Benita Haastrup
Benita Haastrup (* 1964 ) is a Danish jazz - drummer and percussionist.
Live and act
Haastrup graduated from the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in 1992 . For a long time she played in the orchestras of Finn Ziegler and Richard Boone . She worked u. a. with Maj-Britt Kramer , Elly Wright , Andy Sheppard , John Tchicai and Simon Spang-Hanssen as well as with Marius Neset , Fredrik Kronkvist and Magnus Hjorth . She performed with Muhal Richard Abrams , John Tchicai and Pierre Dørge at the Jazzpar Award ceremony .
Haastrup released the album Sunrise under his own name in 2009 . She belonged to the trio The Sophisticated Ladies (at times expanded to a sextet) , with whom she presented two albums and was also on tour in East Africa. In 2005 and 2006 she toured Germany and Austria with Marilyn Mazur's group Percussion Paradise , founded in 2000 .
In 1998 she received the Ben Webster Prize . Since 2004 she has been teaching at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
Discographic notes
- Elly Wright: Listen To My Plea (Groove Records, 1991)
- John Tchicai & Yusef Komunyakaa: Love Notes from the Madhouse (8th Harmonic Breakdown, 1998)
- Maj-Britt Kramer: Something About Heroes ( Stunt Records , 1999)
- Marilyn Mazur: All the Birds (Stunt Records, 2002)
- Mazel: Mazel Un Brukhe (Kjuchek Records, 2004)
Web links
- Web presence of Benita Haastrup
- Benita Haastrup at Allmusic (English)
- Benita Haastrup at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online) accessed December 27, 2013
- ^ Marilyn Mazur & Percussion Paradise. ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. jazzdimensions.de
- ↑ Brief portrait (Jazzpar)
- ↑ "Listen To My Plea" album
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haastrup, Benita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |