Jazz Articles about Han Bennink

Han Bennink: Monk Volume One

by Mark Corroto
March 28, 2009

Pity the straight man that has to play alongside the comedic drummer Han Bennink. In his 50+ years of music making, no gesture, tap, thump, or strike has gone unnoticed. And while he has covered the music of Thelonious Monk before, never has Monk, as interpreted by Bennink, sounded better.On paper this recording, a piano trio, figures for a standard trip around Monk's planet. Funny how this music was considered odd or strange, back in the day. The ...

Han Bennink: Monk Volume One

by John Kelman
February 11, 2009

With so many tribute albums to jazz icon Thelonious Monk already made, it's hard to imagine how much more can be added to the pianist's canon without becoming redundant. Perhaps, however, it's not all that surprising that an album of Monk material featuring Dutch wildman/drummer Han Bennink, piano phenom Michiel Borstalp and bassist Ernst Glerum, would find fresh new ways to interpret Monk's body of work and, with no shortage of New Dutch Swing, bring its own sense of playful ...

Han Bennink: Amplified Trio and People I Like

by Ivana Ng
September 7, 2008

Han Bennink Amplified Trio Treader 2007 The Blueprint Project People I Like Improvised Communications 2007 Han Bennink's virtuosic drumming and irresistible joviality are in high demand. While visiting the UK in 2006, the Dutch percussionist was invited to record with John Coxon (electric guitar) and Ashley Wales (electronics/samples), the duo collectively known as ...

Daniele D'Agaro Adriatics Orchestra: Comeglians

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 13, 2007

Metti una splendida serata d’agosto in un piccolo pesino di montagna sperduto tra le alpi Carniche, provincia di Udine (Comeglians non è uno strano vocabolo creolo, ma il nome tipicamente friulano di una località). Immagina una band di musicisti fuori dall’ordinario, composta da giovani talenti nostrani e da un terzetto di eccezionali improvvisatori olandesi. Aggiungi al tutto un “deus ex machina” in forma smagliante, strabordante di splendide intuizioni e nel pieno di un periodo alquanto felice dal punto di vista ...

The Blueprint Project with Han Bennink: People I Like

by Nic Jones
August 14, 2007

The Blueprint Project's fourth release finds them working with Han Bennink, one of the greatest drummers to come out of Europe, so there can be no faulting their choice of company. The music they make together is nothing short of glorious.

The program of group originals is understandably well tailored to the trio's distinctive group conception, something they've had the chance to hone over a period of time, and Bennink brings his characteristic work to bear in a way that's ...

The Blueprint Project with Han Bennink: People I Like

by Mark Corroto
August 14, 2007

Adding drummer Han Bennink to a recording with an established group is like inviting a seven year old into your china shop after he has downed a couple of Red Bulls. Both are impossible to ignore, and you know your world will be changed forever.

This is The Blueprint Project's second official release, fourth if you count their prior unnamed collaborations. The trio consisting of Jared Sims(reeds), Eric Hofbauer(guitar), and Tyson Rogers(piano) met at Boston's New England Conservatory ...

Bennink/Clark/Glerum: Home Safely

by Eric J. Iannelli
June 10, 2004

Home Safely is the first release by Favorite Records, a record label formed this year, though the album itself was cut over a decade ago at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis. The trio features Chicago-born pianist Curtis Clark, bandleader for this session and the composer of all twelve tracks found here, as well as two prolific Dutchmen: drummer Han Bennink and bassist Ernst Glerum.

This outstanding disc has the mood and sound of a mainstream jazz release from the late ’50s ...