Instant Composers Pool: Complete Boxed Catalogue

Rating: ★★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Tobias Delius (ts, cl)
Gerard Van Der Vlist (t)
Maurice Horsthuis (vla)
Maartje Ten Hoorn (vln)
Thomas Lehn (analogue syn)
Eric Dolphy (as, arr)
Sean Bergin (as, ts)
Derek Bailey (g)
Wessel Dekker (cond)
Bert Koppelaar (tb)
Steve Beresford (p, elec, objects)
Anthony Braxton
Ab Baars (cl, ts)
Jacques Schols (b)
Gilius Van Bergeijk (hb)
Leo Borgart (acc)
Gianluigi Trovesi (pic, alto-cl)
Peter Brötzmann (ts)
Renato Geremia (ts, ss, vl)
Steve McCall (perc)
Wolter Wierbos (tb)
Gunter Hampel (bcl, vib, f)
Ernst Glerum (b)
Rien De Reede (fl)
Anthony Braxton (sno, as, bb, cbsx, cbcl)
Tristan Honsinger (clo)
George Lewis (tb, sou)
Han Bennink (d, bass d, small and large to
Giancarlo Schiaffini (tb)
Alan Silva (b)
Misha Mengelberg (p)
Rob Du Bois (p, org, glockenspiel)
Arjen Gorter (b)
Toon De Gouw (t)
Willem Van Regteren Altena (b)
Jeanne Lee
Alessandra Patrucco (v)
Baldo Maestri (as, ss)
Paul Termos (as)
Ernst Reijseger (clo)
Joe Williamson (b)
Garrett List (trom)
Mary Oliver (vn, vla)
Larry Fishkind (tb)
Dudu Pukwana (as, whistle)
Evert Hekkema (t)
Ank Sillem (pic, fl)
Evan Parker (ts)
Enrico Rava (tp)
Paul Rutherford (tb)
Joep Maessen (tb)
Wim Overgaauw (g)
Steve Lacy (ss, gong)
Michael Moore (cl, as)
Willem Breuker (ss, as, ts, E-flat cl, bcl)
Tonny Pels-Waarlé (mandolin)
Peter Bennink (as, sno)
Eileen Standley (v)
Toshinori Kondo (t)
Eugenio Colombo (as, fl)
Ab Van Der Molen (as, cla, vln)
Rozemarie Heggen (b)
Michel Waisvisz (crackle box)
John Tchicai (as)
Keshavan Maslak (ts)

Label:

Buzz (608917455427)/(ICP1275-1)

May/2013

Media Format:

608917455427/ICP1275-1

RecordDate:

1964 - 2009

Formed by drummer Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg in 1967, just a few months after Brötzmann released his epochal debut For Adolphe Sax, and three years before the first release on Evan Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus label, the Instant Composers Pool is one of the unassailable keystones of European improv. Though it sprang from the same Fluxus-inspired urge to rip up the rule book, right from the start, the Dutch collective was characterised by a mischievous twinkle largely missing in its peers – a sensibility that runs through this enormous 52-disc box-set of the label's entire back catalogue. While in UK improv, playing a blues would have been unthinkable, for Bennink and co it was just another strategy: take a listen to Extension, an album recorded by the 12-piece ICP Orchestra in 1984, which presents an entire programme of jumping bop by the overlooked pianist Herbie Nichols. A sense of the absurd is never far away, as on Misha Mengelberg's 1972 duet with his pet parrot, Eeko – taken from the album ICP015, which also features an archival 1964 recording of Bennink and Mengelberg swinging hard with Eric Dolphy. In fact, cast your eye over that list of contributors above – including John Tchicai, Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava and Toshinori Kondo – and you'll have some idea of the global network of artists that, at one time or another, worked under the ICP umbrella. Have no doubt; this incredible compendium is a historical artefact that will resonate for many years to come.

Complete Boxed Catalogue

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