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Jubilee Concert

Piet Noordijk

Jubilee Concert

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Format: CD
Label: Jazz 'N Pulz
UPC: 0608917539028
Catnr: BMCD 75390
Release date: 26 December 2012
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Label
Jazz 'N Pulz
UPC
0608917539028
Catalogue number
BMCD 75390
Release date
26 December 2012
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About the album

Guests: Pete’s Groove, Misha Mengelberg, Piet Noordijk Quartet, Noordijk Boptet

Of course, Piet Noordijk has made many albums, as you can see on www.pietnoordijk.nl. On this new album ‘Live from the Bimhuis’, Piet has gathered together in the most important jazz club in The Netherlands musicians from the three main groups he has played in during his career: 1) Pete’s Groove, 2) the Misha Mengelberg / Piet Noordijk Quartet, and 3) the
Piet Noordijk Boptet. Each group has a different line-up. The last one is the group in which Piet will be playing in the coming years.
You are invited to this document in three parts by one of Europe’s leading saxophonists. Welcoming the audience to this concert, he began: ‘’Thank you all for joining me at my 75th birthday party, but that’s only official today, because tomorrow, you may be sure, I’ll be feeling 45 again.”
Listen and join in this very special concert. I hope you will be fascinated by his dynamic way of playing and particularly his wonderful timing in endless new creating improvising ideas.

Piet Noordijk (70+), speelde met verschillende grootse muzikanten: Thad Jones, Ben Webster, Clark Terry, Ray Brown, Wynton Marsalis, Dexter Gordon, Benny Carter en vele andere... Hij viert nu zijn 60 jarige carrière als geweldige saxofonist, na 4 noten is de beste man al te herkennen. Hij speelde vele jaren met verschillende bands en kreeg vele prijzen, waaronder de ‘Bird Award’ en de Wessel Ilcken Award. In 1997 werd hij benoemd tot ‘RIDDER IN DE ORDE VAN DE NEDERLANDSE LEEUW’.
Op dit album ‘Live FromThe Bimhuis’ heeft Piet artiesten uit zijn belangrijkste bands verzameld. 1) Pete’s Groove, 2) The Misha Mengelberg/ Piet Noordijk Quartet, 3) The Piet Noordijk Boptet (waar Piet zich nu op concentreert).

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Piet Noordijk (saxophone)

Piet Noordijk studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory between 1950 and 1954. He graduated cum laude on clarinet. On alto saxophone he is self-taught. In the beginning of the Fifties, Noordijk (1932) got hooked on jazz music. His main influence was Charlie Parker. During the second world war by the German occupation it was forbidden to listen to jazz music in public. That didn’t prevent Noordijk’s elderly brothers from playing jazz at home. Music was what kept the Noordijk family going. After the war, Piet started studying the clarinet at the Rotterdam Conservatory. To his disappointment, at that time, there was no possibility to study jazz at the Conservatory. Piet had to wait until the Fifties, when he started playing in...
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Piet Noordijk studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory between 1950 and 1954. He graduated cum laude on clarinet. On alto saxophone he is self-taught. In the beginning of the Fifties, Noordijk (1932) got hooked on jazz music. His main influence was Charlie Parker. During the second world war by the German occupation it was forbidden to listen to jazz music in public. That didn’t prevent Noordijk’s elderly brothers from playing jazz at home. Music was what kept the Noordijk family going. After the war, Piet started studying the clarinet at the Rotterdam Conservatory. To his disappointment, at that time, there was no possibility to study jazz at the Conservatory. Piet had to wait until the Fifties, when he started playing in nightclubs, with a varied repertoire. He got more and more studio jobs, and ended up working as a studio musician. In the Sixties, Noordijk played with the legendaryMischa Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk Quartet. In 1965 he was awarded the Wessel Ilcken Award, an important jazz award in The Netherlands. In 1978 he became lead alto player with the Metropole Orchestra, and a much sought-after soloist. He played under conductors such as Enrico Morricone, Robert Farnon, Rogier van Otterloo, Jerry van Rooyen, Rob Pronk and Henk Meutgeert. He remained with the orchestra until 1992. He was also a frequent guest with other (television) orchestras like The Skymasters and The Ramblers. During the North Sea Jazz Festival 1987 Piet Noordijk was awarded with the prestigious Bird Award. August 2000 he was a guest at the ‘’Charlie Parker Jazz Festival’’ in New York. In 2008 Piet received the Edison Oeuvre Award. He has played with numerous American musicians such as Thad Jones, Ben Webster, Clark Terry, Ray Brown, Wynton Marsalis, Benny Carter, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Oliver Nelson, Slide Hampton, Hank Mobley and many, many more.

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Often bought together with..

Swinging With Strings (CD & DVD)
Piet Noordijk / Metropole Orchestra

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