Heavy Jazz Jam

The central figure of Roadburn’s annual Heavy Jazz Jam this year is Dutch composer and guitarist Theo Holsheimer – a man with a penchant for maximum madness on stage. His band Cilice is notorious for stretching the boundaries of heavy music like silly putty – a hard-hitting juggernaut that’s somehow also crazy nimble in its dazzling virtousity.

Having someone like Holsheimer cast the first stone at a Heavy Jazz Jam will a hundred procent trigger some spectacular fireworks at Paradox. The personnel he employs will make sure of that: we have fellow Cilice member Philipp Moser on drums, Gijs Levelt of Amsterdam Klezmer Band on trumpet, Joao Driessen of Benoit Martiny Band on sax and ewi, Elvis Sergo on keys/hammond and finally, multi-prize-winning musician Oene van Geel from Estafest, Zapp4, and many other bands, on viola and percussion.

– Jasper Willems