Han Bennink

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Han Bennink on December 17th, 2005 at Club W71

Hendrikus Johannes "Han" Bennink (born April 17, 1942 in Zaandam , Netherlands ) is a Dutch drummer and multi-instrumentalist. The musician, who has repeatedly added everyday items to the drums or played on an extremely reduced set, was significantly involved in the development of free jazz with European characteristics and also gained theatrical and parodic effects from his performances.

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Han Bennink plays on the stage floor of the INNtöne Jazz Festival 2019

Bennink, son of a classically trained drummer, nevertheless learned his instrument as an autodidact . Soon he was playing all kinds of music, including a. also jazz, first in the Accoustic Swing Duo with his brother Peter , then mainly with Misha Mengelberg . In 1964 he, Mengelberg and Jacques Schols accompanied Eric Dolphy to concerts in the Netherlands (album Last Date ). He also performed with Don Byas and Ben Webster . He was also a member of a quartet around Mengelberg and the alto saxophonist Piet Noordijk , who played at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966 . In 1967 he received the Wessel-Ilken Prize for the best Dutch jazz musician. Closely linked to Bennink's own career is the direction and development of free jazz in Holland; Together with Mengelberg and Willem Breuker , with whom he worked both as a duo and (until 1973) in larger formations, he founded the Instant Composers Pool , which is still the musician's own label. At the end of the 1960s he transformed his experiences with the more traditional forms of playing jazz into a drum style that “ includes swing and drive and yet at the same time paradoxically questions them.” In doing so, the musician approaches his - meanwhile expanded to include wind instruments and viola - Instruments in the attitude of "the researcher and inventor who explores what can be done with things through experimental handling."

In 1971 he was on a concert tour with Don Cherry in Europe and performed at the Berlin Jazz Days . He consolidated his international fame in the Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink trio , which played regularly between 1970 and 1975 (initially also partially expanded to include Albert Mangelsdorff ). Then he worked with Derek Bailey's improvisation platform Company (since 1976) as well as with numerous other avant-garde formations. He also concentrated on solo performances (LPs Han Bennink Solo , 1978 and Tempo Comodo , 1982) and especially on appearances as a duo: duo recordings with Bailey, Brötzmann, Eugene Chadbourne , Steve Beresford , Myra Melford , Dave Douglas were made , Cecil Taylor , Irène Schweizer , Ellery Eskelin and again and again with Misha Mengelberg. He has also performed with Art Hodes , Tom Cora , Lee Konitz , Major Holley , Sonny Rollins , Conny Bauer , Johnny Griffin , Von Freeman and Percy Sledge .

Bennik and Mengelberg repeatedly call the ICP-Orchestra together, in which mainly Amsterdam musicians play together in a medium-sized cast. Further groups were the Trio Clusone 3 with Michael Moore and Ernst Reijseger , as well as the trios with Ray Anderson and Christy Doran and since 2008 with clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and pianist Simon Toldam and in the BBG trio with Michiel Borstlap and Ernst Glerum . Bennink occasionally appears with the punk band The Ex and in Tobias Delius' quartet .

As a trained graphic artist , Bennink designed the covers of numerous records and CDs .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ekkehard Jost European Jazz 1960-80 , Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 123f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bennink, Han
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennink, Hendrikus Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch drummer and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaandam , Netherlands