These Things Happen

A Gentle Reminder

Releases February 27th

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Corbett vs. Dempsey and De Plattenbakkerij are proud to collaborate on A Gentle Reminder, the new long-playing vinyl record album by These Things Happen. A transatlantic quartet featuring three Chicagoans and a pianist from Holland, These Things Happen have, with a slight personnel shift (switching bassists from Joshua Abrams to Jason Roebke), remained in existence since for more than a decade. This is the band’s second release, following a recording made in 2016 (released by Astral Spirits in 2022), and it continues their dedication to the music of Misha Mengelberg and Thelonious Monk, as well as original material by Hoogland and Jackson. The sound is lean, self-aware, at times humorous, and its generosity suggests the common wellspring of ideas shared by Amsterdam’s instant composition scene and the creative music community in the Windy City.

Keefe Jackson, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet

Oscar Jan Hoogland, piano

Jason Roebke, double bass

Mikel Patrick Avery, drums

Recorded September 24 2022 at Hyde Park Jazz Festival Chicago by Nick Broste and at WNUR Studio, Northwestern University by Kate In and Tom Dixon

Mixing Ron Ruiten

Mastering Mickey Young

Cover photo Mikel Patrick Avery

Layout by Michael Dyer/Remake

Arrangements on Een Beetje Zenuwachtig and Well You Needn’t by Oscar Jan Hoogland

Keefe Jackson (BMI) Thelonious Monk (BMI) Misha Mengelberg (Buma/Stemra)

A.

20 Years Past 12 O’Clock (Keefe Jackson)

Upperclass Underground (Oscar Jan Hoogland)

Green Chimneys (Thelonious Monk)

The Head Won’t Move Until It Walks (Oscar Jan Hoogland)

You Won’t Even Notice (Keefe Jackson)

B.

Klaproos (Oscar Jan Hoogland)

Een Beetje Zenuwachtig (Misha Mengelberg)

Well You Needn’t (Thelonious Monk)

Over het Zijn en het Hoera (Oscar Jan Hoogland)

Pressed in Chicago by Smashed Plastic

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