Hein van de Geyn

Hein van de Geyn (* 1956) is a Dutch jazz bassist and composer.

Van de Geyn had a classical music education (recorder, violin ) and then switched to the guitar and finally as an adolescent on the bass guitar. He played in South Holland Dixieland Jazz and formed a bebop band, with whom he appeared on the 1977 Jazz Festival in Laren, where he was honored as the best soloist. He also played with the trio of Erik Vermeulen. He switched to the double bass. On the Conservatory in Tilburg he completed a (classical ) music education before enrolling in jazz study program of the Rotterdam Conservatory. He is the artistic director of the Jazz Department since 2008.

He went to the U.S. to educate yourself first played with Mark Lewis, then moved to Seattle and San Francisco. Van de Geyn came in 1985 back and has since played with musicians such as Jean " Toots " Thielemans, Chet Baker, Philip Catherine, Lee Konitz, Jack van Poll, Tal Farlow and Dee Dee Bridgewater and the band project baseline established, in which John Abercrombie several years participated.

Van de Geyn is estimated both as a soloist and as a companion. He teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1998, he won the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He was also the most votes in a competition of the Belgian radio station RTBF and VRT as " Best European Acoustic Bassist" unite in coming. In 2002 he received for Tenderly with Paulien van Schaik the Audience Award at the Edison Jazz Award.

Selection Discography

• " Meets - Van de Geyn / Konitz " (1990)
• " Returns - Base Line" (1996, with John Ruocco )
• " Woodwind Works - Hein Van de Geyn " (1999)
• " Guitars - Base Line" (2006)