Kees Oosterwijk
Theo
Hoogstins
Walter Lampe
Zjenja
Guberman
Loet van der
Lee |
The
Quintet "Hoogstens
5", a collaboration of Theo
Hoogstins and saxophone player Kees Oosterwijk, is focussed on playing
the compositions of composer/bass player Theo Hoogstins who was awarded
the composition prize at the ‘The NOS Jazz festival Holland’ in 1987
and in 1990 he was honored for best solo performance at the ‘VPRO Jazz
festival Holland’.
His classical background becomes very clear,
when listening to his compositions, through the use of elements and composition
techniques from modern classical music history, such as dodecaphony, polyrythmic,
bi tonality and Peter Schat's Tone Clock, about which he published an article
in a dutch jazz magazine (Jazzfreak, may/june 1994).
By in this way integrating the western musical
heritage in jazz, a contemporary style comes into existence. This concept
provides a solid fundament for soloist performance by the individual members
of the group.
With lots of enthusiasm and skills, they
use the complete range of improvising techniques from free jazz up to complex
chord changes, thus giving very exciting and varied concerts.
In "Hoogstens 5", Theo
Hoogstins gathered a number
of very expressive musicians:
Together with trumpet player Loet
van der Lee the Australian
piano player Walter
Lampe, Kees
Oosterwijk ontenor
saxophone and the Russian drummer Zjenja
Guberman, he makes a valuable
contribution to contemporary jazz.
With "Hoogstens 5", The Theo Hoogstins Octet
and De Boventoon he already played in most of the famous jazz clubs
and festivals throughout Holland, such as: The BIMhuis (Amsterdam), Sjuhuis(Utrecht),
0-42 (Nijmegen), theater Romein (Leeuwarden). DeSpieghel (Groningen). DJS
(Dordrecht), Hot house (Leiden), Wilhelmina (Eindhoven), Stedelijk Museum
(Amsterdam), the North Sea Jazz Festival (The Hague) and the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw .
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