Jochem van Dijk
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Is Who?
NYC-based composer and improvising bass guitarist Snellbinder=Jochem van Dijk; Born Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, in 1965; got his start in music by playing a homemade tea-chest bass with the highschool Dixieland band. When the paper route brought the 1st bass guitar, his band mates and him studied the first 16 bars of Take Five diligently for 2 months; the Bb and Db from the 3-note 5/4 figure was fingered on the the A-string, and for the time being the d-string tuned Eb, and off to the races it was. Numerous bands in his home country followed, with both covers and self penned songs. Playing bass with a circus band for 5 years in the summers led to a master’s thesis on Circus Music, sealing his graduation as an Ethnomusicologist in 1994. Worked as a music teacher for sevaral years, and wrote music for a number of theatre plays in for an Amsterdam-based theatre company. Has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and USA. Jochem van Dijk currently lives in New York. Stateside highlights include his arrangement of Strange Fruit performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 2005, and the performance in 2009 of his pocket cantata Stuyvesant Reluctant at the Dia:Beacon.…
Discography
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Instruments
Martin Keith basses
Homages
Johnny Meijer
Ramses Shaffy
Olivier Messiaen
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Daniil Shafran
