Deborah Brown

For the Love of Ivie

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Label: Daybreak
UPC: 0608917542424
Catnr: DBCHR 75424
Release date: 30 May 2008
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Daybreak
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DBCHR 75424
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30 May 2008
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Deborah Brown: vocals (& piano on 7 & 12)| Rik Mol: trumpet & fluegelhorn | Sjoerd Dijkhuizen: tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet & baritone sax | Rob van Bavel: piano| Marius Beets: bass | Eric Ineke: drums
Guests: Bart van Lier: trombone | Benjamin Herman: alto sax

Ivie Anderson was the best vocalist Duke Ellington ever had. When at the age of twenty-five she joined his orchestra in 1931, she had already proved herself as a singer who could appeal to black and white audiences alike. Her versatility was probably the aspect Ellington appreciated most: an unhibited flair for the dramatic, the ability to extract the maximum from sentimental songs and the facility to move effortlessly from easy swing into growling, bluesy scatting. “Ivie Anderson’s unique voice is immediately recognizable,” Deborah explains. “The timbre of her voice makes one feel warm. She has the quality of someone like a mother, singing you to sleep with a lullaby, and her happy earthy tone on her up tempo tunes makes you feel as though she has life all figured out.”
Throughout the twelve years she stayed with the Ellington orchestra she suffered from chronic asthma. In the summer of 1942 it became clear that the ailment made it impossible for her to continue singing and traveling with the band full-time. She returned to her home state California, where she made a succes of a restaurant in Los Angeles called the Chicken Shack. She died in 1949 at the age of forty-four.

Almost sixty years later the idea of a tribute to Ivie Anderson was put forward by producer Fred Dubiez to Eric Ineke, who was keen on doing an album with Deborah Brown and his JazzXpress. Soon it became clear that everybody liked this project very much.
The repertoire of the group is based on the hard bop idiom, closely related to Deborah Brown’s undeniable bebop roots. For this tribute the singer and the leader together selected eleven songs from the more than fifty recordings Ivie Anderson made with Ellington. Since these are modern interpretations of the original material and not recreations, it seemed fitting to pay homage also to Duke himself by adding an instrumental version of Black Beauty, one of his earliest and most enduring compositions. On a number of tracks two well-known Dutch jazz musicians were invited to join in as guests: trombonist Bart van Lier and alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman.

Warum hat noch niemand ein Tribut an Ivie Anderson gerichtet? War sie doch die erste S�ngerin, die bei Duke Ellingtons Orchester fest angestellt war - und das gleich f�r viele Jahre (1931-1942). Die Erinnerung an sie lebt auf mit dieser CD, die der renommierte 'Eric Ineke Jazzxpress' mit der US-Amerikanerin Deborah Brown aufgenommen hat. Sie versteht es m�helos, Standards, die schon Anderson meisterhaft gesungen hat, mit ihrer kr�ftigen und variablen Stimme zur Verbeugung vor dem Vorbild werden zu lassen.

Artist(s)

Benjamin Herman

Benjamin Herman (9-5-1968) started playing the saxophone when he was twelve. Now, more than 20 years later, he has made a fantastic career and is considered to be Holland’s pride and joy on the saxophone. Not only did he start the successfull New Cool Collective and the New Cool Collective Big Band, he also performed all over the world with many great artists like a.o. Candy Dulfer, Michiel Borstlap, Saskia Laroo, Fra Fra Big Band, Rein de Graaf, Jesse van Ruller, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Idris Muhammad, Larry Goldings, Misha Mengelberg en The MetropoolOrchestra
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Benjamin Herman (9-5-1968) started playing the saxophone when he was twelve. Now, more than 20 years later, he has made a fantastic career and is considered to be Holland’s pride and joy on the saxophone. Not only did he start the successfull New Cool Collective and the New Cool Collective Big Band, he also performed all over the world with many great artists like a.o. Candy Dulfer, Michiel Borstlap, Saskia Laroo, Fra Fra Big Band, Rein de Graaf, Jesse van Ruller, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Idris Muhammad, Larry Goldings, Misha Mengelberg en The MetropoolOrchestra
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Rik Mol

Music’s been Rik Mol’s thing the whole way since starting playing trumpet when he was 8. If Zeeland, the Netherlands native Rik Mol had his way, he would be a Restaurant-chef today. But luckily fate brought him to the trumpet. “I remember that I was really curious to know what was in a blue suitcase that was standing in my dads office.” “Finally he let me look inside, and a silver shining instrument was in it; the trumpet.” “I tried it and immediately I was able to play a note. It surprised us both I remember” From that day playing the trumpet became far more interesting than his dream of having his own restaurant. Already after one year of practicing...
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Music’s been Rik Mol’s thing the whole way since starting playing trumpet when he was 8. If Zeeland, the Netherlands native Rik Mol had his way, he would be a Restaurant-chef today. But luckily fate brought him to the trumpet. “I remember that I was really curious to know what was in a blue suitcase that was standing in my dads office.” “Finally he let me look inside, and a silver shining instrument was in it; the trumpet.” “I tried it and immediately I was able to play a note. It surprised us both I remember” From that day playing the trumpet became far more interesting than his dream of having his own restaurant. Already after one year of practicing he was admitted to the special preparatory-department for young talented children at the Conservatory of The Hague. Rik was classically trained there by studying with teachers such as Huug Steketee and took private lessons with Theo Mertens and Maurice André.
In his early teens being still in high school classical music upbringing almost took a back seat as he became more enamored with jazz/pop and was inspired by private-lessons with Wynton Marsalis. But he developed quickly, playing both jazz, pop and classical music locally. He spent most of his high-school days playing up to five nights a week at jazz clubs and occasional concerts, giving him an early start to his professional career.
Nowadays Rik developed himself into one of the most promising European trumpeters of this time: Only 22 years old, Rik Mol has the world at his feet.
At his young age he has been able to win a lot of first prizes that can be won at his field, among others:European Trumpet Contest / Yamaha Soloist Award / Prinses Christina Concours / Finalist Deloitte Jazz AwardBesides playing with all main figures in the scene like, Candy Dulfer, New Cool Collective, Trijntje Oosterhuis, DJ Maestro, Metropole Orchestra, Bløf, DJ Bryan S, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Cubop City BigBand etc. And travelling backwards and forwards to Berlin, New York and London for sessions with Gerard Presencer and Till Brönner, or touring with “Europe’s Finest in latin jazz” Nueva Manteca, he has been able to surround himself in his group with Holland’s leading jazz and pop musicians.

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Rob van Bavel

Graduated in 1987 at the Rotterdam Conservatory with the highest possible mark (A with distinction). He won several awards, a.o. the second prize at the first 'Thelonious Monk Jazzpiano Competition' (Washington D.C.), soloist awards in Germany/Belgium, the Wessel Ilcken Award (Holland) and the Dutch Grammy (Edison) for the cd 'Rob van Bavel trio'. He made many cd's as a sideman and as leader: Rob van Bavel Octet and Rob van Bavel Trio. Some cd's released by RVB Productions, a.o. 'Duo Rob van Bavel/Marc van Rooij LIVE'. Nowadays working as a teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts) and the Amsterdam Conservatory (Conservatorium van Amsterdam). Of course also performing (inter-)nationally with several groups, such as The Ghost, The King And I. Van Bavel played...
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Graduated in 1987 at the Rotterdam Conservatory with the highest possible mark (A with distinction). He won several awards, a.o. the second prize at the first "Thelonious Monk Jazzpiano Competition" (Washington D.C.), soloist awards in Germany/Belgium, the Wessel Ilcken Award (Holland) and the Dutch Grammy (Edison) for the cd "Rob van Bavel trio".
He made many cd's as a sideman and as leader: Rob van Bavel Octet and Rob van Bavel Trio. Some cd's released by RVB Productions, a.o. "Duo Rob van Bavel/Marc van Rooij LIVE".
Nowadays working as a teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts) and the Amsterdam Conservatory (Conservatorium van Amsterdam). Of course also performing (inter-)nationally with several groups, such as The Ghost, The King And I. Van Bavel played with Woody Shaw, Randy Brecker, Slide Hampton, Johnny Griffin, Bob Mintzer, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Willis a.o.

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Marius Beets

Playing music became a pure necessity for Marius at the age of ten. At that time his musical career started with playing the bass in various local pop- and rock bands. At home Marius came in touch with jazz music. His father had a big collection of the best jazz records and his younger brother Peter developed himself as a true jazz freak. Marius’ continued to explore these jazz influences and started studying double bass at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. From that moment on his career set off with great force. Marius became part of young jazz bands such as the Houdini’s, the Hoogendijk/Van den Dungen quintet and the Beets Brothers. With these bands Marius performed on the most important jazz venues in the...
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Playing music became a pure necessity for Marius at the age of ten. At that time his musical career started with playing the bass in various local pop- and rock bands.

At home Marius came in touch with jazz music. His father had a big collection of the best jazz records and his younger brother Peter developed himself as a true jazz freak. Marius’ continued to explore these jazz influences and started studying double bass at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

From that moment on his career set off with great force. Marius became part of young jazz bands such as the Houdini’s, the Hoogendijk/Van den Dungen quintet and the Beets Brothers. With these bands Marius performed on the most important jazz venues in the Netherlands and toured in the United States of America, Australia, Thailand and Russia.

Beets struck the attention of, and got much loved by, established Dutch jazz artists such as Rita Reys, Rein de Graaff en Piet Noordijk. The strong beat and forward motion in his playing fits seamlessly with the sound of the esteemed older jazz generation.

In 1999 Marius gave a new boost to the Rein de Graaff trio and set for several European tours with jazz legends as Johhny Griffin, James Moody, Bud Shank, Gary Bartz and Ronnie Cuber.

Marius has an impressive discography with over a hundred recordings. Featured artists are a.o.: Herb Geller, Jeff Hamilton, Deborah Brown, Rita Reys, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Peter Beets, Houston Person, Ronnie Cuber and Dave Liebman.

Beets is a well know guest at large Dutch orchestras such as the Metropole Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble, Skymasters and the Jazzorchestra of the Concertgebouw.


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Eric Ineke

Eric Ineke ( b. April 1(!), 1947), mostly self-taught, began playing gigs in late 1964 with people like Ferdinand Povel, Rob Madna, Piet Noordijk, Wim Overgaauw and Frans Elsen. From 1971 until 1989 he was a member of the now legendary Rein de Graaff/Dick Vennik Quartet. He toured through Europe accompanying a lot of visiting American and European musicians, such as: Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Don Byas, George Coleman, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles McPherson, Dave Pike, Doug Raney, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Curtis Fuller, Bud Shank, David Liebman and played on numerous Jazz festivals in Europe and the USA. He was the drummer behind  Jimmy Raney on almost all of his European tours. Since 1984 Eric Ineke is...
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Eric Ineke ( b. April 1(!), 1947), mostly self-taught, began playing gigs in late 1964 with people like Ferdinand Povel, Rob Madna, Piet Noordijk, Wim Overgaauw and Frans Elsen. From 1971 until 1989 he was a member of the now legendary Rein de Graaff/Dick Vennik Quartet. He toured through Europe accompanying a lot of visiting American and European musicians, such as: Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Don Byas, George Coleman, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles McPherson, Dave Pike, Doug Raney, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Curtis Fuller, Bud Shank, David Liebman and played on numerous Jazz festivals in Europe and the USA. He was the drummer behind Jimmy Raney on almost all of his European tours.
Since 1984 Eric Ineke is member of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra that went to the USA in 1995 to play a concert for the Duke Ellington-conference in Pittsburgh and also recorded the Music of Billy Strayhorn (CHR70089/92). In 1990 he started as a teacher at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1999 he formed the Wolfert Brederode/Eric Ineke Quintet and recorded the CD's "Trinity" and "Pictures of You" (A-records). With David Liebmann and Marius Beets he recorded “Lieb Plays Wilder” (DBCHR75214).
In 2006, Eric Ineke’s JazzXpress came about. “While driving to a gig with David Liebman in Antwerp, Belgium, Dave said it was about time I started my own hardbop group. ‘You should do this, and ask some good youngsters.’ That night, Marius Beets was on bass and tenor saxophonist Sjoerd Dijkhuizen came by. Marius said: ‘This is what we’ve been waiting for!’ Sjoerd immediately asked if he could be part of it. Of course he could!” For the piano chair Eric asked Rob van Bavel, with whom he had developed ‘a great rhythmic rapport’ after they both had been part of the Piet Noordijk Quartet and the high-energy Jarmo Hoogendijk/Ben van den Dungen Quintet. Young trumpet sensation Rik Mol – just 22 while I’m writing this - was recommended by his former teacher Jarmo Hoogendijk, who had to retire from stage because of a lip injury.
The band’s name was made up by Eric’s fellow musicians. “They decided that my name should be part of it, and they invented the word Xpress, with the capital X. It looks good on jazz club and festival posters.”
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The Eric Ineke JazzXpress

The Eric Ineke JazzXpress  consists of the very talented Rik Mol on trumpet and flugelhorn, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen on tenorsaxophone, Rob van Bavel on piano, Marius Beets on doublebass and ofcourse Holland’s most prominent Jazzdrummer Eric Ineke. The repertoire is rooted in the Hard-bop tradition and the most compositions are written by the bandmembers themselves. With three generations of jazzmuscians in this explosive band, Hard-bop will get a contemporary meaning and you can trust The Eric Ineke JazzXpress for that. Right from the start in 2006 the band got great critical acclaim and appeared in Germany, Belgium and many festivals in Holland including the Northsea Jazz festival. In 2008  the band was a big success on the European Jazzfestival in Athens ( Greece)....
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The Eric Ineke JazzXpress consists of the very talented Rik Mol on trumpet and flugelhorn, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen on tenorsaxophone, Rob van Bavel on piano, Marius Beets on doublebass and ofcourse Holland’s most prominent Jazzdrummer Eric Ineke.
The repertoire is rooted in the Hard-bop tradition and the most compositions are written by the bandmembers themselves. With three generations of jazzmuscians in this explosive band, Hard-bop will get a contemporary meaning and you can trust The Eric Ineke JazzXpress for that.
Right from the start in 2006 the band got great critical acclaim and appeared in Germany, Belgium and many festivals in Holland including the Northsea Jazz festival. In 2008 the band was a big success on the European Jazzfestival in Athens ( Greece). During a succesful theater tour for JazzImpuls in 2009, the band recorded the live CD ‘’JazzXL, Blues, Ballads and other Bright moments’’ which was released in 2011.
In the summer of 2011 the band got an invitation from the American Jazz Museum to perform in Kansas City together with the great singer Deborah Brown. Together they recorded the album ‘’All Too Soon’’ which was running for a Grammy. In 2012 The Eric Ineke JazzXpress did a series of concerts with David Liebman, The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and Deborah Brown in Holland and Germany to celebrate Eric Ineke’s 65th Birthday Anniversary.
In 2014 they performed with Deborah Brown at the Amersfoort Jazz Festival, which was recorded for Djazz TV, and the Bruxelles Jazz Marathon.
CD recordings by The Eric Ineke JazzXpress: Flames ‘n’ Fire ‘’If you like real Jazz, straight ahead without any gimmicks, this CD is for you’’ - David Liebman For the love of Ivie, a tribute to Ivie Anderson feat. Deborah Brown ‘’Brown proves every inch Reeves’, and Anderson’s equal’’ - Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes Xpressions in Time ‘’A tour de force on a high level’’ – Angelique van Os, Jazzmagazine ***** Jazz XL - Blues, Ballads and Other Bright Moments "Most impressive throughout this set is that the soloists (all of whom are excellent) avoid sounding like any of their historical predecessors, and the band has a strong team spirit." Scott Yanow
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Deborah Brown & Erik Ineke Jazz Express - recording 'For the Love of Ivie'

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