Vansina-Verbruggen-Gudmundsson trio
Bruno Vansina (alto- & soprano saxophone) / Gulli Gudmundsson (bass) / Teun Verbruggen (drums)
AUDIO SAMPLES SLIDESHOW 1 VVG trio (Leuven) SLIDESHOW 2 VVG trio ft. Magic Malik & Jozef Dumoulin
The CD 'Trio Music' of one of their first concerts was recorded in 2005. From the very beginning, it was a quest for their own sound, by means of classics, own compositions and free improvisation. Something like that is called ‘growing up in public’. In 2005 they created Double Trio – a confrontation between a jazz trio and three dancers -, with the internationally renowned dance company Rosas. A year later they were on tour with the Fender-Rhodes mammoth Jozef Dumoulin (who plays with the trio at the Flemish Jazz Meeting 2007 as guest) and Magic Malik, who got himself noticed on St-Germain’s Boulevard. And, as it becomes this band, the tour resulted in a live album ‘In Orbit’ and two years later 'Tokio Quantize'.
The Double Trio Live concerts are the result of the encounter between jazz musician Bruno Vansina and contemporary dancer and choreographer Salva Sanchis. In this ongoing collaboration project, where the live performances are the place where the research occurs, dance and music share the stage on equal terms. The premise for the performance is very simple: a jazz concert with three musicians and three dancers. The repertory, which combines jazz standards with compositions by Bruno Vansina, changes from concert to concert. The Double Concerts project was born from a will of exploring a very concrete approach to the relation between improvised dance and improvised music, and to do so in front of an audience rather than on a studio situation. In jazz music, improvisation is something that, although limitless in its possibilities, is framed within very precise parameters of time and harmony. Those parameters are not only tools to challenge and guide the improvisational skills of the soloist, they are also the context in which communication between the musicians is made possible. In this project, that context is used by the dance in order to organize improvisation in time and space, as well as the interaction between dancers; everything that happens in the dance is in direct relation to the (internal structure of the) music. Thus, the songs are the core of the concert, and both dancers and musicians use those songs to improvise. In other words, all six performers know what is going to be played, but none of them knows how it is going to be played; it is not a jam session, it's a concert.
Double Trio archieve:
28/02/04 Sum Some @ Beursschouwburg-Brussels / Double Duet #1
11/09/04 @ CC Hasselt / Double Duet #2
16/10/04 'Solo soli' Festival @ CC Kortrij / Double Solo #1
06/02/05 @ Les Halles, Brussels / Double Trio #1
16/11/05 @ Casino Modern, Genk / Double Trio #2
11 & 12/08/06 @ IMPULZTANZ Festival / Double Trio #3
15/05/07 @ Concertgebouw-Bruge / Double Trio #4
01 & 02/11/07 @ Barcelona-Spain / Double Trio #5
31/08/08 @ Kaaitheater / Double Trio #7