Scene: Amsterdam Avant-Garde, 1980s-2000s
By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor
Amsterdam - Holland's cultural capital and a European crossroads - has a jazz/improvising/composition scene unlike any other. Music has flowed freely across genre lines for so long, conceptual hybrids are second nature. So the canal city gives us classical composers like Louis Andriessen, influenced by minimalist repetitions and boogie-woogie syncopations, and political punks the Ex, who work with Ethiopian elders and acoustic improvisers whose rude sounds reinforce their own. The Amsterdam String Trio mixed chamber… more »