Jorrit Dijkstra

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Jorrit Dijkstra (* 1966 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch jazz saxophonist.

Live and act

Dijkstra studied improvisation and composition with Misha Mengelberg , Steve Coleman , Steve Lacy and Lee Hyla . Since 1985 he has been active in the Amsterdam jazz scene. He worked with several bands of his own: the trio Jorrit Dijkstra (from 1990 to 1997), to which the percussionist Steve Argüelles and the bassist Mischa Kool belonged and with whom he recorded three CDs, the electroacoustic trio Tone Dialing with Paul Pallesen and Steve Heather as well as the group Drones in the Bones with Paul Pallesen, Joost Buis , Tom and Phil Bancroft and Simon Thoumire , which was founded in 1995 as a result of the Glasgow Jazz Festival and dedicated itself to a mix of folk music and jazz. He was also a member of the Canadian group Talking Pictures (along with founders Ron Samworth , Bill Clark , Peggy Lee and Dylan van der Schyff ). In addition, he worked a. a. with Anthony Braxton , Gerry Hemingway , Marty Ehrlich , Eckard Koltermann , Herb Robertson , Frans Vermeerssen , Jim Black , Barre Phillips , Marc Ducret , Willem Breuker , Guus Janssen , Maurice Horsthuis , Jaap Blonk , John Butcher and Thomas Lehn .

In 1998 Dijkstra went to Boston , where he studied and taught at the New England Conservatory . He works there a. a. with Curt Newton , Chris Allen , James Coleman , Charlie Kohlhase and Andrew Neumann . In Amsterdam he leads the band Sound-Lee! , to which Guus Janssen , Raoul van der Weide and Wim Janssen belong. He also appears in a duo with John Hollenbeck .

Discography

  • Jorrit Dijkstra: Pillow Circles
  • Jorrit Dijkstra & John Hollenbeck: Sequence
  • Jorrit Dijkstra solo: 30 micro-stems
  • Mosaic: Yes!
  • Bite the Gnatze: Wilde Dans
  • Bite the Gnatze: Throw the Plates
  • Tone Dialing: Elektrodoki
  • Trio Jorrit Dijkstra and Benoît Delbecq : European Echoes
  • Trio Jorrit Dijkstra and Stuart Hall: Whistle
  • Talking Pictures and Jorrit Dijkstra: Humming
  • Sound Lee! plays the music of Lee Konitz
  • Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop , Pandelis Karayorgis , Nate McBride : Cutout (2020)

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personal data
SURNAME Dijkstra, Jorrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Eindhoven