The concert MicroBlues focuses on improvised music in meantone tuning, 31-tone tuning, and 41-tone tuning. Guus Janssen and Melle Weijters explore together the new possibilities these tunings offer for improvised music, with a special emphasis on the blues. As a regular performer on the Fokker organ, the versatile musician and leading composer Guus Janssen already has extensive experience with “light music” on this 31-tone organ. Jazz guitarist Melle Weijters has devoted himself for many years to fretless and microtonal guitars and is a specialist in this field. The alternating styles of the improvisations and themes are supported by the use of the most advanced computer techniques, which will lead to surprising results.
MicroBlues
Programme
1. Stolen Moments (O. Nelson)
2. Estampie (G. Janssen)
3. Mean Monk (M. Weijters)
4. Texel’s Kebab (M. Weijters)
5. Nuages (D. Reinhardt)
6. Stuitervariaties (M. Weijters)
7. Downhome Blues (Weijters/Janssen)
8. Lonely Woman (O. Coleman)
Support
This programme was made possible with the support of: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Gemeente Amsterdam (stadsdeel Oost), Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Petronella Andriessen Fonds) and Dr. Hofstee Stichting.
Also the SNS REAAL Fonds – renamed Fonds 21 (renovation Fokker organ), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (renovation Fokker organ), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Huygens-Fokker Foundation.
Fokker organ concert
Sunday 28 September 2014, 11:00 a.m.
Admission fee €12.50 (€10.00 reduced price)
Small Hall, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam
Performers
Guus Janssen, Fokker organ
Melle Weijters, guitar

