Diederik Rijpstra

May 23rd in Trouw: Presentation new album The Living City

Dear all,

the release of my new album The Living City, on TryTone records, draws near. I am delighted to inform you that you will be able to hear the music from this project for the first time, exclusively at 'Trouw De Verdieping', in Amsterdam on May 23rd, 20:00.

It's not a concert though. The large industrial space in the basement of this former print press will host an interdisciplinary performance in which the music of The Living City is the key element. I have asked several other artists to pick a track on the record and use it as a source for inspiration. And because the album is about the universal energy between people in a city; about the exchange of ideas and inspirations; about interaction and friction; working together with a video artist, dancer, actor, performance artist, visual artist and writers, will re-create The Living City for real. And you, as an audience, are going to be part of that Living City.

You can now help us fund this remarkable project as well as the forthcoming album. There is a great movie by Joost Reijmers online, that propels our crowdfunding efforts. Please check this out:

The Living City project in Trouw, May 23.

You can listen to the album on May 23^rd in Trouw, Amsterdam. But beware! It’s not a concert. It’s a show in which all your senses will be tickled. It’s about the universal energy amongst people in the city and the music of the album is the key element. I’ve asked several artists to pick one piece of the CD and use it as a source for their inspiration. There will be video, live poetry, performance art, photography, prose, theater and visual arts.

I'll keep you posted!

Brrrooowser....

Hi everybody. I found out that the website is not working properly in Mozzilla Firefox. I am working on the problem. Meanwhile you can use Chrome of Safari.

Sandy's Snow

Since I came back to New York last month I have been at the Far Rockaways a couple of times to help out people that were affected by hurricane Sandy. Then I thought of a way to help them musically. Well... there it is. A One Minute of Music dedicated to those affected by Sandy. Buy the song on iTunes (all the revenues will go to Occupy Sandy and the Red Cross) or go to www.minuteofmusic.com for information about donations!

One Minute of Music

I am very happy to introduce One Minute of Music to you. Twice a month I will produce exactly one minute of music. It's not a song but 60 seconds of art, a musical column. It is there to inspire you. Please go to

www.minuteofmusic.com

And also watch this introduction video

And don't forget to like the Facebook page!

North Sea Jazz excepts and concert in Carré.

The benefit concert for "Stichting Kanker in beeld" was a success. Fay Claassen rocked the venue! You can go to the website to order the DVD. www.oncofonie.nl

I have a video of our concert on the North Sea Jazz festival: Click and check it out!

Currently I am working hard on the production of my new album "The Living City" and another project that will be up online starting the end of October. Keep you posted about that.

best,

Hi there everybody! North Sea Jazz was grand.... I loved it. I hope to have some video footage for you soon. For now I am working hard on an arrangement for the Noord Pool Orkest featuring Cor Bakker and Fay Claassen. It is for a benefit concert in Carré on September 16. Many artists, composers, arrangers and organisers are working hard to raise money for Stichting Kanker (cancer) in Beeld. We are realizing a symphony called the Oncofonie (Oncophonia) to raise money for people with cancer. Come by in Carré on September 16th for a better future for people with this terrible disease. For more information visit www.oncofonie.nl

North Sea Jazz festival and the Open Song Project

The Open Song Project with Ayanna Witter-Johnson was a succes. Check out the audio experience here on YouTube. It was an honour to work so closely together. The Open Song Project will continue!

On July 8 I will be playing at the North Sea Jazz festival, with Joost LIjbaart, Clemens van der Feen and Harmen Fraanje. It will be a divers set with pieces from the album Wampum as well as new material from the new record (unreleased). The special guest will be Ayanna Witter-Johnson!

Hope to see you there.

Ayanna Witter-Johnson and myself are working hard to make our tour in the end of May a success. The rehearsals with Tinmen and the Telephone, also part of the project, have begun. Come and check us out in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Bosch and Hamburg! It is going to be great.

Happy New Year!

Currently I am working on a new album that will be recorded in February. It features the great pianist Andy Milne, drummer Greg Ritchie, bass player Zack Lober and the adventure seeker Keisuke Matsuno on guitar.

I am looking forward to it and I'll keep you posted.

The music video of the Bimhuis is online.

Enjoy: www.youtube.com/diederikrijpstra

And today: Jazzdag in Rotterdam, 21:00-21:30 at the Balszaal, Hotel New York

Balcony of the Irish Turtle is out now!

This new QUINCEY record is available on

Enjoy the new character and sound of the band!

CANCELLED!!

QUINCEY's gig in the Kombinatie on March 4 is CANCELLED!!!

Check out my latest review in Jazzism! It's in Dutch...

click here!

I posted some new compositions on my youtube channel! www.youtube.com/diederikrijpstra

I scored my first short movie called On The Run and I posted a piece called Coltrane. Enjoy.

Wampum available online

My new album is available on Itunes. Click here: and support this project! Also check out the great reviews I got. For the English natives: I have some quotes from the reviews of the major newpapers. Check out the download section.

Wednesday June 30, 20.00

Alshey Kahn, the author of "Kind if Blue: the making of Miles DAvis' masterpiece, and famous jazz journalist, is giving a lecture at the Rotterdam library about the groundbraking album Bitches Brew. And I will be sitting next to him! It's an honour to have the possibility discussing this record with him. We'll be talking about the influence the record had on the music history. Check out www.northsearoundtown.com for more information.

Saturday June 19: Shouting Boots! (Vuvuzela included)

Coming Saturday I will be playing at the radioprogram Shouting Boots on radio6. Together with Dimitar Bodurov on piano. And together with some pieces of my new album and a Vuvuzela. You can listen to if afterwards on http://shoutingboots.radio6.nl

Album release on the 3rd of June

I will be releasing my album Wampum on the 3rd of June in the Badcuyp, Amsterdam. I am really looking forward to play with these great musicians: Gideon van Gelder - piano, Onno Goveart - drums and Clemens van der feen - bass. I hope to see you there!

New album coming out soon!

Recently Diederik has recorded his new album featuring Joost Lijbaart, Clemens van der Feen, Dimitar Bodurov and Eric Vloeimans. It will be online soon.

New website online!

Welcome to the new website of Diederik Rijpstra. Here you can find all about his music and projects. Currently Diederik is studying at the New school for Jazz and Contemporary music, New York, with the help of the Huygens Talent Program and VSB fund. He is working on his first EP, which he will record with Clemens van der Feen, Joost Lijbaart and Dimitar Bodurov, in the beginning of January. We will keep you posted!

photo by Keke Keukelaar
photography by Keke Keukelaar

There is music in everything and there are stories everywhere. It takes an artist to appreciate those shreds of life and a musician as talented as Diederik Rijpstra, to turn them into bits of musical art, delicious songs and winding soundtracks. To that end, Diederik has stood on a windy street corner in New York for 24 hours, recording the ever changing sounds of the city. He watched a schizophrenic dog chase its own tail, spent a year in Rome and listened carefully to Paul Hindemith and Philip Glass, for his first album ‘Wampum’. And next year he will release his new album ‘The Living City’, which includes the jingle of a cheerful ice-cream truck spinning utterly out of control into a wickedly epic track.

Live, Diederik plays the trumpet and performs together with an ever evolving band of friends and challengers, such as the spectacular singer Ayanna Witter Johnson. He usually includes samples, his effortless charm and on occasion even an iPhone app or a toy piano. But whatever he does, his curiosity is infectious. Diederik will allow you to experience his stories. Stories that can sound like the Calabrian hills, a drunken Russian restaurant in Brighton Beach, an autumn apartment in Brooklyn or an electrifying night at North Sea Jazz where he performed this year. So go see him play whenever you can, buy his albums, and follow his shenanigans as he publishes One Minute of Music every other week on www.minuteofmusic.com. Listen to Diederik Rijpstra; always new, always hopeful and if you’re lucky you’ll get to see his disarming smile free of charge.

His current group with Joost Lijbaart (winner Dutch jazz competition 2002 and a.o. member of Yuri Honing trio), Clemens van der Feen (a.o. semi-finalist of the Thelonious Monk Competition), and Dimitar Bodurov (winner Young Pianist Foundation Jazz Competition 2007) is looking for diversity in their music in playful and surprising ways. The Diederik Rijpstra Quartet plays compositions that combine lyricism and intense interactivity. His new album Wampum was released in June 2010. This album also included some duo improvisations with the renowned Eric Vloeimans. Diederik just recorded a new album in New York with Andy Milne, Greg Ritchie, Zack Lober and Keisuke Matsuno. This album is planned to be released late 2012.

In Spring 2012 Diederik collaborated with Ayanna Witter Johnson. Ayanna is a gifted singer, cellist and composer and she has won the Apollo Amateur Night in New York last year. That's the same stage where Michael Jackson and Ella Fitzgerald became famous. The project was called “The Open Song Project”. The duo was accompanied by the Amsterdam piano trio Tin men and the Telephone, for some performances (including ELB Jazz in Hamburg)

Recently Diederik is working as a composer outside of jazz as well. He composed music for a selection of poems of Leo Vroman during the celebration of the poet’s 90^th birthday (Amsterdam). He wrote three pieces for the International Holland festival 2009 and 2011 and composed and edited music for the dance performance ChoreOBJECTograhy (choreography Keeley Walsh, New York). Diederik collaborated with diretor Adrian Hopkins for the short movie “On the Run.” On September 16 his first arrangement for big band and strings, the Oncofonie, premiered in the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam.

Years ago Diederik initiated the founding of QUINCEY, currently one of the most innovative jazz quintets in the Netherlands. They have released their new album Balcony of the Irish Turtle in Februari 2011. In 2004 Diederik toured with the Gideon van Gelder Quartet (winner Princess Christina Concours, finalist Deloitte Jazz Award 2008). Two years later he reached the finals of the Dutch Jazz Competition 2006 with QUINCEY and played with this group at the North Sea Jazz festival. The same year, his great talent clinched him a berth as guest soloist for the Jazz Impulse tour with the popular band Room Eleven. In 2007 he won the Dutch Trust Carnegie Award, which took him to Carnegie Hall, New York, performing with the talented young pianist Jonathan Batiste, known for his work with Wynton Marsalis. Diederik released three CDs with QUINCEY, the latter two got auspicious reviews. Diederik played with several famous Dutch musicians, like Benjamin Herman (winner Boy Edgar Prize) Harmen Fraanje and Jesse van Ruller (winner Thelonious Monk Award) and on stages and festivals like Bimhuis, SJU huis, Beauforthuis, North Sea Jazz festival and The Hague Jazz festival.

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What other people say about Diederik:

Eric Vloeimans (most renowned Dutch trumpet player): “I find his playing very original and nuanced. Diederik is a genuine storyteller on his trumpet.”

Press:

www.jazzenzo.nl augustus 2012

“His tone makes one feel happy and evokes melancholy. Nostalgia and optimism melt together.”

Jazzism, December 2010

“Wampum is impressive. The music can start out dreamy to be pursued by heavy, exciting, challenging and emotional music, guided by associative thoughts.”

Volkskrant, June 2010

“The debut album of Diederik Rijpstra (1982), studying in New York, is surprising. Not only because of his storytelling, etherical and brave playing, but mostly the unhindered and developing compositions are intriguing.“

NRC Next, July 2010

“Rijpstra’s debut shows more compositional talent than before. His music is intriguing.”

Parool, June 2010

“A young and exciting trumpetplayer. Diederik Rijpstra is in the middle of the age of discretion, what an individual sound he has, both in his playing and in his compositions.”

Elsevier, June 2010

“The creativity is intensely present; traditional and modern sounds blend together. Wampum is a jewel. “

HVT, April 2008

“Diederik Rijpstra impresses me with his fragile and emotional way of playing in his own composition Tu.”

Jazzflits, January 2008

“The in unison playing of Van Der Vlugt (saxophone) and Rijpstra creates a full, melancholic and beautifully balanced sound.”

www.jazzenzo.nl August 2006

“Trumpet player Diederik Rijpstra plays daringly and explores the boundaries of his instrument.”

Dit is de Dag
22-05-'13 14:30
Radio appearance
Dit is de Dag

De Avonden
22-05-'13 21:00
Radio appearance
De Avonden

Trouw de Verdieping
23-05-'13 20:00
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Living City project in Trouw; in cooperation with several artists

This project is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts), Trouw Amsterdam, deCDPerserij.nl, and BeamSystems

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24-10-'13 00:00
Rotterdam
The Living City project

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25-10-'13 00:00
Tilburg
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26-10-'13 20:30
Amsterdam
The Living City project

De Kluiz
19-02-'14 20:00
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