ICP Orchestra
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Amsterdam's Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: 58 years of putting sticks in the spokes of all wheels.
Amsterdam's Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: 58 years of putting sticks in the spokes of all wheels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpqz...
In August 1977 ICP put on a festival for their 10-year anniversary and invited their friends and collaborators from FMP in Berlin and Incus in London, Gérard Rouy was there and has assembled and narrated this beautiful photoessay.
In August 1977 ICP put on a festival for their 10-year anniversary and invited their friends and collaborators from FMP in Berlin and Incus in London, Gérard Rouy was there and has assembled and narrated this beautiful photoessay.
A Day in the Countryside: ICP 10-year jubileum in Uithoorn, 1977.
YouTube video by ICP Orchestra
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October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In August 1977 ICP put on a festival for their 10-year anniversary and invited their friends and collaborators from FMP in Berlin and Incus in London, Gérard Rouy was there and has assembled and narrated this beautiful photoessay.
In August 1977 ICP put on a festival for their 10-year anniversary and invited their friends and collaborators from FMP in Berlin and Incus in London, Gérard Rouy was there and has assembled and narrated this beautiful photoessay.
Freshly unearthed video of Han and Misha live in Groningen, NL, January 1977, a rare look at the instrument-switching/sharing days when both Misha and Han would play piano and violin and whatever else was within reach:
youtu.be/FU2N9sGBFP0?...
youtu.be/FU2N9sGBFP0?...
Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg, Live 1977.
YouTube video by ICP Orchestra
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October 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Freshly unearthed video of Han and Misha live in Groningen, NL, January 1977, a rare look at the instrument-switching/sharing days when both Misha and Han would play piano and violin and whatever else was within reach:
youtu.be/FU2N9sGBFP0?...
youtu.be/FU2N9sGBFP0?...
hey all, two things: 1) it's Bandcamp Friday, and we have a new release out: icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
2) tonight's sold-out show at De Pletterij in Haarlem is being simulcast from the Pletterij website, showtime is 20:00 NL time (GMT + 2), link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uO...
2) tonight's sold-out show at De Pletterij in Haarlem is being simulcast from the Pletterij website, showtime is 20:00 NL time (GMT + 2), link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uO...
ICP Orchestra: Live in Salzburg 1988 (ICP214, 2025), by ICP Orchestra
14 track album
icporchestra.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
hey all, two things: 1) it's Bandcamp Friday, and we have a new release out: icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
2) tonight's sold-out show at De Pletterij in Haarlem is being simulcast from the Pletterij website, showtime is 20:00 NL time (GMT + 2), link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uO...
2) tonight's sold-out show at De Pletterij in Haarlem is being simulcast from the Pletterij website, showtime is 20:00 NL time (GMT + 2), link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uO...
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Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. This time: Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials. In stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
So Watt: Derek Bailey's On the Edge – Improvisation in Music | Barbican
A rare chance to see Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation and invention in music – screening in full, in stereo and across a single afternoon.
www.barbican.org.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. This time: Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials. In stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Also, tomorrow for #bandcampfriday we're going to be making our entire digital discography available (all 50 releases) for the grand and totally arbitrary price of €216.50....but not til tomorrow!
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Also, tomorrow for #bandcampfriday we're going to be making our entire digital discography available (all 50 releases) for the grand and totally arbitrary price of €216.50....but not til tomorrow!
For your #bandcampfriday consideration: ICP Orchestra's 2004 release "Aan & Uit" (if you can wait til tomorrow to purchase then Bandcamp will waive their standard commission):
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
ICP Orchestra: Aan & Uit (ICP042, 2004), by ICP Orchestra
18 track album
icporchestra.bandcamp.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
For your #bandcampfriday consideration: ICP Orchestra's 2004 release "Aan & Uit" (if you can wait til tomorrow to purchase then Bandcamp will waive their standard commission):
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
This Friday (29 August), at Amsterdam's historic Theater de Roode Bioscoop: MISHA'S MOMENTS, featuring Oscar Jan Hoogland with Jannes Deurvorst (1st set), followed by Guus and Wim Janssen (2nd set), please come celebrate the music of #mishamengelberg with us:
www.roodebioscoop.nl/mishas-momen...
www.roodebioscoop.nl/mishas-momen...
Misha's moments | Hoogland Deurvorst / Guus en Wim Janssen | Theater De Roode Bioscoop
www.roodebioscoop.nl
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This Friday (29 August), at Amsterdam's historic Theater de Roode Bioscoop: MISHA'S MOMENTS, featuring Oscar Jan Hoogland with Jannes Deurvorst (1st set), followed by Guus and Wim Janssen (2nd set), please come celebrate the music of #mishamengelberg with us:
www.roodebioscoop.nl/mishas-momen...
www.roodebioscoop.nl/mishas-momen...
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hey everyone, we're going to be releasing this 1987 album on ICP Orchestra's bandcamp page in a couple of days (for #bandcampfriday), but this is also probably your last chance to own it on COMPACT DISC (!!!), we found a couple of boxes squirrelled away:
www.subdist.com/shop/p/icp-026
www.subdist.com/shop/p/icp-026
ICP 026: Two Programs: The ICP Orchestra Performs Nichols/Monk — Subterranean Distribution
ICP ORCHESTRA Nichols program: Steve Lacy soprano sax Michael Moore alto sax Sean Bergin alto sax Paul Termos alto sax Toon de Gouw trumpet Wolter Wierbos trombone Garret List trombone...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
hey everyone, we're going to be releasing this 1987 album on ICP Orchestra's bandcamp page in a couple of days (for #bandcampfriday), but this is also probably your last chance to own it on COMPACT DISC (!!!), we found a couple of boxes squirrelled away:
www.subdist.com/shop/p/icp-026
www.subdist.com/shop/p/icp-026
brand new ICP Orchestra from Misha's 90th birthday celebration last month: 2 sets, almost 120 minutes of music:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
#mishamengelberg #hanbennink #michaelmoore #abbaars #tobiasdelius #maryoliver #guusjanssen #haraldaustbo #joostbuis #ernstglerum #thomasheberer
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
#mishamengelberg #hanbennink #michaelmoore #abbaars #tobiasdelius #maryoliver #guusjanssen #haraldaustbo #joostbuis #ernstglerum #thomasheberer
ICP Orchestra: HAPPY BIRTHDAY -> NAAR ZEE Z.O.Z. (ICP213, 2025), by ICP Orchestra
26 track album
icporchestra.bandcamp.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
brand new ICP Orchestra from Misha's 90th birthday celebration last month: 2 sets, almost 120 minutes of music:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
#mishamengelberg #hanbennink #michaelmoore #abbaars #tobiasdelius #maryoliver #guusjanssen #haraldaustbo #joostbuis #ernstglerum #thomasheberer
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp-or...
#mishamengelberg #hanbennink #michaelmoore #abbaars #tobiasdelius #maryoliver #guusjanssen #haraldaustbo #joostbuis #ernstglerum #thomasheberer
all leads welcome :)
Hey there #jazzsky and #jazz people: as part of digitizing the #mishamengelberg archive, we're trying to identify the name of this Japanese jazz magazine, any thoughts or tips are totally welcome. We think the interviewer is Kunihiko Yamashita, but that's all we have so far 🙏
July 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
all leads welcome :)
June 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Misha Mengelberg (1935-2017) was born on this day in Kyiv, Ukraine, we are celebrating tonight with an ICP Orchestra performance at Amsterdam's Bimhuis, hope to see some of you there:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/no-ide...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/no-ide...
June 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Misha Mengelberg (1935-2017) was born on this day in Kyiv, Ukraine, we are celebrating tonight with an ICP Orchestra performance at Amsterdam's Bimhuis, hope to see some of you there:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/no-ide...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/no-ide...
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Afternoon re-up: Anthony Braxton turns 80 today and to celebrate, my label has just put out 6 hours of previously unreleased live music from 1985 with Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway. Get yourself one.
Happy 80th birthday to the legendary Anthony Braxton! Burning Ambulance is proud to release QUARTET (ENGLAND) 1985, a set of four complete concerts, exclusively on Bandcamp! (Each show is available individually, too.)
anthonybraxton-bam.bandcamp.com/album/quarte...
anthonybraxton-bam.bandcamp.com/album/quarte...
June 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Afternoon re-up: Anthony Braxton turns 80 today and to celebrate, my label has just put out 6 hours of previously unreleased live music from 1985 with Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway. Get yourself one.
TONIGHT (27 May 2025): MISHA KOSMOS festival 2025 featuring the music of #MishaMengelberg kicks off at Splendor Amsterdam, presented by Michael Moore:
www.splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/11...
www.splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/11...
Canto Delle Balene / Dal Niente al Dente - Splendor
Midden in het centrum van Amsterdam vind je Splendor: meer dan 10 jaar geleden verzonnen en opgericht door 50 muzikanten die behoefte hadden aan een eigen, onafhankelijke plek om te verzinnen, maken, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
TONIGHT (27 May 2025): MISHA KOSMOS festival 2025 featuring the music of #MishaMengelberg kicks off at Splendor Amsterdam, presented by Michael Moore:
www.splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/11...
www.splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/11...
a very nice review of our recent 2025 release Rite of Spring by our old friend Abe Goldstien:
papatamusredux.com/2025/05/23/r...
papatamusredux.com/2025/05/23/r...
Roelofs, Janssen & Bennink: Rite of Spring
ICP (RELEASED MAY 8, 2025) Many musicians play Thelonius Monk compositions, but there are only a handful that have the chutzpah to play around with Monk compositions and get away with it! Bas…
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May 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
a very nice review of our recent 2025 release Rite of Spring by our old friend Abe Goldstien:
papatamusredux.com/2025/05/23/r...
papatamusredux.com/2025/05/23/r...
We are in the process of digitizing Misha’s archive and trying to determine who took these wonderfully unexpected photos of Misha being a tourist in what we can only assume is…Chicago? #mishamengelberg
May 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We are in the process of digitizing Misha’s archive and trying to determine who took these wonderfully unexpected photos of Misha being a tourist in what we can only assume is…Chicago? #mishamengelberg
Stealing a quote from @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social...
MISHA KOSMOS Festival — Instant Composers Pool
“What made Mengelberg Mengelberg wasn’t playing with respect for the text or with swinging bass and drums. What made him a force of nature was his fearless and faultless sense of the absurd.” - Ethan ...
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May 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Stealing a quote from @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social...
We have a new #bandcamp release today: Joris Roelofs + Guus Janssen + Han Bennink: Rite of Spring. Three virtuosos having fun with Monk, Ellington, and some more unexpected classics:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/rite-o...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/rite-o...
Rite of Spring (2025), by Joris Roelofs + Guus Janssen + Han Bennink
11 track album
icporchestra.bandcamp.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We have a new #bandcamp release today: Joris Roelofs + Guus Janssen + Han Bennink: Rite of Spring. Three virtuosos having fun with Monk, Ellington, and some more unexpected classics:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/rite-o...
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/rite-o...
more ICP-related #bandcampfriday....
Misha Mengelberg / Sabu Toyozumi - The Analects Of Confucius
Recorded on 21st October, 2000 at Aoshima Hall, Shizuoka City, Japan
Released May 2, 2025
nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-an...
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Recorded on 21st October, 2000 at Aoshima Hall, Shizuoka City, Japan
Released May 2, 2025
nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-an...
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May 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
more ICP-related #bandcampfriday....
gutenmorgen allemaal, today's ICP-related #bandcampfriday release is Practically Married: Live in Berlin
practicallymarried.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
practicallymarried.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
Live in Berlin, by Practically Married with Tobias Delius and Han Bennink
9 track album
practicallymarried.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
gutenmorgen allemaal, today's ICP-related #bandcampfriday release is Practically Married: Live in Berlin
practicallymarried.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
practicallymarried.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ya...
Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg,
Arjen Gorter, Han Bennink.
Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg,
Arjen Gorter, Han Bennink.
Steve Lacy Quintet 1984 Ravenna
YouTube video by brecker
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April 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ya...
Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg,
Arjen Gorter, Han Bennink.
Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg,
Arjen Gorter, Han Bennink.
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"Tablas, mringdam, balafons, gongs. I had a whole van full of that shit. Bells from everywhere. Now...I just like to go like Marcel Duchamp, only use a couple of sticks or a matchbox with two matches, and still play the shit out of it."
Happy Birthday Han Bennink
April 17, 1942
Happy Birthday Han Bennink
April 17, 1942
April 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"Tablas, mringdam, balafons, gongs. I had a whole van full of that shit. Bells from everywhere. Now...I just like to go like Marcel Duchamp, only use a couple of sticks or a matchbox with two matches, and still play the shit out of it."
Happy Birthday Han Bennink
April 17, 1942
Happy Birthday Han Bennink
April 17, 1942
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Han Bennink - Collages
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Han Bennink - Collages