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JORRIT DIJKSTRA’S PORCHBONE

«PorchBone»
DRIFF

The PorchBone project is an extension of Dutch, Massachusetts-based reed master-composer-eductor Jorrit Dijkstra’s The Porch Trio with double bassist Nate McBride (who also plays in Dijkstra’s The Wahmmies) and drummer-percussionist Eric Rosenthal, which has been active as a free improvisation unit since 2016, and now expanded with three trombonists – Jeb Bishop (of Vandermark 5 and Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet fame who plays in Dijkstra’s Pillow Circles, The Flatlands Collective and The Whammies), Michael Prentky and veteran Bill Lowe (who has played with Muhal Richard Abrams and Henry Threadgill, on bass trombone). Dijkstra composed the music, except the last piece «Warm Valley» by Duke Ellington, and this sextet was recorded at Dimensions Sound in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in January 2023. The album was released by Dijkstra and pianist Pandelis Karayorgis’s Driff Records.

The PorchBone project premiered The Trombatics Suite at the Driff Festival 2021 in Cambridge. Dijkstra’s clever compositions add to the abstract, free-improvised textures of The Porch Trio melodic and orchestral touches with the velvety tones of the trombone section, inspired by the sound worlds of Duke Ellington’s big bands and of Ellington follower, Sun Ra and his Arkestras.

Dijkstra is a Professor at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member of the New England Conservatory in Boston and he explored the music of Steve Lacy with his trans-Atlantic spetet The Whammies. His compositions for PorchBone play wisely with the legacy of trombones in jazz in Ellington’s Big Bands, free jazz and free improvisation, in spirit and sound, and suggest an organic and playful development of his melodic themes, especially on the extended pieces «Five into Four» and «Six into Nine». Dijkstra’s playing of the analog electronic wind instrument, lyricon, and the usage of analog electronics inject an otherworldly dimension to the music. Two pieces offer the core trio of Dijkstra. McBride and Rosenthal, with its tight dynamics. The masterful, emotional arrangement of Ellington’s 1940 «Warm Valley» emphasizes Dijkstra’s love of jazz in all its different forms and incarnations.

Eyal Hareuveni

Jorrit Dijkstra (alto saxophone, lyricon, analog electronics), Nate McBride (double bass, electric bass), Eric Rosenthal (drums, percussion), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Michael Prentky (trombone), Bill Lowe (bass trombone)