Artist: Marc van Vugt's Big Bizar Habit

a jazz-chamber orchestra

Marc van Vugt's Big Bizar Habit is an 11-piece ensemble as large as a traditional chamber music orchestra but consisting of musicians who have earned their credits at the interface of contemporary composed music and jazz and improvised music. A combination of a jazz string quartet, a 3-piece horn section, vocals, guitar/banjo, piano, string bass and drums.

For his compositions for Marc van Vugt's Big Bizar Habit Marc van Vugt received an honourable mention at the prestigious Julius Hemphill Composition competition awards 2002(USA). Black Belt to White Belt won the Nexus Guitar Award 2003.

The Vandoesburgsuite.
Inspired by his two year residency at the Van Doesburghous in Paris Marc wrote the Vandoesburgsuite.

The new Cd 'Different Shades of Gray, the Vandoesburgsuite' was presented in January 2005 during a concert featuring New York tromboneplayer Robin Eubanks. In july 2005 the suite was performed at the famous North Sea Jazz festival. In the spring they did a special project with the Canadian NOJO Big Band from Canada because of the 60st celebration of the Dutch Liberation.

line up:

Marc van Vugt, guitars/composer
Ineke van Doorn, voice/piano/lyrics
Toon de Gouw or Bert Lochs, trumpet
Jasper Blom or Mete Erker, saxes/clarinet
Joost Buis or Louk Boudesteijn, trombone
Jeffrey Bruinsma violin,
Lorre Trytten or Jasper Le Clerq, violin
Ro Kraus, viola
Annie Tangberg or Paul Stouthamer, cello
Paul Berner, bass
Joost Lijbaart, drums show native description