Marc Mommaas surprises with new album: Landmarc

It's only the music, that's important - the rest is social-bullshit.
Hans Koert
Marc Mommaas verrast met nieuw album: Landmarc (Nederlands) - Marc Mommaas surprises with new album: Landmarc (English)
Marc Mommaas

Marc Mommaas ( Porgy en Bess - Terneuzen (The Netherlands))(February 2011) ( photo courtesy: Hans Koert)


Last year his album Landmarc was released on the Sunnyside label.
The album Landmarc contains half a dozen tracks, all Marc's own compositions. The title tune, which I liked best, starts with a unison intro by Marc Mommaas on tenor sax and Nate Radley on electric guitar. Nate, who plays on a


Two months ago I heard Marc Mommaas with the Amina Figarova Sextet at a concert at the Porgy en Bess Jazz club in Terneuzen (The Netherlands). The music played at that concert was from her latest album Sketches where Marc can be heard on tenor saxophone. Right after the concert Amina Figarova and her husband Bart Platteau took the plunge to move to New York City too. Last weekend, the 30th of April, 2011, the Amina Figarova Sextet performed, with the same line-up as in Terneuzen, in Bay Springs,Mississippi at the Jazz in the Groove festival

The cover of the album was made by Marc's father Henk Mommaas who is a painter and the third track of the album, Brush on Canvas is dedicated to his father's jazz artists paintings . Henk, who inspired his son Marc and Carlos to become jazz musicians, introduced Marc once, as a small boy, to the legendary tenor saxophone player Ben Webster, who lived in Holland the last years of his life. He still remembers that giant hand that reached him from above ....... Isn't it great that I heard the sound of Ben in the first measures of the title song Landmarc, including his famous warm and breathy tone and slow marked vibrato!

Marc Mommaas will perform with his New York Quartet at the Porgy en Bess Jazz Club in Terneuzen ( The Netherlands) the 5th of February, 2012. Don't forget to join this concert.
Landmarc: a great record, Marc, a must have for each jazz fan, who loves modern style hardbop orientated jazz. This album can be ordered at the website of Marc Mommaas.
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl Marc Mommaas is one of those Dutch jazz musicians who moved, succesfully, to "the promised land", the States, years ago. Not an easy switchover, as he had to fight for the recognition he deserves. Muziek is waar het om gaat,(= It's only the music that's important), he says about his stay in New York, de rest is gewoon sociale bullshit.(= the rest is social-bullshit). Marc feels at home in the New York Jazz scene. Now and then he comes back to his homeland to play with bands like the Amina Figarova Sextet. His latest album, Landmarc, surprises with the special line up: tenorsax - drums and two guitar players - a great surprise!
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