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BIOGRAPHYEric Vloeimans (1963), born in the Netherlands, is regarded as one ofEurope's best trumpet players. He shows an extraordinary talent forplaying original music with an outstanding quality. On his cd'sVloeimans prefers to record original compositions. As a composer hedoes not feel restricted to one particular style, but at the same time,he has managed to create a language of his own. His writing is freshand creative, yet not without feel and respect for the tradition. Thegreat musical talent and the expressive power of the music of EricVloeimans have been honoured by winning the Dutch Edison Award fourtimes, the Boy Edgar Award, the Elly Ameling oeuvre prize and theprestigious Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Eric Vloeimans has been active in a wide variety of ensembles all overthe years. The Eric Vloeimans Quartet and his recent Gatecrash grouphave earned reputations as being Holland's top bands. Vloeimans'performances with a multitude of other formations has shown hisversatility. His musical talent, easy-going attitude and great sense ofhumour have brought him to play with national and internationalartists. Eric Vloeimans has attained a level that enables him to sharethe stage with many of the most reputable and established musicians inthe jazz scene and beyond. He played with Marc Johnson, PierreCourbois, The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Michiel Borstlap,Jeroen van Vliet, Nguyên Lê, Anton Goudsmit, Spinvis, Jimmy Haslip,Lars Danielsson, Michael Moore, Joey Baron, Mercer Ellington, JohnTaylor, Harmen Fraanje, Henny Vrienten and many, many others.

His musical cooperation's have taken Eric Vloeimans abroad many times.With diverse artists and ensembles he played all over Europe, SouthAfrica, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Japan. The experiences from histravels influence his work constantly. The music of Eric Vloeimansshows a remarkable power to create bridges and reach the hearts ofpeople all over the world.

(source: http://www.myspace.com/ericvloeimans)

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(50 min)

Ernst Reijseger speelt met Yo-Yo Ma, Triluk Gurtu, Michael Moore, Han Bennink en Louis Sclavis.

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Ernst Reijseger

Cellist Ernst Reijseger heeft zich sinds de jaren ‘80 en ‘90 van de vorige eeuw met veel succes gericht op avantgarde jazz, eigentijdse klassieke en geïmproviseerde muziek.
Reijseger (1954) begon met cellospelen toen hij acht jaar oud was en raakte al op relatief jonge leeftijd geboeid door de extreme diversiteit aan muzikale vormen en stijlen waar hij op dat moment toegang toe had. Zijn docenten waren Jan Olivier, Anner Bijlsma en René van Ast. In 1974 adviseerde Anner Bijlsma hem te stoppen met zijn opleiding aan het Amsterdams conservatorium en zijn eigen weg te volgen. 
Hij speelde samen met onder meer Burton Greene (1969), Sean Bergin (1975), Martin van Duynhoven, Derek Bailey, Alan Purves en Franky Douglas, Trilok Gurtu en Yo Yo Ma en maakte met hen ook vele opnames. Hij maakte deel uit van het Theo Loevendie Consort, het Guus Janssen Septet, het Arcado Stringtrio, Trio Clusone met Michael Moore en Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool, het Gerry Hemingway quintet, Trio met trompettist Eric Vloeimans en gitarist Anton Goudsmit. 
In 1985 werd hij onderscheiden met de Boy Edgar prize, waaraan zowel door het publiek als door de ontvanger grote waarde wordt toegekend, en in 1995 ontving hij op het Northsea Jazz Festival de Bird Award.
Ernst Reijseger geeft vaak solo-optredens, maar speelt ook regelmatig samen in duo's, zoals met pianist Franco d' Andrea, sopraanklarinettist Louis Sclavis, accordeonist, gitarist, kaval-, mandoline- en pedal steelspeler Stian Carstensen en meesterpianist Simon Nabatov, en trio's, bijvoorbeeld met het Amsterdam String Trio, met Stian Carstensen en drummer Jarle Vespestadt, met zanger Mola Sylla en slagwerker Serigne Gueye uit Senegal, of in kwartet met bassist Mats Eilertsen, klarinetist‑saxofonist Fredrik Ljungkvist en drummer Thomas Strønen. 
Regelmatig geeft hij concerten met drummer-slagwerker Alan Purves, hetzij in een duo, hetzij in een combinatie met de Sardijnse zanggroep Tenores e Concordu de Orosei. 
Projecten waaraan Ernst Reijseger heeft meegewerkt, zijn onder meer Tango y posttango met WDR bigband Köln, met muziek van de pianist-componist-dirigent Gerardo Gandini en bandoneonist Nestor Marconi en de optredens van Barana & Co, bestaande uit Nederlandse en Turkse musici en een drummer-slagwerker uit Iran.
Ernst Reijseger schrijft muziek voor film (Werner Herzog) en documentaires. Zijn composities worden uitgevoerd door celliste Larissa Groeneveld en pianist Frank van de Laar, met Reijseger als derde 'free agent' (cd: Do You Still, uitgebracht door het label Winter & Winter). Op dit moment voert hij een concertante versie uit van de muziek voor de films van Werner Herzog. De titel van zowel de cd als de voorstelling is Requiem for a dying planet.
Reijseger speelt ook graag voor kinderen, zowel op scholen als in theaters, en geeft zo nu en dan cello-workshops.

( Bron ; Site Holland festival )

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(30 min)

‘Nu ga ik een snare solo spelen, dat heb je nog nooit gehoord’.
In 2000 heeft Han Bennink 2 dagen solo gespeeld in een studio, 4 uur slagwerk werd ingekort tot 30 minuten.
 
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Han Bennink

Drummer and multi-instrumentalist Han Bennink was born in Zaandam near Amsterdam in 1942. His first percussion instrument was a kitchen chair. Later his father, an orchestra percussionist, supplied him with a more conventional outfit, but Han never lost his taste for coaxing sounds from unlikely objects he finds backstage at concerts. He is still very fond of playing chairs.
In Holland in the 1960s, Bennink was quickly recognized as an uncommonly versatile drummer. As a hard swinger in the tradition of his hero Kenny Clarke, he accompanied touring American jazz stars, including Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, Johnny Griffin, Eric Dolphy and Dexter Gordon. He is heard with Gordon on the 1969 album "Live at Amsterdam Paradiso" (on the Affinity label) and with Dolphy on 1964's "Last Date" (PolyGram). At the same time, Bennink participated in the creation of a European improvised music which began to evolve a new identity, apart from its jazz roots. With fellow Dutch pioneers, pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Willem Breuker, he founded the musicians collective Instant Composers Pool in 1967. Bennink anchored various bands led by Mengelberg or Breuker, and appeared in their comic music-theater productions.
Bennink attended art school in the 1960s, and is also a successful visual artist in several media, often constructing sculpture from found objects, which may include broken drum heads and sticks. He has designed the covers for many LPs and CDs on which he appears. Bennink is represented by Amsterdam's Galerie Espace, and has been the subject of several one-man shows, including one at the Gemeente Museum in the Hague in 1995.
In 1966, Bennink played the US's Newport Jazz Festival with the Mengelberg quartet. From the late 1960s through the '70s Bennink collaborated frequently with Danish, German, English and Belgian musicians, notably saxophonists John Tchicai and Peter Brötzmann, guitarist Derek Bailey and pianist Fred van Hove. Bennink, Brötzmann and van Hove had a longstanding trio well documented on FMP Records. There Bennink also showcased his talents on clarinet, trombone, soprano saxophone and many other instruments, also featured in a series of solo albums he began in 1971.
Bennink's many recordings from the 1980s include sessions with Mengelberg's ICP Orchestra (where he remains), South African bassist Harry Miller, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, trombonists Roswell Rudd and George Lewis, and big-bandleaders Sean Bergin and Andy Sheppard.
From 1988 to '98 Bennink's main vehicle was Clusone 3, with saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore and cellist Ernst Reijseger, a band noted for its free-wheeling mix of swinging jazz standards, wide-open improvising, and tender ballads. Clusone played Europe and North America, West Africa, China, Vietnam and Australia, and recorded five CDs for Gramavision, hat Art and Ramboy.
These days he is frequently heard with tenor saxophonist Tobias Delius's quartet and in a trio with pianist/keyboardist Cor Fuhler and bassist Wilbert de Joode, and he still collaborates occasionally with jazz luminaries such as Johnny Griffin, Von Freeman and Ray Anderson.
A conspicuous feature of Bennink's musical life since the 1960s is the spontaneous duo concert with musicians of many nationalities and musical inclinations; in the '90s he recorded in duo with among others pianists Mengelberg, Irene Schweizer and Myra Melford, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, trumpeter Dave Douglas and tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin.

( Bron ; www.hanbennink.com )