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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · 1d

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?...

Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg, Live 1977.

YouTube video by ICP Orchestra

youtu.be

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · 6d

you can watch it back at the same url right now, we think the stuttering was a live thing, let us know if things aren’t resolved!

ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · 9d

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...

ICP Orchestra: Live in Salzburg 1988 (ICP214, 2025), by ICP Orchestra

14 track album

icporchestra.bandcamp.com

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 25d

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...

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

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

ICP Orchestra: Aan & Uit (ICP042, 2004), by ICP Orchestra

18 track album

icporchestra.bandcamp.com

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

Misha's moments | Hoogland Deurvorst / Guus en Wim Janssen | Theater De Roode Bioscoop

www.roodebioscoop.nl

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Aug 17

sorry, we were faked out by Misha's t-shirt, we now have the actual physical photo in our hands and the photographer is Marco Ugolini, sorry for the miscredit!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Aug 1

it's Bandcamp Friday!

icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/two-pr...

Two Programs: The ICP Orchestra Performs Nichols/Monk (ICP026, 1987), by ICP Orchestra

13 track album

icporchestra.bandcamp.com

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marquis_morse @marquismorse.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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...

www.subdist.com

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jul 27

and...it was Tokyo, 1986 :)

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jul 5

I agree that the formatting and house style seem to match KAB more than JAZZ LIFE at this point, i haven't found a satisfying list of back issues for either of them at this point...still looking....

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jul 5

Heyy, thank you very much for your detectivizing! we will be reunited with our laptop this afternoon and will see what we can dig up about JAZZ LIFE…we do know about Yamashita’s work with Sakamoto…in any case, more soon, thanks again!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

ICP Orchestra: HAPPY BIRTHDAY -> NAAR ZEE Z.O.Z. (ICP213, 2025), by ICP Orchestra

26 track album

icporchestra.bandcamp.com

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jul 1

all leads welcome :)

marquis_morse @marquismorse.bsky.social · Jul 1

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 🙏

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 13

RIP Louis
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/track/from-t...

#louismoholo

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 11

you're now followed, but if that didn't work email is subdist at gmail dot com...

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 11

go for it!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 11

thanks Roz, nice writing!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 11

thx Jason, that date sounds/looks about right based on the youthful exuberance he's radiating in these photos ;) so far it's a bit of an anomaly in the collection, it seems candid enough to have to have been taken by someone in the band or mgmt but no one recalls taking it...but we'll have a look!

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.

Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway posing at Stonehenge in November 1985

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · Jun 4

hey Roz! are you talking about ICP026? we'll release it on August 1, the next #bandcampfriday....

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · May 27

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...

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, ...

www.splendoramsterdam.com

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ICP Orchestra @icporchestra.bsky.social · May 25

a very nice review of our recent 2025 release Rite of Spring by our old friend Abe Goldstien:

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…

papatamusredux.com

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