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Short Takes Belgium<br />
The young reed player also invited British luminaries John Butcher and Paul<br />
Lytton for an evening of solo, duo and trio performances and proved himself<br />
one of the most creative representatives of Belgium’s fertile improvisation<br />
scene. Other remarkable events were the performances by the hardhitting<br />
trio Ballister (saxophone player Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg-<br />
Holm and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love) and one by the brand new<br />
Switchback, a quartet led by Chicagoan reed player Mars Williams, who<br />
turned the band’s first concert into a small triumph that threaded the line<br />
between ferocious free jazz and freely improvised music. Impressive.<br />
And finally, there’s also John Hébert’s Mingus-project, which garnered<br />
quite some attention, even from the mainstream media. More than just a<br />
tribute, Hébert, himself a formidable bass player, actually composed new<br />
music to interact with the legacy of the great bass player. For the concerts,<br />
he played with a bunch of modern heavyweights: Taylor Ho Bynum, Tim<br />
Berne, Ches Smith and Fred Hersch. As for the upcoming few weeks: there’s<br />
a wealth to choose from, as Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran pay us a visit,<br />
Ken Vandermark returns for a solo set and to join The Ex & Brass Unbound.<br />
Plus, there are performances by Fred Van Hove, The Bad Plus, Eddie Prévost<br />
and Ernst Reijseger to look forward to. Punkjazz trio Cactus Truck also plays<br />
a release concert at Ghent’s Resistenza club on April 29th, celebrating its<br />
ferocious new album “Live In USA”, which was recorded during a monster<br />
tour of nearly 40 concerts that took them all over the US at the end of 2012.<br />
Guy Peters<br />
38 | CadenCe Magazine | april May June 2013
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