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Amsterdam, Chicago, and all that jazz

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 11/1/2007

The Dutch jazz scene is as varied as it is quirky. Often celebrated for their humor, improvisers from the Netherlands are actually quite serious when it comes to musicianship and music history. Unlike many of their American contemporaries, however, they celebrate individualism and eschew imitation. While our mainstream jazzers often choose to mine a narrow

 
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