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ort_Luisenstraße 116_42103 Wuppertal
_Lori Freedman_bcl/cl www.lorifreedman.com
_Ig Henneman_viola www.stichtingwig.com
_Marilyn Lerner_pno www.marilynlerner.com
The Queen Mab Trio LINES of DESCENT november 2006
We would like to inform you of the upcoming tour of the Canadian/Dutch Ensemble the Queen Mab Trio:
The Queen Mab Trio is clarinetist Lori Freedman (Montreal), pianist Marilyn Lerner (Toronto), and violist Ig Henneman (Amsterdam). The trio explores the boundaries and shared space in and between the realms of composed and improvised music, drawing on their own diverse influences of jazz, musique actuelle, rock, new music, early music and 20th century classical music.
The Queen Mab Trio has been creating and performing for almost four years now making concert tours across Canada, the USA and Europe.
In November 2006 they will be touring Europe again, with concerts in Germany, Holland, Italy and a featured appearance at the prestigious Wels Unlimited XX International Festival in Austria and the Izzven Festival in Maribor.
November 2006 - Lines of Descent tour
'Lines of Descent' is a new program consisting of compositions and improvisations emanating from the diversity of the cultural backgrounds of the members of the Queen Mab Trio: Ukraine, Poland, Scotland, Canada and the Netherlands.
CD See Saw (Wig 11, released April 2005)
(…) Queen Mab Trio have a well-defined identity, yet the music is continuously allusive, evoking diverse compositional styles extending from Erik Satie to Louis Andriessen, suggesting awareness too of non-European musical traditions. There’s an indebtedness to free jazz energies and techniques as well as more preconceived jazz structures and conditions of virtuosity.
Julian Cowley, The Wire September 2005
Portland May 13, 2005
(...) a magnificent improvising chamber trio of the highest order. Utilizing ideas and energies from a wide array of musical disciplines they presented an exciting program which was very original and accomplished.
Brad Winter, Cadence July 2005
Seattle May 14, 2005
(_) One of the beauties of this band is that it combines qualities stereotypically associated with women - cooperation, deference and blending in – with ones assigned to men – aggression, structural rigor and a lack of sentimentality. It’s an unbeatable combination.
Paul de Barros, Seattle Times May 2005
Concerts in 2005:
e.a.: Seattle, Jonquières Festival des Musiques de Création, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Calgary Jazz Festival, Vancouver Int. Jazz Fest, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Atlantic Jazz Festival Halifax, COOL Jazz Winnipeg festival, Newfoundland Jazz Festival St Johns, Hothouse - Chicago, Creative Music Guild - Portland, Bimhuis - Amsterdam, ZomerJazzFietstour 2005 Groningen, Floratheater - Delft, Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf , Rote Fabrik Zürich, Rome RAI RadioTre Suite Jazz.
Die Presse
CD See Saw (Wig 11)
(...) Strong themes furnish platforms to launch mobile trio interplay that&Mac226;s both tough and supple, intricate and boldly etched. Musical temperaments coincide in compact blocks of accord and skilfully organised bouts of creative friction, and space is made for inspired flights of individual fancy.
(…) Queen Mab Trio have a well-defined identity, yet the music is continuously allusive, evoking diverse compositional styles extending from Erik Satie to Louis Andriessen, suggesting awareness too of non-European musical traditions. There&Mac226;s an indebtedness to free jazz energies and techniques as well as more preconceived jazz structures and conditions of virtuosity.
Julian Cowley The Wire September 2005
Montreal Festival International de Jazz July 4 2005
(...) Other festival highlights included Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava&Mac226;s radiant Quintet, Zakir Hussain&Mac226;s stunning duets with guitarist John McLaughlin, Randy Weston&Mac226;s trio, and the exquisitely edgy Queen Mab Trio.
Larry Appelbaum Jazznin Japan
20th Vancouver International Jazz Festival June 24 2005
(…) This trio, with improvisation among its formalities, just sparkled, integrating the two concepts into a pliant mature exciting assemblage.
Bill Smith www.vancouverjazz.com September 14 2005
Portland May 13 2005
(...) a magnificent improvising chamber trio of the highest order. Utilizing ideas and energies from a wide array of musical disciplines they presented an exciting program which was very original and accomplished.
Brad Winter Cadence July 2005
Seattle May 14 2005
(…) One of the beauties of this band is that it combines qualities stereotypically associated with women - cooperation, deference and blending in – with ones assigned to men – aggression, structural rigor and a lack of sentimentality. It’s an unbeatable combination.
Paul de Barros Seattle Times May 2005
Ottawa Jazz Festival July 1 2005
(…) At times intensely cerebral, elsewhere more purely visceral, Queen Mab was an interesting counterpoint to Evan Parker’s waves of sound and Roscoe Mitchell’s more Afro-centric quintet performance. A fitting conclusion to a short but intriguing series that has hopefully been successful enough to encourage festival organizers to continue bringing this kind of left-of-centre music to the festival in future years.
John Kelman All About Jazz
CD See Saw
(...) Questions of composition and improvisation aside, what defines See Saw is the level of minute interactions, the devastating passion motivating each note, and the number of ideas per minute, all key traits of Queen Mab’s music.
François Couture All-Music Guide
CD See Saw
(...) Pour évoquer ce qu'on entend là j'aimerais convoquer Gérard de Nerval dans son poème le plus célébre, parlant des "soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée".
Noel Tachet ImproJazz Mai 2005