About
Josse van der Schaft (Amsterdam, 1992) started playing piano at 10 years old and quickly discovered his love for jazz and improvised music when he joined the jazz band at his local music school two years later. Today he is a recent graduate of the Masters programme at the Conservatory of Amsterdam - having studied with Harmen Fraanje and taken private lessons with Aaron Parks and Sam Harris - and is active as a musician in and around his hometown Amsterdam.
He signed with the newly established Fattoria Musica Records, and released his debut album Hollow together with Augustas Baronas on drums and Tijs Klaassen on double bass on 2 February 2018.
He signed with the newly established Fattoria Musica Records, and released his debut album Hollow together with Augustas Baronas on drums and Tijs Klaassen on double bass on 2 February 2018.
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Hollow"A perfectly balanced album on which influences from classical music from the early twentieth century and masters of today result in an original and contemporary idiom. Josse van der Schaft uses his technique and vision for beautiful, contemporary and yet modest compositions. A startling and promising debut." - Jazzenzo.nl
"What a delight hearing such young musicians - van der Schaft only recently graduated from the Conservatory in Amsterdam - show restraint and withhold from trying to show off their chops. Van der Schaft has a velvet touch and succeeds, with sparse but well-chosen notes, to enter the heart of the listener." - Jazzflits.nl
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"Beautiful music! Finally music again where it's not about superficial effects but instead resolves around real improvisation, melodies, tension curves and honesty"
- Florian Weber (Germany)
If you want to read some of our reviews in full (and in Dutch!), you can visit these pages:
http://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=3888
and
http://jazzflits.nl/jazzflits16.04.pdf
http://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=3888
and
http://jazzflits.nl/jazzflits16.04.pdf
Videos
Josse van der Schaft Trio
The Josse van der Schaft Trio, with Augustas Baronas on drums, Tijs Klaassen on double bass and Josse van der Schaft on piano, recorded their debut album Hollow last summer in Osnabrück, Germany. The album was released on February 2nd 2018 with the newly founded German label Fattoria Musica Records. While playing their original material it is their goal to find a balance between intensity and playfulness, simplicity and expressiveness. Hollow consists out of originals by the band leader, and is inspired by classical music from the 20th century and contemporary European jazz music. They released their album in the Pianola Museum in Amsterdam and have since played at various venues throughout the Netherlands.
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