Jaap Blonk, one of the most highly regarded improvising vocal artists and an important participant in the international improvised music community, will make a rare Seattle appearance, joined by Seattle musicians Bonnie Whiting (percussion), Steph Richards (trumpet), and James Falzone (clarinet/piano).
Lineup
Photographs of Jaap Blonk in good resolution for printing (free of rights):. Photo 1 by Andy Moor (2023) Photo 2 by Gero Sander (2024) Photo 3 by Jazz Explorer (2024) Biographie auf Deutsch Biografie in het Nederlands JAAP BLONK BIOGRAPHY Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies.
Bonnie Whiting (she/her) performs, commissions, and composes new experimental music for percussion. She seeks out projects involving the speaking percussionist, non-traditional notation, improvisation, and interdisciplinary performance. She lives and works in Seattle, WA, where she is Chair of Percussion Studies and the Ruth Sutton Waters Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Music.
Hailed by The New York Times as “boldly inventive” trumpeter and composer Steph Richards bridges jazz and experimental music with multimedia performance. She’s presented at venues worldwide including Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, the Guggenheim, the Park Avenue Armory, the Barbican (UK), Berliner Konzerthaus (Germany), and Bimhuis…
"James Falzone is a tremendously likable, alert, no-nonsense improvising clarinetist.Mr. Falzone’s music is thoughtful and often quiescent . . . but he can play hard to the breaking point." Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
