Kees Hazevoet

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Cornelis Jan "Kees" Hazevoet (born March 15, 1948 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch pianist and clarinetist (also trumpet) of free jazz , who has been working exclusively as a zoologist since 1980 .

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Hazevoet was one of the pioneers of free jazz in Holland. As a teenager he had private piano lessons, he attended workshops with Theo Loevendie , but was not admitted to the conservatory. He played jazz professionally from 1963 and turned to free jazz around 1965 , particularly influenced by Albert Ayler . He was a member of one of the first groups of Willem Breuker (1966) and played on his debut album . In 1970 he formed a quartet with the (alto) saxophonist Kris Wanders , the bassist Arjen Gorter (whom he knew from school) and the South African drummer Louis Moholo ("Pleasure" 1970). He also played with Hans Dulfer (1970/71), with whom he also recorded in 1970. With his group “Haazz & Company” he recorded “Unlawful Noise” in 1976 (with Moholo, Johnny Dyani , Peter Brötzmann , Peter and Han Bennink , live from the Bimhuis ). His collaboration with Han Bennink began in 1967 and lasted until 1980. Both records were reissued by Atavistic . As sources of inspiration he named the non-romantic nature and the music itself as a natural phenomenon.

In 1980 he gave up his jazz career and studied zoology (doctorate in 1996 at the University of Amsterdam). Since 1998 he has been curator for ornithology at the Natural History Museum of the University of Lisbon. He is the author of the "Birds of the Cape Verde Islands", British Ornithological Union 1995 ( ISBN 0-907446-17-5 ). He is co-editor of Atlantic Seabirds magazine. In addition to ornithology, he is also active in whale watching (with Wenzel "Whales and Dolphins of the Cape Verde Islands", Contributions to Zoology Vol. 69, 2000).

In 1972 he received the Boy Edgar Prize . He was also one of the founders of the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.

In the 1970s he was secretary of the Jazz in Nederland Foundation .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to Wim van Eyle u. a. Jazz & Geimproviseerde Muziek in Nederland , Het Spectrum 1978
  2. ↑ after Hazevoet they weren't even aware that the concert was being recorded
  3. ↑ of "Pleasure" (Peace Records) only 250 copies had been sold before! [1]
  4. ↑ Wim van Eyle et al. a., loc. cit.
  5. ↑ letter in
personal data
SURNAME Hazevoet, Kees
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hazevoet, Cornelis Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz pianist and clarinetist; zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam