Foundation Trytone was founded in 1998 in Amsterdam as a platform for new jazz and improvised music.
The most important activities of Trytone area concert series at Zaal 100, Amsterdam
TryTone organises this series twice a month for three bands a night at Zaal 100, a small alternative theater in Amsterdam. The series has a laboratory function.the European TryTone Festival
An annual festival, it presents outstanding musicians, mainly from Europe, who haven’t been heard a lot in the Netherlands. It also serves as an opportunity for musicians to meet each other and play for the first time. One evening of the festival is dedicated to these ’unforeseen encounters’.the Trytone record label
Trytone manages a label and also does distribution for other labels.
There have been 38 releases so far.Apart from these activities, Trytone serves as a source of information about all kinds of matters concerning jazz and impro.
Trytone receives funding from the city of Amsterdam.
European TryTone Festival website
This year's European TryTone Festival is curated by the renowned Dutch trombone player Joost Buis. Also a composer, he is known for leading groups like the 'Astronotes'. He has worked with the Willem Breuker Kollektief, The Ex & Guests, Misha Mengelberg, Guus Jansen and many others. He will be heard with two projects: opening the festival with his 'carte blanche' on thursday november 1 at Zaal 100 (Amsterdam). There he will be joined by among others John Butcher and Oren Marshall. Joost also formed the new quartet Doubles with which he will perform the next two days. And he has invited two exciting groups. One is Oren Marshall's Charming Transport Band. By bringing together super-talented young jazz musicians from London and top Ghanaian drummers, Oren Marshall has synthesised his vast experience as a tuba player (from the London Philharmonic Orchestra to the Pan-African Orchestra, from Derek Bailey to Branford Marsalis) in order to create a unique vehicle for sharing his new music. Among his band members is saxophonist Nathaniel Facey, winner of the EBU European Jazz competition 2007 with his quintet 'Empirical'. Sharing the bill is the sound improvisors' all-star band The Contest of Pleasures with saxophonist John Butcher, trumpet player Axel Dörner and clarinet player Xavier Charles. Their music has been described as 'electronic music played by acoustic instruments'. Hearing their hallucinative soundscapes and textures is a truly amazing experience.
