Misha Mengelberg Quartet's lyrics & chords

Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. Mengelberg's first appearance on record was on one of Eric Dolphy's final recording, Last Date (1964). Also on that record was the drummer Han Bennink, and the two of them, together with saxophonist Piet Noordijk, formed a quartet which had a number of different bassists, and which played at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. In 1967 he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool, an organisation which promoted avant garde Dutch jazz performances and recordings, wi...read more