the reunion, improvised music

Quartet Intuition
Improvised music – the reunion

Thirty-eight years after the first and only time that Jonathan Impett and Maarten van der Valk — trumpeter and timpanist/percussionist of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century — together with guitarist and pianist Bob Helsloot, bassist Wilbert de Gooijer, and saxophonist Peter Massink, shut themselves away in an Amsterdam studio for three hours to improvise... a reunion was decided upon.

So the gentlemen met again, sadly without Peter Massink, who has since passed away. Under the direction of sound engineer Jochem Geene, they improvised for a full day. At the end of the day, Raaf Hekkema — saxophonist of the reed quintet Calefax and son of the legendary trumpeter Evert Hekkema — performed his own arrangement of his father's Simplex. That's how, four decades later, the foundation for this album came together, again in a single day. We chose to frame the 12 improvisations with two older recordings featuring Peter Massink. Intuition, the reunion is thus both a joyful reunion, a new introduction to Raaf, and above all a tribute to Peter — a great musician and friend from the very beginning.

Jonathan Impett trumpet
Maarten van der Valk drums & percussion
Bob Helsloot electric guitar & piano
Wilbert de Gooijer bass
Peter Massink tenor & soprano saxophone
Philip Baumgarten bass
Nico van der Linden Fender Rhodes
Raaf Hekkema saxophone
Leo Bouwmeester piano
Evert Woud bass