ICP Orchestra

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Suicide Hotline 00:00 Tools
Four In One 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy 00:00 Tools
In My Room 00:00 Tools
C.P.K.'s 00:00 Tools
The Night of the 44 00:00 Tools
Walk into the Darkness 00:00 Tools
Truly Alone 00:00 Tools
Write Down Exactly 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross 00:00 Tools
Bowling Balls 00:00 Tools
Burning Up 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Hornin' In 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 05:14 Tools
Change Of Season 00:00 Tools
24 00:00 Tools
Basehead Attack 00:00 Tools
Sedatives 00:00 Tools
52+ 00:00 Tools
The Witch 00:00 Tools
Spinning Song 00:00 Tools
Precise Dimensions and Weight 00:00 Tools
Everday I Die 00:00 Tools
Houseparty Starting 00:00 Tools
Back to Lippiza 00:00 Tools
2300 Skidoo 00:00 Tools
Sparkling 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso 00:00 Tools
Manic Depressive 00:00 Tools
Ham on Air 00:00 Tools
Angels Falling 00:00 Tools
A la Russe 00:00 Tools
Real Underground Baby 00:00 Tools
Wild Turkey 00:00 Tools
Travel Agent 00:00 Tools
A Close Encounter With Charles's Country Band 00:00 Tools
Hand and Checked Luggage 00:00 Tools
Hangover Triangle 00:00 Tools
Step Tempest 00:00 Tools
Oh My Deer! 00:00 Tools
De Sprong, O Romantiek der Hazen 00:00 Tools
The Lepaerd 00:00 Tools
Oh My Dog! 00:00 Tools
Wake-Up Call 00:00 Tools
Happy Dreams 00:00 Tools
Barbaric 00:00 Tools
Brozziman 00:00 Tools
Monsters Ball 00:00 Tools
Va-et-vient 00:00 Tools
Tijd voor de Quadrille 00:00 Tools
Opa 00:00 Tools
Ever Never 00:00 Tools
Sumptious 00:00 Tools
Tuinhek 00:00 Tools
A beautiful day 00:00 Tools
Under the Big Top 00:00 Tools
Flute 00:00 Tools
And have a Picnic 00:00 Tools
Let's go to the river 00:00 Tools
BospaaDJe Konijnehol 1 00:00 Tools
Islay Malt Jetterburg 00:00 Tools
Busy Beaver 00:00 Tools
Let's climb a hill 00:00 Tools
Hamami 00:00 Tools
Kneushoorn 00:00 Tools
Out Back/Chickadee 00:00 Tools
Let's go home before 00:00 Tools
Sonnet in search of a Moor 00:00 Tools
Zing Zang Zaterdag 00:00 Tools
Rollo I 00:00 Tools
Bean 00:00 Tools
Mitrab 00:00 Tools
Mixed Caravan 00:00 Tools
Peer's Country Song 00:00 Tools
Ktoel 00:00 Tools
The sparrows start waving their pyjamas 00:00 Tools
Interplay 00:00 Tools
Erma 00:00 Tools
Rumboon 00:00 Tools
Kroket 00:00 Tools
Het Zoemen 00:00 Tools
Peer's Counting Song 00:00 Tools
Weer is een dag voorbij 00:00 Tools
Mistrimar 00:00 Tools
No Idea 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Kafel 00:00 Tools
Niet Zus, Maar Zo 00:00 Tools
Zombie Zua 00:00 Tools
Kehang 00:00 Tools
Kwela P'Kwana 00:00 Tools
Waar Bleef Je? 00:00 Tools
Abtomi 00:00 Tools
Salute to Fujisawa Suko 00:00 Tools
kachel 00:00 Tools
Een Gewelfde Rugleuning 00:00 Tools
Kraaloog 00:00 Tools
Picnic: Let's Go To The River 00:00 Tools
Group Composing 1 00:00 Tools
Picnic: Play Some Badminton 00:00 Tools
De Bol Een Waaier 00:00 Tools
Mooche Mix 00:00 Tools
Vieze En Lekkere Lucht 00:00 Tools
Vergezel De Steen Omhoog 00:00 Tools
Kasten En Boeken 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia 1 00:00 Tools
Next Subject 00:00 Tools
Worp En Wederworp 00:00 Tools
Happy Go Lucky Local Mix 00:00 Tools
Picnic: And Have A Picnic 00:00 Tools
Play Some Batminton 00:00 Tools
Play some badminton 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia 3 00:00 Tools
Where Is The Police 00:00 Tools
Moodmixes Indigo 00:00 Tools
De Sprong, O Romantiiek Der Hazen 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia 2 00:00 Tools
Group Composing 2 00:00 Tools
Niet Zus , Maar Zo 00:00 Tools
Picnic: Let's Go Home Before 00:00 Tools
Picnic: A Beautiful Day 00:00 Tools
Picnic: The Sparrows Start Waving Their Pyjamas 00:00 Tools
Bospaadje Konijnenhol I 00:00 Tools
A Bit Nervous Jealous? Me? 00:00 Tools
Kwela: Hap 00:00 Tools
Habanera 00:00 Tools
Groei Kommer Drafjes Uur 00:00 Tools
Mix Solitude 00:00 Tools
12 Bars 00:00 Tools
Group Composing Part 1 00:00 Tools
Rollo II 00:00 Tools
Kwela: Welkom 00:00 Tools
Rollo 5 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
Carnaval 00:00 Tools
Roll I 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia suite - 1 00:00 Tools
Kwela: Briefkaart 00:00 Tools
Waar Bleef Je ? 00:00 Tools
Kwela: Maurits 00:00 Tools
Zitten en Liggen 00:00 Tools
Group Composing Part 2 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - Mooche Mix 00:00 Tools
Terpsichore 00:00 Tools
Op Naar De Mooche 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - Mixed Caravan 00:00 Tools
Kwela: Boodschappen 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - Moodmix Indigo 00:00 Tools
House Party Starting 00:00 Tools
Out Back / Chickadee 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mix 00:00 Tools
Kale Plekken 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - Happy Go Lucky Local Mix 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - Zitten En Liggen 00:00 Tools
Het Kraken 00:00 Tools
Where Is The Police? 00:00 Tools
Met 00:00 Tools
Bleekgezicht 00:00 Tools
A Little Max 00:00 Tools
Bolly Wolly 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - Een Gewelfde Rugleuning 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - Vondsten In Het Binnenwerk 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia (suite part 1) 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia Suite 00:00 Tools
Browse Of Morning 00:00 Tools
Der Jofelen Pels Slip 00:00 Tools
Pilaren/Twee Lijnen 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - It Don't Mix 00:00 Tools
Purple 00:00 Tools
Japan-Japon 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix - Mix Solitude 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - Kale Plekken 00:00 Tools
Everyday I Die 00:00 Tools
Vondsten In Het Binnenwerk 00:00 Tools
My Baby Has Gone to the Schouwburg 00:00 Tools
Jacky-Ing 00:00 Tools
Oh my Deer 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia suite - 2 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - De Poezenkant 00:00 Tools
Meatcleaver 00:00 Tools
Bospaadje Konijnehol 2 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa - Het Kraken 00:00 Tools
Chicken Pluckin Huntin [Remix] 00:00 Tools
JUMP ITALIANO 00:00 Tools
Oorwurm 00:00 Tools
Die Berge Schützen die Heimat 00:00 Tools
Rondo 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite: Next Subject 00:00 Tools
Op Naar Aan/Uit 00:00 Tools
Reef 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite - 1. A Bit Nervous, Jealous? Me? 00:00 Tools
Oh my Dog 00:00 Tools
Before Og 15 Kir 00:00 Tools
Sendai 00:00 Tools
Bospaadje Konijnenhol II 00:00 Tools
Side A 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia suite - 3 00:00 Tools
Rollo 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia Suite, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Fragments-a 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: moodmixes indigo 00:00 Tools
Southwest Mash-Up [Southwest Songs vs Southwest Voodoo] 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite 00:00 Tools
Psalm 00:00 Tools
Adebar der Geheimnisvolle 00:00 Tools
Piano Distance 00:00 Tools
Jaloers? Ik? 00:00 Tools
Rollo 2 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite - 2. Next Subject 00:00 Tools
Lavoro/Moten Swing 00:00 Tools
De Poezenkrant 00:00 Tools
Blue chopsticks 00:00 Tools
Restless in Pieces 00:00 Tools
A Close Encounter with Charles's Country B 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia (suite part 2) 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia Suite, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
VIII 00:00 Tools
III 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: happy go lucky local mix 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: mixed caravan 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: mooche mix 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
Blue Fish 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-A Beautiful Day 00:00 Tools
Song of the Lusitanian Bully II 00:00 Tools
Improvisation 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia (suite part 3) 00:00 Tools
Criss-Cross 00:00 Tools
De Sprong O Romentiek der Hazen 00:00 Tools
Serendipity 00:00 Tools
De Poezenkant 00:00 Tools
Jubilee Varia Suite, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
V 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: it don't mix 00:00 Tools
Ellington Mix: mix solitude 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: De Poezenkant 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun, West of The Moon 00:00 Tools
Mooche Mix -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
04. fragments-d 00:00 Tools
Side B 00:00 Tools
Salute to Fujisawa Shukoh 00:00 Tools
De Sprong.O Romantiek Der Haze 00:00 Tools
Nineteen Voices 00:00 Tools
VI 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite: A Bit Nervous, Jealous, Me? 00:00 Tools
IV 00:00 Tools
IX 00:00 Tools
Fragments-j 00:00 Tools
Kwik, Kwek, Kwak 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: Zitten en Liggen 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: Het Kraken 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: Kale Plekken 00:00 Tools
Polizei 00:00 Tools
Impro Twee 00:00 Tools
Moodmixes Indigo -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
Super Market/Su Su Ven a Nan 00:00 Tools
Groupcomposing 2 00:00 Tools
Groupcomposing 1 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Barbaric 00:00 Tools
Free & Equal (Leftfield Mix) 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite - Next Subject 00:00 Tools
Meat Cleaver 00:00 Tools
05. fragments-e 00:00 Tools
10. fragments-j 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-The sparrows start waving their pyjamas 00:00 Tools
Fragments-c 00:00 Tools
Fragments-b 00:00 Tools
Fragments-h 00:00 Tools
Fragments-d 00:00 Tools
II 00:00 Tools
Happ Dreams 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: Vondsten in het Binnenwerk 00:00 Tools
De Purperen Sofa: Een Gewelfde Rugleuning 00:00 Tools
Misha, pass the donkey 00:00 Tools
Ludwig's Blue Note 00:00 Tools
Impro Een 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Waar Bleef Je 00:00 Tools
Groupcomposing, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Locomotive 00:00 Tools
anatole 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Back To Lippiza 00:00 Tools
02. fragments-b 00:00 Tools
Samba Zombie 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Opa 00:00 Tools
Lady Sings The Blues 00:00 Tools
03. fragments-c 00:00 Tools
07. fragments-g 00:00 Tools
Misha, Pass The Monkey 00:00 Tools
Introduction and First Entrance of the Horsemen 00:00 Tools
Japan Japon 00:00 Tools
Fragments-g 00:00 Tools
Fragments-f 00:00 Tools
Fragments-i 00:00 Tools
Fragments-e 00:00 Tools
Desiderio 00:00 Tools
Echo 00:00 Tools
Mixed Caravan -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
In the middle of nowhere 00:00 Tools
Ansage 00:00 Tools
Breating White 00:00 Tools
Happy Go Lucky Local Mix -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
Mix Solitude -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
Groupcomposing, Part 1 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mix -- Ellington Mix 00:00 Tools
STEIGERPIJP 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Ever Never 00:00 Tools
Grusse Aus Berchtesgaden 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Appie 00:00 Tools
Touches 00:00 Tools
08. fragments-h 00:00 Tools
Lass Mich Nicht Weinen IV 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Suite - A Bit Nervous; Jealous? Me? 00:00 Tools
06. fragments-f 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Tijd voor de Quadrille 00:00 Tools
09. fragments-i 00:00 Tools
Criss Cross (Thelonious Monk 00:00 Tools
Happy Go Lucky Local 00:00 Tools
Ktoel (Misha Mengelberg) 04:02 Tools
The Leper 00:00 Tools
X 00:00 Tools
K-Stukken: Kroket 00:00 Tools
Epiloog: Zing Zang Zaterdag 00:00 Tools
Rainopus 00:00 Tools
In Memoriam Johnny Hodges 00:00 Tools
La Madelon 00:00 Tools
Rock the Dead Body Man [Mash Up] 00:00 Tools
I Forgot Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Rumbone 00:00 Tools
Spinazi / Trata Birata 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Let's Climb A Hill 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-And Have A Picnic 00:00 Tools
Toddling 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Play some badminton 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Va-Et-Vient 00:00 Tools
C.E.I.: Where The Sunflowers Grow, Rambling Rake, Yon Horizon 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Let's go to the river 00:00 Tools
Rear / Murmurs 00:00 Tools
Zitten en Liggen -- De Purperen Sofa 00:00 Tools
Picnic Suite-Tuinhek 00:00 Tools
08 00:00 Tools
De Sprong, O Romantiek der Hazen (The Jump, Oh Romantic of the Hares) 00:00 Tools
02 00:00 Tools
Five Songs From The Lusitanian Bully 00:00 Tools
Tussen De Dijen Van 'n Mokkel 00:00 Tools
Aan/Uit 00:00 Tools
Het Kraken -- De Purperen Sofa 00:00 Tools
07 00:00 Tools
Let's go to the tiver 00:00 Tools
Brözziman 00:00 Tools
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Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is an independent Dutch jazz and improvised music label and orchestra. Founded in 1967, the label takes its name from the notion that improvisation is "instant composition". The ICP label has published more than 50 releases to date, with most of its releases featuring the ICP Orchestra and its members. The Amsterdam-based group is a blend of European improvised music, jazz and the Dutch irreverent attitude, in general, which all combine into a highly sophisticated yet enjoyable music that has astonished and impressed music lovers for several decades. ICP was founded as a label and group concept in the late '60s when reedist Willem Breuker and drummer Han Bennink self-released a duo recording on a label they named ICP. Fellow Dutch musician and collaborator, pianist Misha Mengelberg became the third equal member of ICP, having recently come up with the term "instant composing" to use in "improvising's" stead. The name ICP quickly became an umbrella for a wide variety of line-ups during its first decade of existence. It wasn't too long before these groups included either Breuker or Mengelberg but not both, as the two musicians had clashing opinions on approaches to live performance, what ICP should be and many other musical issues. Breuker wanted tunes and rehearsals, Mengelberg wanted instant composing. Breuker wanted more people admitted who would have equal voting rights, Mengelberg wanted the core three members to have final say. Both also had different takes on music theater, which ICP got involved in the late '60s. So, both led their own ICP gigs, with Bennink (who didn't choose sides) performing in both, although more often with Mengelberg. Breuker's group included such musicians as bassist Maarten Altena, trombonist Willem van Manen, saxophonist Peter Bennink (Han's younger brother), pianist Leo Cuypers and keyboardist Michel Waisvisz. Mengelberg and Bennink first had a trio with the frequently-visiting British saxophonist Evan Parker starting in 1969, followed by a quartet line-up with reedsman John Tchicai and guitarist Derek Bailey, which had a brief tour and two recordings from 1970-71, including a classic of European improvisation, Fragments. Months before this, the core duo and Parker were joined by Bailey, saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, trombonist Paul Rutherford and Peter Bennink to record a septet album, Groupcomposing (1971). During this time, Mengelberg and Bennink also recorded an untitled duo for the ICP label. By 1973, the inevitable split came and musicians went with one or the other, resulting in Breuker's still-thriving theatrical and fun-loving Willem Breuker Kollektief, while Mengelberg continued with the name ICP, which was, again, a continuously changing line-up for several years, during which only Misha, Han Bennink and American tubist Larry Fishkind were mainstays. Rotating members included Brotzmann, Tchicai, cellist Tristan Honsinger, saxophonist Keshavan Maslak, trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Paul Termos. The first recording of ICP in its later, larger size came in early 1977, as ICP-Tentet in Berlin (SAJ, 1978). The first of the lasting members came three years later, when trombonist Wolter Wierbos joined. Reedsman Michael Moore came on board not too long after, first appearing on Japan Japon (DIW, 1982), as did violist Maurice Horsthuis, who was soon followed by his Amsterdam String Trio bandmates, bassist Ernst Glerum and cellist Ernst Reijseger (Reijseger, Moore and Bennink also formed another group together, the Clusone 3). Horsthuis eventually left (and the violist chair was filled a couple more times before being retired) but Reijseger and Glerum stayed. Due to the larger roster, the "instant composing" tenet shifted slightly to "conducted improvisation." By the 1990s, the band also included saxophonist Ab Baars and trumpeter Thomas Heberer, with Honsinger returning by the mid-'90s. The ICP Orchestra recorded relatively little, but achieved international acclaim for its sophisticated improvisations, ingenious interpretations of landmark composers such as Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and for the band members' extraordinary level of musicianship. ICP Orchestra has recorded tributes to Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols (ICP 026) in 1984 and 1986, respectively. Mengelberg has also led the group in many brilliant (but unrecorded) programs of Duke Ellington's music. In addition to the Monk/Nichols release, and the early '80s DIW Japan Japon, ICP also recorded two volumes of Bodspaadje Konijnehol (Forest Path Rabbithole) from 1989-90 (ICP 028,029). The ICP Orchestra didn't record again until 1997, this time for HatArt, resulting in the critically hailed album Jubilee Varia. The line-up by then consisted of Mengelberg, Moore, Baars, Wierbos, Reijseger, Honsinger, Glerum and Bennink, but by the time the group toured for the album's 1999 release, Reijseger had left the group permanently. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.