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Dutch Jazz Quartet
(The Netherlands)
co-sponsored by Daimler-Chrysler
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Han Mantel
- bass, Miguel F R Martinez Schrijver – alto saxophone, Edvard Verhoeff, guitar, Wim Kiegel, drums
Hans Mantel was born in 1958 in Rotterdam and educated
at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the University of Utrecht. He has been a professor in Madrid and Amsterdam,
guest lecturer in the US and Europe, presenter and producer for Dutch radio stations Classic FM, Jazz Radio and
Radio Netherlands International and principal jazz journalist for De Telegraaf.
Since 1977, as
one of the most sought after Dutch bassists, has worked around Europe and toured extensively to the United States,
The Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Over the last twenty years has accompanied countless jazz artists
in clubs, on festivals, recording dates, on radio and television and in other 'live' situations. Hans has worked
around Europe and toured the world recording and performing with such artists as George Benson, Art Blakey, Wynton
Marsalis, John Scofield, Barry Harris, Teddy Edwards, Bobby Durham, Red Holloway, Herb Ellis, George Masso, Jon
Eardly, Philip Harper, Dan Barret, Jackie Terrason, Ravi Coltrane, Joshua Redman, Frank Morgan, Jack McDuff, Roy
Hargrove, Gregory Hutchinson, T.S. Monk, Steve Turre, Slide Hampton, Wessel Anderson, Clark Terry, Stanley Turrentine,
Ray Bryant, Jim McNeely, Frank Foster, James Moody, Bennie Green, Marcus Printup, Kenny Drew Jr., Clifford Jarvis,
James Williams, and Bennie Wallace.
Recent Tours:
In 1997 tour of
Eastern U.S. with a.o. the Frank Morgan Quartet.
At the 1997 North Sea Jazz Festival performed in concerts with a.o. Wynton Marsalis, Steve Turre and Clark Terry,
in 1998 with Stanley Turrentine, John Scofield, Jim McNeely, James Moody, Frank Foster and Slide Hampton, in 1999
with Bennie Wallace and James Williams and in 2000 with Ron McCroby, Bunky Green, Jim McNeely and many others.
In October of
'99 an album was recorded by the Hans Mantel Group featuring Jim McNeely. The group performed very succesfully
at the North Sea Jazz Festival in July 2000.
"Hans Mantel
posesses a big sound and a big desire to make the music feel good. He walks very direct intelligent lines with
the physical intensity required to make the bull fiddle swing." -Wynton Marsalis.
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