Nico Bunink

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Floris Nico Bunink (* 22. April 1936 in Amsterdam ; † 26. December 2001 ibid ) was a Dutch jazz pianist .

Live and act

In 1955 he and his quartet reached the finals of the jazz competition of the Dutch AVRO radio. In 1956 he went to Paris, where he played with Lucky Thompson , but also with Barney Wilen and Kenny Clarke and other American jazz musicians. He then moved to North America and attended the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959 . There he played in Gunther Schuller's ensemble with Perry Robinson . In 1959 and 1960 he was a member of the octet and tentet of Charles Mingus and involved in the recordings of Mingus Dynasty and the records of Candid . In 1960 he also recorded with Lee Konitz ( Wild Blues ). He also played with Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday , with Lester Young and with Zoot Sims , with Chet Baker and with the Montgomery Brothers . In 1969 he performed several times in a duo with Mingus.

In 1972 he returned to Europe, where he worked as a jazz pianist in France, Spain and the Netherlands both with his own groups and with American musicians such as Jimmy Knepper . In 1974 he settled in Amsterdam again. For several years he accompanied the singer Soesja Citroen . In 1979 there were recordings with Jimmy Knepper's sextet. In 1988 he performed together with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen . In 1989 he played with John Surman , Barre Phillips and Pierre Favre . In 1993 he led his own trio, with which he also appeared in the Bimhuis .

Discographic notes

  • Soesja Citroen met het Nico Bunink Kwintet Good Enough for Jazz (VARA 1981)
  • Kenny Wheeler , Piet Noordijk , Fred Leeflang, Ferdinand Povel , Gijs Hendriks , Jan Voogd, John Engels De Varajazz All Stars (VARA 1982)
  • Floris Nico Bunink - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Breaking the Ice (BVHaast 1999, rec. 1988)
  • Ingenium Amstelodamense (Daybreak 2006, rec. 1999–2000 with Pablo Nahar, Joost van Schaik , Jan Menu)
  • En blanc et noir # 5 (Daybreak 2012, rec. 1999–2000 with Raphaëlle Brochet, Pablo Nahar, Joost van Schaik, Jan Menu)

Lexical entry

Remarks

  1. ^ According to Brian Priestley (in the liner notes of Jimmy Knepper's album Muted Joys (1957/1979)), Bunink was - with the exception of Philip Catherine - the only European musician who had ever worked and recorded with Mingus in the USA. However, Jiri Mraz is ignored. Mingus has also made recordings with European and Japanese jazz musicians in Italy, Great Britain and Japan.
  2. ^ Brian Priestley Mingus: A Critical Biography London 1985, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Bunink, Nico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunink, Floris Nico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2001
Place of death Amsterdam