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Pianist Michiel Braam Drafts Chicagoans into His Long-Running 'Anti-Orchestra'

By Neil Tesser
Chicago Reader | November 10, 2008
On Friday his long-running large group, Bik Bent Braam will play music from its gloriously rambunctious new album, Extremen, but with one big twist: Braam will fill out the roster of 13 musicians with ten local improvisers -- the first time he's ever performed the band's repertoire with anyone but the musicians for whom he wrote it.
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Tags: jazz, Bik Bent Braam, Extremen, Michiel Braam, Umbrella Music Festival

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