Robert Dick trio at Improtest
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Robert Dick Scandinavian Trio with Niels Præstholm and Christian Windfeld.
The trio brings together Robert Dick, one of the world's most prolific flute players, and two leading Danish improvisers. Their music can be described as a unique fusion of sounds and rhythms. Known around the world as a leader of contemporary flute music, Robert Dick embodies the ideal of the Renaissance artist. Equally deeply rooted in classical and new music and in free improvisation and new jazz, he has proven himself an artist who has not only mastered his instrument superbly but has also redefined it. Robert's music carries a vision of constant change and searching. He draws ideas from the jazz tradition, world music (especially Indian and African), electronic music and the sounds of nature. His work is marked by clarity of structure and an incredibly wide variety of timbre.
Bassist Niels Præstholm is a veteran of Danish and international jazz and improvised music. He graduated from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 1990. Præstholm has received many honours, both as a composer and as the leader of his own ensembles, and as a sideman with many artists. As an improviser and composer, Præstholm is known with his ensembles Embla and Gyroscope String Trio as a forerunner of Nordic jazz. Præstholm has toured internationally and recorded with artists such as Michael Gregory Jackson, Django Bates, Kresten Osgood, Mart Soo, John Tchicai, Butch Lacy and many, many others. Find out more on the website www.nielspraestholm.dk
Christian Windfeld is a Danish improviser, composer and percussionist, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark.
Since the age of 19 he has been very active, touring all over Europe, North America and Australia, and has lived in Stockholm, New York and Berlin. Windfeld has a minimalist but highly expressive approach to percussion, often reducing his means to focus on just one unit of the drum kit, e.g. the snare drum, to explore all the possibilities it offers.