Han Bennink

Hendrikus Johannes " Han" Bennink ( born April 17, 1942 in Zaandam, Netherlands) is a Dutch drummer and multi-instrumentalist. The musician, who repeatedly extended the drums also to everyday objects or played at an extremely reduced set was instrumental in the development of free jazz and European nature has reclaimed his performances and theatrical and parodic effects.

Life and work

Bennink, son of a classically trained drummer, his instrument still learned as an autodidact. Soon he was playing all kinds of music, including jazz, at first mainly with Misha Mengelberg. In 1964 he accompanied, Mengelberg and Jacques Schols Eric Dolphy at concerts in the Netherlands ( album Last Date). Next he appeared with Don Byas and Ben Webster. He was also a member of a quartet to Mengelberg and the alto saxophonist Piet Noordijk, which played in 1966 at the Newport Jazz Festival. In 1967 he received the Wessel Ilken award as the best Dutch jazz musicians.

Closely linked with Bennink's own career is the direction and development of free jazz in Holland; together with Mengelberg and Willem Breuker, with whom he worked both as a duo as well ( until 1973 ) of larger formations, he founded the Instant Composers Pool, which acts today as a musician own label. In the late 1960s he transformed his experiences with the more traditional forms of play jazz in a drumming style, the "swing and drive includes and yet provides a paradoxical way in question. " Here, the musician approaches his -; was also to instruments and Viola extended - instruments in the attitude " of the researcher and inventor, who searches through the experimental manipulation of things, what you can do with it. "

In 1971, he was with Don Cherry in Europe on tour and appeared at the Berlin Jazz Festival. He consolidated his international reputation as a trio Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink, the 1970-1975 regular basis played (initially also partially extended to Albert Mangelsdorff ). Then he worked with Derek Bailey's Improvisation Platform Company ( since 1976) as well as with numerous other avant-garde formations. He also focused on solo performances ( LPs Han Bennink solo, 1978 and Tempo Comodo, 1982) and especially on gigs as a duo: It originated duet recordings with Bailey, Brötzmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Steve Beresford, Myra Melford, Dave Douglas, Cecil Taylor, Irene Schweizer, Ellery Eskelin and over again with Misha Mengelberg. He is, however, also occurred with Art Hodes, Tom Cora, Lee Konitz, Major Holley, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Von Freeman and Percy Sledge.

Bennik and Mengelberg call getting back together, the ICP Orchestra, in which especially the Amsterdam musicians play in a medium sized cast together. Other groups were the trio Clusone 3 with Michael Moore and Ernst Reijseger, and the trio with Ray Anderson and Christy Doran, and since 2008 with clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and Simon Toldam and BBG Trio with Michiel Borstlap and Ernst Glerum. Bennink occasionally occurs even with the punk band The Ex and the quartet of Tobias Delius.

As a trained graphic artist Bennink designed the cover of numerous records and CDs.

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