Eric Vloeimans
Eric Vloeimans (born March 24, 1963 in Huizen , North Holland Province ) is a Dutch jazz trumpeter .
Live and act
Vloeimans studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam before graduating with honors from the Rotterdam University of Music . He then went to New York City to supplement his training , where he took lessons from Donald Byrd and played in the big bands of Mercer Ellington and Frank Foster . Together with Dick de Graaf , he founded the group Chazz in 1990 , which received very good reviews and performed at the Festival of the European Broadcasting Union in Vienna and at the North Sea Jazz Festival . In 1992 he founded his own quartet that toured the Middle East and recorded the CD "Bestiarum" with Peter Less . In the mid-1990s he played with Jasper van't Hof , Pierre Courbois , Masha Bijlsma , Michiel Borstlap , Ernst Reijseger , Vitold Rek and Ralf Hübner . With John Taylor , Marc Johnson and Joey Baron he recorded the album "Bitches and Fairy Tales" (1998). In other projects he played with Ali Haurand's European Jazz Ensemble , with Charlie Mariano , Aldo Romano , Nguyên Lê , Willem Breuker , Theo Jörgensmann , Chris Beckers and Chris Hinze .
Vloeimans gives master classes at the music academies in Brussels, Utrecht , Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Helsinki .
Prizes and awards
In 1999 he received the Edison Prize . In 2000, the nomination for the Bird Award followed . Finally he received the prestigious Boy Edgar Prize in 2001 .
Discography
Albums
- No Realistics (1992)
- First Floor (1994)
- Bestiary (1996)
- Bitches and Fairy Tales (1998)
- Umai (2000)
- Gross gusto (2002)
- VoizNoiz 3
- Hidden history
- Boompetit (2004)
- Summersault (2006)
- Hyper (2008)
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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 NL
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| 2007 | Gate crashin ' |
NL96 (1 week) NL |
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| 2009 | Live at Yoshi's |
NL55 (5 weeks) NL |
Eric Vloeimans' Fugimundi
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| 2011 | Kytecrash |
NL5 (20 weeks) NL |
Colin Benders & Eric Vloeimans
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| Live at the Concertgebouw |
NL99 (1 week) NL |
Eric Vloeimans & Florian Weber
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| 2013 | Evensong |
NL48 (2 weeks) NL |
Eric Vloeimans & the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
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| Oliver's Cinema |
NL37 (2 weeks) NL |
Eric Vloeimans, Tuur Florizoone & Jörg Brinkmann
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| Old, New & Blue |
NL31 (7 weeks) NL |
Holland Baroque Society & Eric Vloeimans
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| 2015 | Oliver's Cinema - Act 2 |
NL37 (1 week) NL |
Eric Vloeimans, Tuur Florizoone & Jörg Brinkmann
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| 2018 | Levant |
NL86 (1 week) NL |
Eric Vloeimans, Jeroen van Vliet & Kinan Azmeh
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Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 , p. 1422.
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Web links
- Web presence
- Summersault meeting (German)
- Eric Vloeimans at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vloeimans, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huizen |