The Houdini's celebrating their 25th anniversary with a best of album and release concert!

Next Saturday, on March 23rd The Houdini's will present their new best of cd The Houdini's In Time in Bimhuis Amsterdam.

The cd is an overview of 25 years of history: 12 own albums and 7 albums produced in cooperation with artists like Frank Boeijen, Trijntje Oosterhuis & Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Gino Vannelli, the Jazz Orchesra Of The Concertgebouw, Jacob ter Velthuis and Kim Hoorweg. Music Connoisseur Ruud Meijer compiled 14 tracks for an excellent overview from the past 25 years, uncluding 4 live recordings and 2 tracks with Kim Hoorweg. Headlines - that's what the Dutch hard bop sextet The Houdini's made in the national and international jazz press after having played the prestigious 1989 North Sea Jazz Festival. The authoritative American jazz magazine DownBeat even proclaimed them 'equals of the young jazzers of New York', words of praise summing up their capabilities rather nicely. Re-evaluating that first album and their sophomore effort Headlines, the 21st century jazz buff really gets a blast from the past. The Houdini's played hard bop as if they had invented the genre – and they still do so.

By the mid nineties the Houdini's performed all over the globe. During their tour of Australia and Tasmania they played 21 gigs in a month's time. To give an impression of their electrifying performances down-under we included three no-nonsense live tracks recorded on that tour. During their release concert The Houdini's will play new repertoire combined with pieces from their 25 years history, which has always been the ambition of The Houdini's, who never sound like a broken record. No matter whether they are considered icons or not, their music is still bursting at the seams with energy. So not 'grey, bald and slowed-down', but 'grey, bald and fully into it'.

Where and when
Saturday, March 23, 20:30 hr
Bimhuis
Piet Heinkade 3
1019 BR Amsterdam

Tickets are € 18,- and available at Bimhuis