Hazevoet, Kees - Pleasure
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A few days before the date I learned that Louis Moholo was in town and asked him if he could join in. So, on a Sunday afternoon, at the auditorium of the Stedelijk Museum, we recorded Pleasure. As you can hear, Louis picked it up marvelously. Together with Arjen Gorter, a collaborator of Hazevoet's since school days and the keystone bassist of the emerging Amsterdam scene, Moholo, Kris Wanders (alto sax) and Hazevoet (piano/clarinet/trumpet) coalesced into a terrific free jazz quartet. Their repertoire included terse themes by Hazevoet, and the playing is propelled by Moholo's mighty drumming - a South African amplification of some of the wave-like energy-field ideas Sonny Murray had pioneered - coupled with Hazevoet's walloping piano. Pleasure was issued in an unusually small batch - 250 copies, each with a handsilkscreened cover - but a few made their way into journalists' hands and garnered some glowing reviews. This is the first-ever reissue of this exceedingly rare Dutch free jazz album. [Atavistic]