Joe van Enkhuizen
Joe van Enkhuizen (* 24. June 1939 in Wormerveer as Joop van Enkhuizen ) is a Dutch jazz musician ( accordion , saxophone ) and composer .
Live and act
Joe van Enkhuizen began his musical training with a button accordion that his grandfather gave him as a present. In 1956 he also started playing the saxophone. Van Enkhuizen worked for Chris Hinze in France for some time in the 1960s . Back in the Netherlands he played in Han Tromp's Zaan's Rhythm Quintet ; His first album was released in 1965 on the Imperial label . With his own quartet he won the Loosdrecht Jazz Concours in 1965 .
After two decades of silence, he had a comeback in the mid-1980s with recordings for the Dutch jazz label Criss Cross Jazz ; On the 1985 album Back on the Scene , the saxophonist played with Cees Slinger , John Clayton and Alvin Queen . With the accompanying musicians Rufus Reid , Horace Parlan and Al Harewood , he recorded the album Joe Mets the Rhythm Section in 1986 . This is followed by four albums with Duke Ellington's Mood Pieces , a. a. with the pianist Benny Green . In 1989 the trio album Blues Ahead with Han Bennink and Carlo Dewys was created on Timeless Records . In 1990 he had a trio with Bennink and Rein de Graaff , with whom he worked on Major Holley's timeless album Major's Step .
Since 2000 van Enkhuizen has been playing the accordion instead of the saxophone and has also been active as a composer. He also plays with the Joe van Enkhuizen Europeanjazz Trio , to which Bert van den Brink and Pierre Courbois belong.
The authors Cook and Morton reminds van Enkhuizen's saxophone playing of the rhythm and blues bands of the American South.
Discographic notes
- So Why (1965, Imperial)
- Jazzaan vol. 1 (1979, CBS)
- Jazzaan vol. 2 , (1984, CBS)
- Back on the scene , (1984, Criss Cross)
- Joe meets the Rhythm section (1986, Timeless Records )
- Ellington Ballads (1988, Timeless)
- Blues Ahead (1989, Timeless)
- Major Step , ( 1990 , Timeless)
- Ellington my way (1992, Timeless)
- The European way of Jazz vol. 1 , (2001. Munich Rec.)
- European Ballads , ( 2007 )
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- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enkhuizen, Joe van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Enkhuizen, Joop van (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wormerveer |