Every Thursday night, Werkplaats turns into a low-lit jazz den with free live music. Grab a drink, sink into a chair, and let people who know what they’re doing blow the weekday noise out of your head, capiche?
Amsterdam Jazz Trio
The Amsterdam Jazz Trio are of three talented and idiosyncratic jazz musicians: pianist Jochem Braat, drummer Tijn Jans and double bassist Adrie Braat.
Because of their shared love for the timeless music from the American Songbook and the musical freedom that a jazz piano trio offers, they found each other in the Amsterdam Jazz Trio. With the personal contribution from the different musical backgrounds of the musicians, the trio gives the music a unique and exciting color. At the same time, the shared focus of the musicians also gives the music a particularly harmoniously interwoven overall sound, making the trio sound like one instrument.
The inspiration for the trio’s music rests on the long tradition of the “classical” jazz trio marked by pianists such as Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans, but also by Dutch pianists such as Pim Jacobs and Louis van Dijk. Like these famous names, the Amsterdam Jazz Trio offers surprising new interpretations of well-known jazz pieces. The trio pays tribute to the beautiful history of Jazz, and at the same time it can be heard that in the 21st century this form of jazz music still has an important place in the music world.
