Album Notes

The Clazz Ensemble is a 'small big band' that performs works on the cutting edge of modern jazz and composed music. In this new Dutch ensemble, founded in 2007, trumpeter-composer Gerard Kleijn and saxophonist-composer Dick de Graaf bring together several generations of top musicians from jazz and classical music to surprise audiences with their adventurous frontier-crossing music written by contemporary composers from modern classical music and from jazz and improvised music.

For its first project 'ADVENTURES' the Clazz Ensemble commissioned compositions from David Dramm, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Maud Sauer, Frank Carlberg, Nico Langenhuijsen, Konrad Koselleck, Michael Moore, Ilja Reijngoud, Dick de Graaf, Marco C. de Bruin, Ig Henneman and Arend Niks.


Saxophones/Clarinets:
Michael Moore, Dick de Graaf, Nils van Haften, Arno Bornkamp

Trumpet/ Flugelhorn:
Martijn de Laat, Frank Anepool, Gerard Kleijn

Trombones: Ilja Reijngoud, Koen Kaptijn

Piano: Kris Goessens,
bass: Paul Berner
Drums: Joost Kesselaar

Clazz strong in the new jazz
( NRC / main Dutch Evening paper)

The Clazz Ensemble is one of the best initiatives in recent years.
I immediately felt like a fish in water when my recent piece 'Pimpin' landed on the music stands of the Clazz Ensemble.
Jacob ter Veldhuis (composer of 'Pimpin' for the Clazz Ensemble)