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Hardbop drummer Eric Ineke (1)

thu 30 jan 2025
Theme: Jazz
Saturday 1st February 2025, 20:00 – Jazz Behind the Dikes.
Jazz Behind the Dikes dedicates 2 broadcasts to the career of hard bop drummer Eric Ineke. Ineke has been a professional drummer for over 55 years. He worked with Pim and Ruud Jacobs and Rita Reys, and has been the regular drummer of the Rein de Graaff/Dick Vennik Quartet since the 1970s. From 1989 to 1994 he was part of the Ben van den Dungen/Jarmo Hoogendijk quintet, with which he traveled half the world. In addition, he accompanied, according to his own estimation, about 150 soloists (“… and many more…”), including many Americans.
After 30 years in the business, Ineke started leading his own group in 2006: The Eric Ineke JazzXpress. That formation is still very much alive and internationally successful to this day. The CD “Swing Street – The Eric Ineke JazzXpress feat. Tineke Postma” was recently released. This album has as its theme the music of alto saxophonist/composer/bandleader Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley (1928-1975). Eric Ineke has been making his own monthly programme for the Concertzender for many years: House of Hard Bop. And he is also Artist in Residence at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
This hour focuses on recordings from the first 35 years of Ineke’s career.
HARPEFOSS
Pianist/composer Frans Elsen was inspired by the surroundings during a holiday in Norway in 1970. This led to a number of pieces, each with a title derived from Norwegian geography. A septet, led by Elsen, performed the cycle in 1972/73. In addition to Elsen on Fender Rhodes, the group consisted of Eddie Engels (trumpet/flugelhorn), Piet Noordijk (alto sax), Wim Overgaauw (guitar), Rob Langereis (bass guitar), Wim van der Beek (percussion) and drummer Eric Ineke.
Fifty years later, a studio session of this musical adventure was found. The Dutch Jazz Archive (NJA) produced a CD of the material, Septet Frans Elsen: NORWAY, featuring Piet Noordijk.
The style is of Dutch jazz historical importance. It can be labelled as fusion. Fusion had by then become part of the international zeitgeist in jazz, but here we hear well-known bop and hard bop musicians making a convincing stylistic twist. This applies to Frans Elsen, guitarist Wim Overgaauw and Piet Noordijk, among others. Noordijk had already proven that he was capable of anything. When Eric Dolphy soloed in the Netherlands – in the mid-1960s – with Boy’s Big Band (which included Noordijk), we heard his influence in the Misha Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk quartet.
From NORWAY you will hear the piece Harpefoss.
CANDY On November 9th, 1979, Eric Ineke sets up his drum set in Vara Studio 2. Together with pianist Frans Elsen and bassist Victor Kaihatu, he accompanies trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker. Radio session. The recordings will not be released on LP and CD before 2023: Blue Room – The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions. Released by Jazz Detective, aka Zev Feldman & Frank Jochemsen (Netherlands Jazz Archive). Baker is in great shape. He sings at a relaxed pace, improvises without text, and solos on trumpet. Elsen also solos. (No trace of fusion anymore.) Maximum cohesion between the four musicians.
REIN DE GRAAFF – DICK VENNIK QUARTET The album Cloud People was recorded in 1983. Koos Serierse bass – Eric Ineke drums. The playing is very intense, especially by the Vennik/De Graaff axis. Saxophonist Vennik is overflowing with melodic ideas and doesn’t know when to stop. The piece You’ve Changed is a sax-piano duet, and thins out even further to Vennik solo.
The hour ends with a version of The Touch of Your Lips, played in Antwerp’s Café Hopper by Ferdinand Povel and the Rob Madna trio.
Extensive biography of Eric Ineke, and the complete programme, in the Guide.
Jazz Behind the Dikes – Hajé Nordbeck

(Special thanks to Jan Brouwer of the Dutch Jazz Archive)