Urban Chaos Album

Their debut album was released on October 4th, with Zennez Records. Their 2024 Fall release tour showcases nine performances across the Netherlands, England, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Performances in the Netherlands will also feature Tenor Saxophonist Jasper Blom.

"This [Urban Chaos] album showcases Nick Adema as one of the most versatile trombonists on the modern jazz landscape.” Dee Dee McNeil (Making a Scene Oct 2024)

Urban Chaos

Nick Adema - Trombone/Effects/Compositions

Guest Noah Preminger - Tenor Saxophone (USA)

Joy Shechter - Piano/Keyboard

Azubike Onwuka - Electric Bass

Chen Har Even - Drumset

2024 European

Dates

Feb 6th Bimhuis Cafe, Feb 9 Toqueur (Amsterdam), May 7 Bflat (Berlin), May 8th Bird (Rotterdam), June 1 Stadtgarten (Cologne), June 16th Zeeland Jazz, September 17th Bimhuis Cafe (Amsterdam), September 27th Chichester Jazz Oct 4th Ujazz Tivoli Club Nine (Utrecht) Oct 5th Dizzy’s (Rotterdam), Oct 6th Club Miles (Amersfoort) ,Oct 8th Splendor (Amsterdam), Oct 10th Larrys Corner (Stockholm), Oct 11th Juret (Oslo, Norway), Oct 12th Christiania Jazz (Copenhagen)

2024 Canadian Tour

Nick Adema

Nick Adema is a Canadian trombonist/composer currently based in Amsterdam Nick is a Rath Trombones artist.

Exploring the plurality of sonic environments is Nick Adema’s forte. Using the modest nature of the slide to express his musical vigour, Nick is one of the most versatile trombonists coming out of Canada. Hailing from the nation's capital Ottawa, Nick quickly came onto the scene as a curious mind who embraced spontaneity and playfulness in his music. He’s a lone musical wanderer who utilizes virtuosic playing, electronic pedals, and an out of the box mentality that stores his chaotic music mentality

Nick is also a sideman in the Netherlands, touring the country's largest jazz venues such as North Sea Jazz, Bimhuis, Tivoli, Lanteren Venster, Den Paard and others. Nick has called a number of prominent dutch musicians for his performances, such as Tineke Postma, Reinier Baas, Ben van Gelder and Jasper Blom. Whilst in his studies in Amsterdam and in Toronto, Nick has been the recipient of a number of awards during his studies in Amsterdam and Toronto, such as the Keep an Eye International Jazz Competition Best CvA Soloist, the Holland Scholarship, the Albert and Wilhelmine Renewable Scholarship.

Of Brooklyn-based saxophonist Noah Preminger, The New York Times declares: “Mr. Preminger designs a different kind of sound for each note, an individual destiny and story.” Preminger, just 36 and two-time winner of Downbeat Magazine’s Rising Star Best Tenor Saxophonist, has recorded nearly two dozen critically acclaimed albums as a band-leader. Preminger has released multiple new recordings, including Meditations On Freedom (Dry Bridge), released on Inauguration Day, 2017, as a musical protest at ominous political developments in America. In addition, a duo album recorded in Jordan Hall with pianist, Frank Carlberg, and a Preminger Plays Preminger album – the music of Otto Preminger’s films – on French, vinyl-only label, Newvelle Records. In 2018, Preminger and co-leader, Rob Garcia, created the Dead Composers Club and released The Chopin Project (BJU), the first of the quartet’s planned annual examinations of deceased composer’s oeuvre. Their second recording, featuring music of the prolific 11th century composer, Hildegard von Bingen, will be released in 2023. In 2019, Preminger released two new recordings: After Life (Criss Cross), a collaboration with poet Ruth Lepson, and Zigsaw: Music of Steve Lampert (Dry Bridge), an exciting, new avenue for Preminger that features electrifying electronic/acoustic music. In 2020, Preminger released a new Quartet recording, Contemptment (SteepleChase), and in 2021 he released THUNDA (Dry Bridge) with bassist, Kim Cass, as well as Preminger’s second album for SteepleChase, Songs We Love, with guitarist, Max Light.

Joy Shechter

Joy Shechter (96’) is a pianist and composer based in Amsterdam. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Film Composing at Berklee College of Music (19’) (summa cumme laude), where he attended with a full scholarship, and completed his master’s in Jazz Performance at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam (23’), under the instruction of Harmen Fraanje. In 2023 he received the second prize at the International Keep An Eye Award with the Marios Charalampous Quartet.

Joy has played in several countries over 3 continents, including the USA, Canada, Portugal, Greece, Israel and the Netherlands. He played with musicians such as Jasper Blom, Yoran Vroom and Gilad Hazan.

Alongside his career as a performer, Joy is also involved in musically-oriented social outreach projects, such as the Bikurim School of the Art for which he is a founding member, and the El Sistema- inspired project Sulamot - Music for Social Change.

Azubike Onwuka

Born in 1995, Azubike grew up in the colourful and multi-cultural neighbourhood of Amsterdam Southeast. From an early age he learned to listen to a many kinds of music. From James Brown & John Coltrane to J.S Bach, Jimi Hendrix and many others. While studying at the Conservatory of Amsterdam this further developed into a taste for new and unknown genres. This lead to him studying and frequently performing Jazz, Baroque, Reggae, House, Fusion, Arabic, Afrobeat and other types of music. After graduating from the Jazz department he further developed him self as a musician in the Dutch music scene. He has toured in Europe, the Middle-East and Canada with numerous international artists. Azubike’s approach to music is marked by a the ability to make connections between seemingly distant parts of the music spectrum as well as a never ending curiosity to know ‘what’s on the other side?’.

Chen Har-Even

Chen Har-Even (1995) is an Israeli drummer and improviser based in Amsterdam.

He has been fascinated by music from an early age, picking up the drumsticks for the first time at the age of nine. Chen is an active figure in the Amsterdam jazz scene, as well as the indie and pop scenes of Tel-Aviv. He is regularly playing in different venues and festivals in Europe, both as a sideman and as a bandleader.