The Fonda/Stevens European Quartet
When: 15-4-2027
Where: Hnita-Hoeve
Description
The members...
Joe Fonda
Michael Jefry Stevens
Dieter Ulrich
Silke Eberhard
Bassist Joe Fonda has performed with his own ensembles throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. He has collaborated Archie Shepp, Ken McIntyre, Lou Donaldson, Bill and Kenny Barron, Leo Smith, Perry Robinson, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Bill Dixon, Han Bennink, Bobby Naughton, Xu Fengia, Randy Weston, Gebhard Ullmann, Carla Bley, Carlo Zingaro, Barry Altschul, Billy Bang and many others. Fonda was the bassist with Anthony Braxton from 1984 through 1999. His current projects include the “Dreamstruck” trio featuring Marilyn Crispell and Harvey Sorgen, his collaboration with pianist Satoko Fujji, The New Origins Trio with Christopher Roche, The Eastern Boundary Quartet, the Michael Musillami Trio and the Nu Band.
Dubbed “one of the great and often under-appreciated jazz groups of the modern era” by the All Music Guide, and “arguably one of the finest and hardest working modern jazz outfits in the business” by All About Jazz, the Fonda/Stevens Group has consistently toured and recorded to critical acclaim for over three decades, performing numerous European tours, radio broadcasts and festival appearances. Together for more than thirty years, the core rhythm section team of Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda, and Harvey Sorgen in collaboration with Herb Robertson on trumpet have been featured performers at numerous venues throughout Europe and North America.
The Fonda/Stevens Group grew out of a series of musical relationships that Joe Fonda and Michael Jefry Stevens engaged in beginning in 1984 in New York City. Our first musical liaison began with our mutual association performing with Mark Whitecage in various musical ensembles culminating in performing with his “Liquid Time” Quintet in the late 1980’s and included Dave Douglas, Gerry Hemingway, Mike Sarin, Peter LeMaitre and probably some other musicians on and off during the course of probably 5 years. Associations from that band helped to form our next major musical project which was the Mosaic Sextet (1988 – 1990).
That Sextet included Michael Rabinowitz, Joe Fonda, Michael Jefry Stevens, Dave Douglas, Mark Feldman and Harvey Sorgen on drums. The group disbanded in 1990 and Joe and I decided to start the Fonda/Stevens Group. The players we chose were Mark Whitecage, Herb Robertson and Harvey Sorgen. This probably happened in 1991, which means that the band has been together now for 33 years. Although the band was originally a quintet it became a quartet without Mark around 1999/2000.
The Quartet has released fourteen CD’s over the course of thirty plus years as a touring ensemble. The ensemble has been dormant since “Covid”. However, the group is currently reforming and is planning a European tour in the Fall of 2026.
Venue
Hnita-Hoeve
Lostraat 106
2220
Heist-op-den-Berg
Upcoming
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dinsdag 17 maart 2026
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vrijdag 20 maart 2026
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