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Ad Colen Quartet

Ad Colen - compositions - tenor en sopranosaxophone
Gé Bijvoet - piano
Wiro Mahieu - doublebass
Yonga Sun - drums

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Free’
The new CD of the Ad Colen Quartet is out.
The desire to play in a way that is ‘free’.
In his compositions, Ad Colen is always after narrative melodies, various harmonies and wonderfully crazy grooves.
New forms of improvisation have been integrated in the structure of the composition in a variety of ways.
To make this CD ‘Free’ the Ad Colen Quartet has sought inspiration in everything that was going on around them, unblinkered and without restrictive thoughts. A free way of playing, resulting in a wonderful outcome.

Things are going well as far as Dutch jazz is concerned. The Ad Colen Quartet is a good example of this. This quartet has produced four magnificent CDs within the space of a couple of years. CDs full of compositions full of ambiance, dynamic solo’s and volcanic grooves, where the individual input of all musicians plays a decisive role.
Starting from September of 2008, Ad Colen got to work with a new quartet. After spending a decade playing with fantastic musicians such as Michiel Borstlap, Rob van Bavel, Erik Robaard, Chris Strik and Jasper van Hulten he started to feel the need to explore a new type of collaboration.
Gé Bijvoet (winner of the soloist award at the NOS Meervaart Jazz Festival), an idiosyncratic piano player who always gives his own ‘touch’ to any music, was an obvious choice. He was joined by Wiro Mahieu, (winner of the Wessel Ilcken prize) one of the best contra bass players in the Netherlands, excelling through his groove, technique and lyrical sound. Yonga Sun (winner of the Dutch Jazz Competition), who combines incredible creativity and groove, was the perfect fit. These musicians were perfectly attuned to each other from their very first rehearsal, and they were able to achieve the exact touch that Ad Colen was trying to achieve with his music.
Not surprisingly, music reviewers have greeted the CD with great enthusiasm.
From the North Sea Jazz festival, to several tours and master classes in Indonesia, and performances at home and abroad: the music of the Ad Colen Quartet has definitely found its place in the international world of jazz.

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'Free' New !!

To be released in june 2009Production Ad Colen Sweet BriarMusic

Recorded in Wisseloordstudios by Tijmen Zinkhaan on 26 en 27 januari 2009 Mixed atGalaxystudios (B) by Tijmen Zinkhaan Mastered by Darius van Helfteren