Masha Bijlsma

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Masha Bijlsma (born May 5, 1971 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch jazz singer .

Live and act

Bijlsma first played the piano and bass guitar before she started singing at the age of 19. At first she was with the hard rock - band Caveman active. In 1990 she studied singing at the Arnhem Conservatory , but dropped out after a short time because, in the opinion of her ensemble teachers, she was too little out of herself and experimenting too little with her voice. In the same year she founded the Masha Bijlsma Band with Ge Bijvoet on piano, Eric van der Westen on bass and her father, the drummer Dries Bijlsma. In 1992 she performed at the Gronau Jazz Festival ; Her debut album was released in 1994. Her second album Lebo (with the composition Low Down by Jasper van't Hof , a childhood friend of her father's, with lyrics by Bijlsma) was well received and reminded the Volkskrant critic of the young Rita Reys . Her long-standing companion band (Masha Bijlsma Band) included the pianist Rob van den Broeck (since the late 1990s, he also arranged for her), the bassist Henk de Ligt and Dries Bijlsma - she also performs and records with brass instruments such as the trombonist Bart van Lier or the saxophonist Tony Lakatos , the trumpeter Benny Bailey , the saxophonist Gary Thomas , the trombonist Adrian Mears . With her own band she toured not only in the Netherlands, but also in Germany, but also in Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the USA, Great Britain and Indonesia. She performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival , among others .

In addition to jazz standards (such as Work Song by Nat Adderley or First Song by Charlie Haden , which she named in honor of Abbey Lincoln Song for Abbey , or Ruby my Dear by Thelonious Monk ), she also uses pop songs and chansons in her programs. She uses different styles such as scat singing and writes her own texts for her interpretations.

She has two children, which is why she took a career break in the mid-2000s.

Discography

  • Winds of Change , Challenge, 1994, with Eric Vloeimans
  • Lebo , Jazzline 1996, (with Bob Malach )
  • Profile , Jazzline 1999 (was nominated for the Edison Award in 2000, with Tony Lakatos and the accompanying band Rob van den Broeck, Stefan Lievestro (bass), Dries Bíjlsma).
  • Lopin , Lion Jazz 2003,
  • Whisper and Moans , Lion Jazz 2009 (with Bart van Lier, Tony Lakatos)
  • For Love of Abbey , Lion Jazz 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On your CD Profile
  2. ↑ On the Lopin album
personal data
SURNAME Bijlsma, Masha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th May 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht