Busch & Van Kemenade

Collaborations and double bills

Paul van Kemenade · alto sax, Stevko Busch · piano

With this duo, Paul van Kemenade and Stevko Busch have developed their own sound language over the years – serene, quiet, full of soul, with tender silences, contemplation, the occasional primal outburst, always followed by reconciliation.

This language of sound has been highly praised nationally – and especially internationally. Tours in China, Russia, Scandinavia, North and South Africa and Europe have not only reached a large festival audience. Music journalists and jazz historians have also pondered this duo’s special way of playing.

“Today’s duo recordings are stiff with the most pertinent details. Spawned by an immeasurable intuition of two musicians, which is far beyond the majority of other duo CDs. …utterly organic, the craftsmanship and connection of both musicians yields gentle, sometimes breath-taking improvisations.”
Rinus van der Heijden, jazznu.nl

Duo Busch & van Kemenade as seed of other groups

  • FUGARA’ with master trumpeter Markus Stockhausen and drummer Markku Ounaskari (both ECM-artists)
  • With flamenco flutist Jorge Pardo (20 years member of Paco de Lucia Quintet) and Indian bamboo flutist Dinesh Mishra
  • Borderhopping – with German composer and bass clarinetist Eckard Koltermann, Wolter Wierbos, Achim Krämer, Markus Conrads.

Duo Busch & van Kemenade in double concerts and dance theater

  • Since 2015 the duo has been part of productions for children and adults by dance company De Stilte:
    2015 in Lublin / Poland
    since December 2018 in the highly successful performance ‘Mankind’.

Double concerts with other projects of Paul van Kemenade

  • Archie Shepp Quartet – Paranoia Festival, Bimhuis and others.
  • Paul van Kemenade, Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Ernst Glerum – Jazzfest Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam
  • Three Horns and a Bass – Paul van Kemenade, Angelo Verploegen, Luuk Boudestijn, Wiro Mahieu

Touring

  • With “Fugara” 2011 – 2013
  • Russia 2015
  • South Africa 2016
  • Poland 2017
  • China 2017
  • With dance company “De Stilte” 2018-2020