Evert Fraterman

Evert Jan Fraterman (* 1950 in Arnhem ) is a Dutch rock and fusion musician ( drums ) who lives in Ansbach . He was best known as a drummer in the important German jazz rock band Mild Maniac Orchestra by Volker Kriegel in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Live and act

Fraterman received his first musical training in a children's choir, with which he also performed in Germany and was in Hilversum for recordings on the Dutch radio. As a teenager he moved with his parents from Arnhem to Germany (first Düsseldorf, then Munich). He played in beat and soul groups before he came to rock music via blues rock. In 1970 he founded the prog rock trio Parish Nag with Wolfgang Keilhofer and Hans-Jörg Kerler . In the same year he began studying architecture, but soon switched to studying music, which he completed at the Nuremberg Conservatory .

There he worked as a theater musician and played in the jazz trio of Ken Rhodes , with whom he performed nationally and Europe-wide. Volker Kriegel brought him to his Mild Maniac Orchestra in 1976 , where he worked as a drummer for eight years and was involved in eight albums (such as Biton Grooves ); with the band he was honored in 1982 by the German Phono Academy as "Artist of the Year". In 1978 and 1980 he recorded two albums with Eberhard Schoener , Sting and Andy Summers . He also played as a drummer on two records with Hans Peter Ströer ( Ströer , Nerv ). In 1988 he was involved in the official cultural contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany to the 1988 Summer Olympics , the Seoul Art Disco . He has also appeared with Jack Bruce , Nigel Kennedy , Dick Heckstall-Smith / John Etheridge ( Obsession Fees 1992), Kevin Coyne and Albert Mangelsdorff . In the next few years he concentrated on concerts with Faun , Revolver or Streetlife ; he also founded his own band the fratermen . In addition, he wrote and produced pieces for his CDs playing license , the meaning of the mist and his partially autobiographical book / CD project Wasserfreunde . He can also be heard on albums by Anne Haigis and Serah / Friedemann Dähn . He also works as a drum teacher; so he taught Wolfgang Haffner .

Awards

1982: German record award , "Artist of the Year 1982" , category Ensemble Pop national, with the group Mild Maniac Orchestra .

literature

Burghard König (ed.): Jazz rock: tendencies of modern music. Rowohlt 1983, ISBN 3-499-17766-8 .
Jürgen Schwab, Harald Hertel, Office for Science and Art, Jazz Institute Darmstadt, Hessischer Rundfunk: The Frankfurt Sound: a city and its jazz history (s). Societätsverlag 2004, ISBN 3-797-30888-4 , p. 215; P. 313.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Fraterman, Evert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fraterman, Evert Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch rock and fusion musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arnhem

[1] wiesentbote.de of August 29, 2011: View over the fence: Steve Lauer and “The Professionals” in the Lichtenfels City Palace

[2] Mainpost: The cult band "Revolver" rocked the town hall at their first appearance in Haßfurt.

[3] Portrait of Wolfgang Haffner (BR-Klassik)

[4] Certificate of the German Record Award on www.hpstroeer.com