5th July 2019: Saxophonist and composer Jasper Blom is awarded the prestigious Boy Edgar Prize + Jazz Views review of ‘Polyphony’

Congratulations to saxophonist and composer Jasper Blom who has been awarded the Boy Edgar Prize 2019, the most prestigious award for jazz and improvised music in the Netherlands. The news was announced at inJazz, the jazz network and showcase event in Rotterdam. Jasper is regarded as one of the most pivotal tenor and soprano saxophonists on the Dutch jazz scene and is renowned for his compositional synthesis of jazz, pop, classical and improvised music. See his 2019 Whirlwind release Polyphony (CD • DL • 180 gram, 12″ 2x Gatefold LP): here

Here’s a quote from the judging panel:

“He never does anything for the sake of effect and has been ploughing his own furrow with unwavering integrity in various movements within the jazz idiom for thirty years. His tone is never harsh, but always brims with suspense and excitement, like a warm whirlwind stirring up things that the listener cannot predict.”

Jasper will perform a special concert at the awards ceremony at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis on 4th December. Tickets: here

Recent praise for Polyphony:

“The quartet are flexible and supremely accomplished; their longstanding relationship is audible in the way they can pay attention to the smallest detail of texture and dynamic.”
Jazz Views  (full review)