Paulien van Schaik & Hein Van de Geyn
Paulien van Schaik & Hein Van de Geyn
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About Paulien van Schaik & Hein Van de Geyn
PAULIEN VAN SCHAIK (taken from her website by redlaad) At the theatre academy in Amsterdam they told me to do something with my singing first and then come back the next year. I never went back, music was all I ever needed. At the end of my studies at the conservatory I found that I also wanted to write songs. After a year in the United States (at the Berklee College of Music) where I focused on songwriting, I started building up a repertoire of my own songs. At the same time I got to know Hein van de Geyn. He’d heard a demo with my songs and asked me ‘when we were going to do something.’ After recording sessions of these songs however, we always ended up playing standards together. What a combination, just a voice and a bass. Such fun, we became all the more excited playing together. It was so thrilling, pure and honest. Three concerts, recorded live, resulted in our first CD ‘Tenderly’, which was awarded the ‘Edison Jazz Publieksprijs’ (a renowned Dutch music award). ‘In Summer’ is our second album, on which we invited Belgian trumpet player Bert Joris as a guest. We are now working on our latest project, which is an expansion of the duo with cellist Frans Grapperhaus and violinist Yvonne van de Pol. We’ve started doing concerts since February and from September 2006 we’ll be doing a theatre tour in Dutch theatres as a double bill programme for the Jazz Impuls Foundation. Songwriting has taken second place in these past years, until a while ago, all of a sudden I wrote a song with Dutch lyrics. That kind of scared me, because I had never written in Dutch before, let alone sung in Dutch. What was I supposed to do with this? It has however been smoldering ever since and it really caught fire now. Since September 2005 I have cleared my agenda, to have more time to really get going with this. In my own songs also I am looking for pureness and honesty, the naked truth. A whole new world opened up for me when I found that in my native language, I had so many more possibilities. In the meantime I am slowly but surely building up a repertoire and also making a nice programme with these songs. To be continued! HEIN VAN DE GEYN (taken from his website by redlaad) Was born in 1956 in Holland in a very musical family and started playing music from an early age on. His father was an amateur tenor saxophonist and great Jazz lover. Hein was classically trained by studying the violin for 15 years. On the side Hein played guitar and played Pop and Blues. In his late teens he picked up the electric bass and became interested in Jazz. Soon Hein was working with some of the Dixieland-bands in the south of Holland, but also formed his first Bebop group. With this group he received the award as "best soloist" at the contest of the 1977 Laren Jazz festival. It was after this that he decided to pick up the double bass, and really pursue his dream to become a Jazz musician. In the meantime though he finished his classical music studies at the conservatory of Tilburg. After gaining much experience in all kinds of styles, Hein went to the USA in 1980 to tour with Mark Lewis. He decided to move there and did so after graduating, as the first in the country, from the Jazz department of the Rotterdam conservatory, where he studied with Koos Serierse. After living in Seattle for a while and being much inspired by Gary Peacock, he moved to San Francisco in 1981. Here he was in a band with John Abercrombie and Larry Schneider, played with many great musicians, recorded some albums, and generally learned a lot about the reality of being a Jazz musician. In 1983 Hein returned to Holland and has since been establishing himself as one of the most sought after bass players in Europe. He has been the bass player with Philip Catherine between 1985 and 2000 and recorded 9 CD's with him. Hein has toured all over Europe and played in Africa, Israel, Rumania and Thailand with Philip. In 1987 he toured and recorded in Japan with Chet Baker. Hein was also the bassist on the last concert of Chet Baker in Rotterdam in 1988. This was also the year he started to play with, and arrange for Dee Dee Bridgewater, with whom he has been performing at most of the important festivals and stages in Europe (Montreux, Antibes, Vienne, Berlin, Marciac, Northsea, London ...) as well as in North America (Carnegie Hall, Village Vanguard, Montreal, Newport Festival ...) and Japan (Keystone Corner, Blue Note). After three albums and numerous tours and performances Hein and Dee Dee's paths separated in 1996 since Hein wanted to pursue his own career as a leader and producer.
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