New Dutch Swing: Amsterdam's Improvised Music

As Kevin Whitehead tells it in his classic 1998 study New Dutch Swing, on Amsterdam's jazz and improvising scene, genre-blurring is business as usual; even the Netherlands' leading composer Louis Andriessen played the blues. Improvisers and new music composers collaborate and influence each other's sounds; jazz and classical musicians team up in hybrid ensembles like the ICP Orchestra and Orkest de Volharding that disregard stylistic borders. Charles Ives, Thelonious Monk, game pieces and m...