Bout du Monde

Bout du Monde (End of the World) is a quartet consisting of four musicians with a respectable track record. Drummer Richard Lems played with all the big names in the Dutch jazz world and beyond (from North Sea Jazz to Montreux). He graduated cum laude from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. Robert Mollee (saxophone) also has an enormous palmares. He has extensive experience in various styles of music and has performed in various line-ups with Ronald Douglas, Deborah Carter, Greetje Kauffeld, John Engels and many others. Joris Nederpelt Lazarom studied jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory, he played with various large and smaller orchestras at home and abroad and is a producer at his own 12notes.nl. Rob IJsendijk started his bass career in pop music and via Berklee College of Music and others soon ended up in jazz, playing many styles with countless different musicians.

The four musicians of Bout du Monde challenge each other every concert, searching for their musical limits. They know each other from various formations and have played together many times in various other combinations. Their first album ‘Hirondelle’ was released in 2020 and contains mostly pieces written by Steve Swallow. The second album of Bout du Monde named ‘Uncovered’ was released in 2022.

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