Eric Vloeimans
Eric Vloeimans ( born March 24, 1963 in Huizen, North Holland Province) is a Dutch jazz trumpeter.
Life and work
Vloeimans studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam before he completed his primary studies at the Rotterdam Academy of Music with distinction. He then went for a supplement his education to New York City, where he took lessons with Donald Byrd and played in the big bands of Mercer Ellington and Frank Foster. Together with Dick de Graaf 1990 he founded the group Chazz, which received very good reviews and appeared at the Festival of the European Broadcasting Union in Vienna and at the North Sea Jazz Festival. In 1992 he founded his own quartet that toured the Middle East and also with Peter Weniger the CD " bestiary " grossed. The mid-1990s playing with Jasper van't Hof, Pierre Courbois, Masha Bijlsma, Michiel Borstlap, Serious Reijseger, Vitold Rek and Ralf Hübner. With John Taylor, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron, he recorded the album " Bitches and Fairy Tales" (1998). In other projects, he played with Ali Haurands European Jazz Ensemble, with Charlie Mariano, Aldo Romano, Nguyên Lê, Willem Breuker, Theo Jörgensmann, Chris Becker and Chris Hinze.
Vloeimans gives master classes at the music academies in Brussels, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Helsinki.
Prizes and awards
In 1999 he received the Edison Award. In 2000, the nomination for the Bird Award followed. Finally, he received the 2001 prestigious Boy Edgar Prize.
Discography
- No Realistics (1992 )
- First Floor (1994 )
- Bestiary (1996 )
- Bitches And Fairy Tales ( 1998)
- Umai (2000)
- Brutto Gusto (2002)
- VoizNoiz 3
- Hidden History
- Boom Petit (2004)
- Summersault (2006)
- Gatecrashin ' (2007)
- Hyper (2008)
- Kytecrash (2011, with Colin Benders )
- Eric Vloeimans ' Oliver 's Cinema (2013 )
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16513-9, p 1422