VARA STUDIOS - HILVERSUM - BOOKER ERVIN QUARTET & VAN BERGEIJK QUARTET (1966/67)
Here are two shorter recordings from the 1960s made in the Vara Studios.
Recently I became (finally) aware that the Vara Studios in Hilversum (Netherlands) were the location for many important recordings. I do not know anything about it - but maybe someone can shed some light on this topic. Also Gilius van Bergeijk is almost unknown to me. He was born in Den Haag on November 7, 1946. Today he is working as a composer but in the sixties and seventies he has worked as a Jazz musician. Peter Brötzmann and the glorious ICP were then stations in his development.
Booker Ervin needs no introduction...the same goes for Han Bennink.......
BOOKER ERVIN QUARTET "VARA STUDIO, HILVERSUM, 1966"
Booker Ervin, tenor saxophone
Pim Jacobs, piano
Ruud Jacobs, bass
Han Bennink, drums
1. BLUESETTE (not by Thielemans!) 9.03
2. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 8.13
3. DAY TO MOURN 9.55
Live at VARA Studio 7, Hilversum, Netherland on February 18, 1966.
GILIUS VAN BERGEYK QUARTET "HILVERSUM, 1967"
Gilius van Bergeyk, oboe
Viktor Kaihatu, bass(arco)
Arjen Gorter, bass(pizz)
Han Bennink, drums
1. VOOR DINGES, EEN LIED 03:57
2. KONFUSI 06:59
3. PARAFINERADE 04:25
4. BALLADE VOOR DE ARBEIDER IN DE SCHEERWOL INDUSTRIE 07:16
All compositions by Gilius van Bergeyk.
Recorded at VARA Studio, Hilversum, Netherland in March, 1967.
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25 comments:
This looks great, thanks for sharing.
Good stuff, thanks.
Thanks for this. The VARA studios were part of the old AKN building in Hilversum (a small town outside Amsterdam which is still the heart of the Dutch broadcasting industry). It's a really lovely 1940s modernist building. I had the pleasure of looking through when I worked with its current owners the Veronica media group. Dutch radio and television gave good support to much Dutch jazz.
Thanks Onx. Booker Ervin was an honest man. An honest bluesman. He left us much too soon.
Booker Ervin was a great player whose recorded legacy is much too small. Any and every addition to it is valuable. Thank you.
Hartelijk dank!
In the old days Dutch public radio & tv were indeed good supporters of dutch jazz. Nowadays things are quite the opposite: no jazz, and certainly no dutch jazz on tv and on radio jazz it is expeled to wee hours.
the problem with (Dutch) jazz on Dutch radio & TV is that the programmers mistake R&B, soul and funk for 'jazz'...
thanks for this i never heard; experimental jazz & great liberty in this times.
sandor
A propos of nothing, I've noticed in the last two or three days that, as a Rapidshare free user, I'm getting much higher download speeds from them. Around 500 kbps. Much faster than the 30 kbps I was getting since last Xmas.
As always...many thanks for cool stuff.
Gilius van Bergeijk is a good friend of mine.
He is still going strong, but works as a composer only since the early 80s.
See his catalog: http://catalogus.mcn.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:Bergeijk%2C%20Gilius%20van
Thank you for the link, Luc Houtcamp.
Hope to see and hear you in Munich at the end of November.
Albert Ayler's Hilversum Session was recorded there if I'm not mistaken.
Though perhaps not a highly regarded album of Ayler's, I dig it.
If you're interested in Dutch Jazz...I have a blog totally devoted to Dutch Jazz-albums....all the way, from Willem Breuker, ICP-Orchestra and The Contraband to the mainstream/hardop from Rita Reys, Cees Slinger, Rein de Graaf...
dutchjazz.blogspot.com
btw: many thanks for Van Bergeyk...
Hi peer57 - thanks for your invitation but under dutchjazz.blogspot.com there's no blog...?
hi...no, the exact address is:
dutchjazzz.blogspot.com
The blog is private, but if you want an invitation, leave your e-mailaddress at peer57@live.nl, so i can send one!
Thanks onxidlib!
I also send the Van Bergeijk link to him and his son. I'm sure he doesn't mind you posting it and is probably curious about the recording too. However he is not too much into the Internet!
i like your blog and have downloaded quite a lot of good stuff from you!
Looking forward to see you at Munich! Come and say hello!
Luc
And on my own label X-OR, i have released 2 cd's with the electrnic works of Gilius van Bergeijk.
http://xorluc.home.xs4all.nl/urls/artists_van_bergeijk.html
Still available!
Booker Ervin,Booker Ervin Booker Ervin! Wow!Whooo!Whee! Thank you!
Gilius van Bergeyk
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Booker Ervin
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BIG BIG THX!...
Reading the comments of 2012 and the one posted by Marcel who seems disappointed by the fact that Dutch radio doesn't care no more about jazz, I can say that it is going the same for radio France.
if someone have more about Gilius van Bergeijk it would be very interesting to post, obviously he have made only one jazz album on his own, a duet with Luc
thanks
Thank you so much for the re-post!
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