Kika Sprangers - Jazz poetry that speaks to your imagination | Live from Amsterdam.

Kika Sprangers (a), Robert Koemans (p), Tom Felices (d) and Wouter Kuhne (d).

With her velvety sound, sparkling musical language, and captivating compositions, the Dutch saxophonist Kika Sprangers (Nijmegen, 1994) is among the most heartwarming musicians our country has to offer. In her playing, she connects vulnerability and strength with full dedication. A vision that musically manifests itself in a preference for unconventional ensembles and arcs of tension from symphonically full passages to charged silences. Jazz poetry that speaks to your imagination.
Her album Mind’s Eye, an ode to imagination, was released on ZenneZ Records. In 2022 and 2023, the quintet toured Dutch jazz clubs and festivals such as North Sea Jazz, Bimhuis, LantarenVenster. Under the guidance of TivoliVredenburg and with support from the Performing Arts Fund, Kika followed a two-year new music maker trajectory. In this program, Kika recorded new music with her Large Ensemble and in duo with guitarist Mikkel Ploug and pianist Kit Downes, with whom she released the EPs Du Blomst and Mirage in 2024 on DOX Records. The Large Ensemble album “(In)finity” was released at the end of 2024 and last year was awarded an Edison in the National category. In 2024, Kika also received the Willem Breuker Prize.

Her new album Morning, which she recorded with Beiggja (with Kjetil Mulelid, Mats Eilertsen and Per Oddvar Johansen), was released in 2025 on the HUBRO label, followed by tours in the Netherlands and Norway. In 2025, Kika wrote a brand-new program for the North Sea Jazz Composition Commission A brand new program for the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Alistair Payne, Reinier Baas, Tijs Klaassen and Jonas Burgwinkel. Her new quintet album will be released in November this year.

Because of the world-famous jazz programs at the Dutch conservatories, young cats from every corner of the globe touch down in the Netherlands. And for decades, every Wednesday night they’ve been hittin’ up Sociëteit de Kring — a 100-year-old arts and culture clubhouse right off Leidseplein in Amsterdam.
At this channel we want to introduce incredible cats from the Amsterdam scene, young and older. Experience and starting but all with groove, digging deep and playing with a soul.

Sociëteit de Kring is a place where we played jazz for more then 100 years, to dance, listen and play. A legacy of Dutch musicians and international guest played here like Misha Mengelberg, Benjamin Herman, Ben van Gelder, Reinier Baas, Timothy Banchet, Thomas Pol, Miguel , Joost Patocka, Eric Ineken, Kika Spangers, Rodriques, Roy Hargrove, Phillip Harper, Jasper Blom, Ian Cleaver, Gideon Tazelaar, Suzan Veneman, Simon Rigter, Lucas Santana, Shirma Rouse, Jesse van Ruller, Leona Philippo, Glenn Gaddum Jr., Jamie Peet, Ernst Glerum, Jerôme Hol, Jeroen Vierdag, Jasper van Hulten.
Playing music inspired by the great dominant jazz musicians as Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Paul Desmond, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Booker Little, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Cecil Taylor, Dave Brubeck, Red Garland, Wynton Kelly, Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Scott LaFaro, Jimmy Garrison, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Tony Williams, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Grant Green, Ella Fitzgerald

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