Bass player Ernst Glerum.
We commemorate pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg who died 3 March 2017, with Ernst Glerum who has been the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra’s bass player for a long time.
Ernst Glerum (1955) studied classical double bass at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. During his studies he started playing with contemporary music ensembles (ASKO ensemble) and improvising bands (Curtis Clark, Hans Dulfer, JC Tans, Theo Loevendie). He performed at many international venues with the Amsterdam String Trio and the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra. He played with artists such as Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Teddy Edwards, Benny Maupin, Jimmy Knepper, Jamaladeen Tacuma, John Zorn, Bus Shank and many others, often together with Han Bennink. As a composer/arranger he initiated projects such as the new Klookabilities (NOS Radio Jazz Festival) and Universal Metropolitan Music. He founded his own record label “Favorite” in 2004. In addition to the Instant Composers Pool and the Amsterdam String Trio he also plays with Guus Janssen and Benjamin Herman. In his own group “Omnibus” he plays the piano regularly. He teaches double bass at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
– ICP Orchestra: De sprong, O romantiek der Hazen (The Leap, O Romance of Hares)
– Glerum Omnibus: Radio Brtak
– ICP Orchestra: Barbaric, Hoagy Carmichael. Alto sax solo by Michael Moore
– ICP Orchestra: Back to Lippiza
– ICP Orchestra: Epistrophy, Thelonious Monk
– ICP Orchestra: Spinning song, Herbie Nichols
– Glerum Omnibus: Omnibus four. Piano Ernst Glerum
– ICP Orchestra: Waar bleef je? (Where have you been?)
photo: Door Lymantria
