Boy Raaymakers

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Boy Raaymakers (* 1944 ; † December 30 or 31, 2018 ) was a Dutch jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , composition).

Live and act

Raaymakers studied at the Conservatory in Arnhem and was the mid-1960s the driving jazz innovator in Nijmegen . He first played in the local Charlestown Jazz Band Dixieland . In 1967 he switched to free jazz . In the same year he toured Europe with Pierre Courbois' Free Music Quintet . Then he started his own group that included Burton Greene and Noel McGhee . He was involved in recording new music and played in the bands of Boy Edgar , Theo Loevendie and Orkest De Boventon , of which he was co-leader with Herman de Wit between 1979 and 1989. In 1974 Willem Breuker brought him into his collection as a founding member , to which he remained committed for more than three decades (until 2006). He also founded his own quartet with Maarten van Norden in 1977 , which initially included Arjen Gorter and Rob Verdurmen and which released the LP Chicken Song in 1979 . He also played in the Waterland Big Band of Loek Dikker , in the band of JC Tans ( Around the World ) and accompanied with the sextet of Michiel Braam greetje bijma . He can also be heard on albums by Gruppo Sportivo and Sean Bergin .

Discographic notes

  • Free Music Quintet Free Music 1 & 2 ( ESP 1968, with Peter van de Locht , Erwin Somer, Ferdi Rikkers, Pierre Courbois)
  • Pierre Courbois, Edgar M. Böhlke , Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , Erwin Sommer, Ferdi Rickers, Boy Raaymakers, Peter van de Locht Free Music & Orgel (Schwann 1969)
  • Quintet Boy Raaijmakers (Eurosound 1974)
  • Maarten Van Norden / Boy Raaymakers Quartet Chicken Song (BVHaast 1979, with Arjen Gorter , Peter Nykyruj)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jean & Françoise Buzelin Willem Breuker Editions Parenthèses: Marseille 1992, p. 88
  2. ↑ Obituary
  3. ↑ Peter van de Locht: Interview
  4. ↑ No, this is de kwart. Hello De Volkskrant , March 31, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Raaymakers, boy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raaijmakers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2018 or December 31, 2018