Joost Buis

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Joost Buis (2017 at the Cologne Eight Bridges Concert of the David Kweksilber Big Band in the WDR Funkhaus )

Joost Buis (born December 31, 1966 in Badhoevedorp ) is a Dutch jazz and improvisation musician (trombone, composition).

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Buis received trombone and euphonium lessons at school. He was a member of the local Post Wind Orchestra for ten years, but also played bass guitar in the school band. He studied classical trombone and music theory at the Arnhem Conservatory; He also attended workshops with Sean Bergin , Peter Bennink , Martin van Duynhoven , JC Tans and Nico Bunink in Apeldoorn . In 2000 he took lessons from Roswell Rudd .

At the end of the 1980s he moved to Amsterdam, where he first appeared in the groups of Vera Vingerhoeds and Corrie van Binsbergen and completed a US tour with the Willem Breuker Kollektief . One of the first albums Buis was involved in was Binsbergens Alles beweegt (1990). Since 1989 he worked with Jacques and Bert Palinckx , the following year also with Bo van de Graafs I Compani . In 1991 he became a member of Sean Bergins MOB, with whom he recorded two albums; from 1992 he belongs to the Bik Bent Braam . During the Holland Festival in 1994 he took part in the performances of the opera Noach by Guus Janssen .

Since the mid-1990s Buis has directed the tentet Astronotes , with which he has performed his own compositions and a. performed in the United States, Canada and Belgium. At a concert series in 2003, the group introduced guests such as Misha Mengelberg , Ab Baars, Jaap Blonk and Bart Maris . Other groups that Buis leads are the Sliphorn Quartet (with Paul Pallesen , Ernst Glerum and Han Bennink ) and the Trio Snap, Crackle & Pop (with Alan Purves and Wilbert de Joode ). In 2004 Buis released the album Astronotes as band leader . At the North Sea Jazz Festival 2006 Buis performed the program Forms of Cloud as a commissioned composition with the Joost Buis Tentet .

Buis also played with Willem van Manen 's contraband . In 1998 he became a member of the guitarist Paul Pallesen's band Bite the Gnatze . He is also a member of the Ab Baars Quartet and (since 2005) the Spinifex Orchestra . In 2003 he was part of Drummer's Double Bill, drummers Arend Niks and Rob Verdurmen . Since 2016 he has also been a member of David Kweksilber's big band , which also performs his works.

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SURNAME Buis, Joost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Badhoevedorp