Bass Player Composer

Bass Player Composer

1970

 

My brother Ruud and I performing our first concert

1980

 

My first bass guitar.

1983

 

My first schoolband with drummer Hans Verdoorn

1985

 

At the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where I studied from 1983 to 1989

1989

 

in 1989 I was asked to substitute fred Hopkins on a tour with David and Sunny Murray. My first international breakthrough starting a long term collaboration with both Jazz heroes. They taught me so much about Jazz and the life around it.

1990

 

My first album with my own band featuring Maarten Ornstein, Ben van den Dungen, Erik Doelman and Hans Verdoorn.

Listen here.

1990

 

Maarten Ornstein and I have been playing since the very beginning of our careers. Here we are relaxing in the south of France.

1991

 

With Yuri Honing and Joost Lijbaart we formed the Yuri Honing Trio and toured for almost 25 years. And still we work together in different formats.

1994

 

The album Motion Music marks my first album on my label Jazz in Motion Records and the start of another lifelong collaboration with High End sound guru Harry van Dalen.