Sörkan Ruusu Weekly Jazz Session ft. Joris Roelofs

Joris Roelofs is a bass clarinettist and composer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He began to study classical clarinet at the age of six, and he added the alto saxophone at age twelve. At sixteen, Joris performed the clarinet introduction to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Orkest van het Oosten. He played lead alto saxophone in the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (2003–2018), and for five years he was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. He has also played with Brad Mehldau, Lionel Loueke, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, among many others.

Joris chairs the Clarinet Department (Jazz) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He teaches a master’s course on music and philosophy, “Freedom and Improvisation.” Joris’s lectures “Great Philosophers on Music” and “Nietzsche’s Muses” also explore the relationship between music and philosophy.
 

Weekly jazz jam session will be held on Tuesdays at Sörkän Ruusu.

The houseband opens with a set 18.00-19.00 and jam will follow 19.00-21.30.
 

Joris Roelofs - bass clarinet

Tuomo Uusitalo - piano
Roope Kantonen - drums
Juuso Rinta - bass

Sörkän Ruusu

14.11.2023 

18.00-21.30 

Free entry