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Encyclopedia > Willem Breuker

Willem Breuker (b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944) is a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist. Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. ...


In 1967, with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool (ICP), with whom he regularly performed until 1973. Han Bennink (born April 17, 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. ... Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. ...


Since 1974 he has led the 10-piece Willem Breuker Kollektief, which performs jazz in a theatrical and often unconventional manner, drawing elements from theater and vaudeville. With the group, he has toured Western Europe, Russia, Australia, India, China, and Japan, the United States, and Canada.


He is also known as an authority on the music of Kurt Weill. In 1997 he produced, with Carrie de Swaan, a 48-hour, 12-part radio documentary on the life of Weill entitled Componist Kurt Weill. Kurt Weill, a photo taken in Salzburg, Austria, 1934 Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York, was a German composer active from the 1920s until his death. ...


In 1974 he founded the record label BVHaast. Since 1977 he has organized the annual Klap op de Vuurpijl (Top It All) festival in Amsterdam. His scores are published by Haast Music Publishers, which he also operates.


In 1992, the book Willem Breuker, by J. and F. Buzelin, was published in France by Editions de Limon. A Dutch translation was published in 1994 by Uitgeverij Walburg Pers. The book Willem Breuker Kollektief: Celebrating 25 Years on the Road was published by BVHaast in 1999 and includes two CDs


In 1998, Breuker was named Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion). The Order of the Dutch Lion (De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw) is an order (decoration) of the Netherlands which was first created in 1815 by the first King of the Netherlands, King William I. The Order of the Dutch Lion was until recently awarded upon eminent individuals from all...


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VH1.com : Willem Breuker : Biography (1878 words)
Breuker was eventually kicked out of the band rather publicly and had to relinquish the bass clarinet after a T.V. appearance by the band at the Loosdrecht jazz festival.
Breuker was quickly more interested in playing originals as opposed to jazz standards, and so, he began composing in the early '60s.
Breuker led a trio with Bennink and Altena (essentially, Mengelberg's quartet without Mengelberg) and performed in a trio with Brotzmann and Bennink in 1968.
Jazz Concert Review - Willem Breuker Kollektief at Jazz Alley@ jazzreview.com (1301 words)
Breuker played strictly soprano saxophone in Seattle, again proving himself to be among the most advanced players of this demanding horn on the contemporary creative improvised and composed music scene.
Breuker’s volcanic soprano solo on the second tune was spiced with an assortment of extra-musical schtick from the other musicians, including scratching the top of his head as he played, taking a few vaudevillian twists and turns about the stage, and engaging in some goggle-eyed pantomime.
The Willem Breuker Kollektief is a truly unique group, blending irreverent whimsy, orchestral precision that – in the words of an unnamed critic quoted in their press release – “would be the envy of most philharmonics” and bravura improvised solos mining virtually every era and style of jazz.
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