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Blown Away

Niels Tausk Quintet

Blown Away

Price: € 12.95
Format: CD
Label: Jazz 'N Pulz
UPC: 0608917538823
Catnr: BMCD 75388
Release date: 01 November 2007
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Label
Jazz 'N Pulz
UPC
0608917538823
Catalogue number
BMCD 75388
Release date
01 November 2007
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About the album

This is the first album of the Niels Tausk Quintet. Niels organizes a pure jazz quintet, using the cream of Dutch musicians, all with their roots in jazz. Niels has selected nine compositions that have blown him away in the past. We hear pieces by Shorter, Coltrane, Cedar Walton, Blue Mitchell, Harris and Jerome Kern respectfully played in the style of this new quintet. This is the kind of straight-ahead jazz that will never disappear. The players’ shared values,attitudes and perceptions are a vivid blend of musical intelligence. They all play with true conviction. They crackle with fresh ideas, sparked by the spirited performance of their colleagues.
On this album multi-instrumentalist Tausk is an appealing trumpet player with a lyrical way of phrasing, mixing a spontaneous sense of swing in the very foundation of his ideas. The challenging music on this album gives everybody a chance to solo. They all take that chance to the full extent and really blow, which consistently gives the band a wonderful drive and intensity.
Tausk has also contributed an excellent original composition. When a writer writes he doesn’t think about paper, pen or computer, but about his subjects, stories and things that have happened to him. And so did Tausk - intensively. This piece ‘Blown Away’ is of such top-flight originality that the band may, in turn, blow you away too. (From liner notes by Bob Hagen, producer).
Dit is het eerste album van het Niels Tausk Quintet. Niels organiseert hier een puur jazz kwintet met de crème de la crème van Nederlandse jazz muzikanten. Niels heeft gekozen voor 9 stukken die grote indruk op hem maakte. Het is een levendige en intelligente mix van straight ahead jazz die nooit zal verdwijnen. Tausk is een trompettist met een lyrische manier van fraseren. Hij mixt een spontaan gevoel voor swing in het fundament van zijn ideeën. De uitdagende muziek op dit album geeft iedereen de ruimte om te soleren; dit geeft de band een heerlijke drive en intensiteit.

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Niels Quintet Tausk

Niels Tausk plays trumpet since the age of 11, went to the conservatory at 17, where he graduated in 1993, already having been finalist for the 1987 Pall Mall Swing Award. In New York he studied with Joe Magnarelli, John Eckert and John McNeil and became a big adept of Tom Harrell. In ’95 he won the Breda Jazz contest with a swing band and recorded his first CD. As a member of the Cees Slinger Octet he became influenced by Ferdinand Povel. He toured with Mathilde Santing as trumpet soloist and made arrangements for the Edison-awarded cd “New Amsterdam”. Niels teaches at the The Hague Conservatory.
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Niels Tausk plays trumpet since the age of 11, went to the conservatory at 17, where he graduated in 1993, already having been finalist for the 1987 Pall Mall Swing Award. In New York he studied with Joe Magnarelli, John Eckert and John McNeil and became a big adept of Tom Harrell. In ’95 he won the Breda Jazz contest with a swing band and recorded his first CD. As a member of the Cees Slinger Octet he became influenced by Ferdinand Povel.
He toured with Mathilde Santing as trumpet soloist and made arrangements for the Edison-awarded cd “New Amsterdam”. Niels teaches at the The Hague Conservatory.

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Ferdinand Povel (saxophone)

Ferdinand Povel (Haarlem, 1947) is one of the foremost Dutch tenor- and alto saxophone players. After winning the 1964 Loosdrecht Jazz Concours, he toured Europe in 1969 with Dusko Goykovich and in 1971 with the Kenny Clarke – Fancy Boland big band, and in the USA with Maynard Ferguson in 1973. Since 1978 he is teaching sax at three Dutch conservatories and simultaneously leading tenor and alto saxophonist with the Skymasters to accompany many famous soloists.
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Ferdinand Povel (Haarlem, 1947) is one of the foremost Dutch tenor- and alto saxophone players. After winning the 1964 Loosdrecht Jazz Concours, he toured Europe in 1969 with Dusko Goykovich and in 1971 with the Kenny Clarke – Fancy Boland big band, and in the USA with Maynard Ferguson in 1973. Since 1978 he is teaching sax at three Dutch conservatories and simultaneously leading tenor and alto saxophonist with the Skymasters to accompany many famous soloists.

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Peter Beets (piano)

Peter Beets has shared the stage with jazz greats like Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter and John Clayton. He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 his recording 'New York Trio' was released, which brought him international acclaim. Peter Beets was born on the 12th of June, 1971 in the Hague. From birth he was surrounded by music: classical from his mother who is a music pedagogue, and jazz from his father who is a gynaecologist with a great love of Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey. This musical family, which includes two older brothers, Marius and Alexander, moved in 1972 to Groenlo, where Peter received his first piano lessons at...
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Peter Beets has shared the stage with jazz greats like Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter and John Clayton. He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 his recording "New York Trio" was released, which brought him international acclaim. Peter Beets was born on the 12th of June, 1971 in the Hague.
From birth he was surrounded by music: classical from his mother who is a music pedagogue, and jazz from his father who is a gynaecologist with a great love of Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey. This musical family, which includes two older brothers, Marius and Alexander, moved in 1972 to Groenlo, where Peter received his first piano lessons at the age of six. Although originally both parents did not associate the word "musician" with the word "career", music is definitely in the family's blood. Both Marius (1966) and Alexander (1968) become professionals on string bass and tenor saxophone, respectively. After college, Peter studied from 1989 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He combined his music studies with law school, but the jazz virus matured and he decided to concentrate exclusively on music.
From 1985 the brothers performed together as “The Beets Brothers”. In 1988 Peter won the prestigious Pall Mall Swing Award and a year later the Princess Christina Award. After this point, Peter's career began to rise rapidly. In 1990 the first recording of The Beets Brothers appeared, followed by two more, School is Closed Now (1993) and Brotherwise (1995). In 1996, Peter recorded a remarkable trio album called “First Date”, with drummer Jeff Hamilton, the driving force behind Monty Alexander and Oscar Peterson. Peter became a much wanted pianist both inside and outside the Netherlands, and accompanied, among others, Deborah Brown, Dee Daniels and Holland's "First Lady of Jazz", Rita Reys. In 1998 he finished his conservatory studies, and won the Parisian Prix Martial Solal. He also became the regular pianist of “The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw”. With trombone and jazz legend Curtis Fuller, Peter made a live recording in 1999 and won in that same year yet another prize, the Concours de Solistes de Jazz in Monaco.
More recordings follow: in 2000 “Powerhouse”, in 2001 “All Or Nothing At All” In 2001 he recorded the CD “New York Trio”, with the rhythm tandem Rodney Whitaker and Willie Jones III, the first CD of Peter Beets recorded on the Criss Cross label. After the sequel, “New York Trio Page Two” recorded with the world-famous Larry Grenadier on bas he made a third CD for the label Criss Cross. This time with Reginald Veal on bass and drummer Herlin Riley, known from the group around Wynton Marsalis. In October 2007 his most recent CD appears on the renowned label. This time he chooses to perform without drums, but with the strength of piano, guitar and bass. The CD, called “New Groove”, is recorded in New York featuring Joe Cohn (guitar) and Reuben Rogers (bass). A few songs are recorded with a dutch cast, Martijn van Iterson (guitar) and Ruud Jacobs (bass).
Peter has had very successful tours with his trio in several countries in Europe such as Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Poland as well as in Japan and the US. He played at the famous Birdland Club in New York as a “special guest” for one week.

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Jos Machtel (double bass)

Niels Tausk (trumpet)

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