Victor de Boo is a many-sided drummer and composer. You can spot him in really diverse bands. In his own trio he is supported by two master instrumentalists who each have there complete own view at improvisation.
In the playing of Anton Goudsmit you still taste the conception of guitarplaying which was developed in jazz and blues. With Wolter Wierbos, who can get anything out of his instrument what's in there, you recognize the conception of free improvisation.
Victor de Boo uses both sourses for his compositions. In each piece thematic motives and improvisations are weaved with each other. Constantly surprising changes get developed in the performed pieces because nobody in the trio is restricted in playing certain parts. Quick lines from the guitar, drums and trombone tumble over each other. At the same time they are a contrast for the more lyrical moments. Swinging parts are getting a tight follow-up by using funkrhythms in combination with question and answer playing of the guitar and trombone. The result is music which is both glowing and dyamic in its character and which has more sound then you would expect from a trio.
from the program book Muziekcentrum 's Hertogenbosch / Franc van Gurp
Clean-cut, the flying Dutchmen who are invading the new jazz are musical madcaps who mix cocktails of the logical and surreal ... Drummer Victor de Boo's languidly bluesy date marks a pleasing exursion for a seldom-heard combo with bassist (guitarist VdB) Anton Goudsmit and trombonist Wolter Wierbos. Playing at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and recorded live for VPRO radio, they rip, rig and never panic over nine pieces, settling into unsettling grooves that chew at blues traces. "Pork" is a lean chop off Charles Mingus "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," and "Boom" - with Wierbos wacko intro of sackbut stutter-mutter - plays fast and loose. Track after track, the three let things slowburn organically, as "Do The Fac." heats from kindling to a woodchopper's bonfire. Even on the few tracks - fervid set-closers and rambunctious "Mr. B." - where they snake into up-tempo, they're in no hurry.
DOWNBEAT June 2002 / Fred Bouchard
WOLTER WIERBOS trombone
ANTON GOUDSMIT guitar
VICTOR DE BOO drums
