During The Art of the Trio, pianist Guus Janssen can be heard twice. In this concert, he plays the extraordinary 31-tone Fokker organ. As an experienced performer on this instrument, he makes full use of its unique possibilities – the 31 tones per octave allow for a wealth of microtonal exploration. Janssen’s regular trio partners, trumpeter Marco Blaauw and trombonist Wolter Wierbos, join him in an improvisational dialogue. Improvisations, experiments, and jazz classics will form the heart of this concert, often enriched with microtonal flavours and spices.
The 31 tones of the Fokker organ are microtones, filling the spaces between the twelve notes we all know from the white and black keys of the piano. Intervals that are not entirely pure in the conventional twelve-tone system can here sound perfectly in tune. Composer, pianist, and improviser Guus Janssen disregards traditional boundaries of genre and style. The Fokker organ, with its permanent home in the Kleine Zaal of the Muziekgebouw, serves as an ideal medium for his colourful improvisations. In short, an adventurous concert with top-class musicians!