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	VH1.com : Willem Breuker : Biography
		Breuker was eventually kicked out of the band rather publicly and had to relinquish the bass clarinet after a T.V. appearance by the band at the Loosdrecht jazz festival.
		Breuker was quickly more interested in playing originals as opposed to jazz standards, and so, he began composing in the early '60s.
		Breuker led a trio with Bennink and Altena (essentially, Mengelberg's quartet without Mengelberg) and performed in a trio with Brotzmann and Bennink in 1968.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/breuker_willem/bio.jhtml (1878 words)

	Jazz Concert Review - Willem Breuker Kollektief at Jazz Alley@ jazzreview.com
		Breuker played strictly soprano saxophone in Seattle, again proving himself to be among the most advanced players of this demanding horn on the contemporary creative improvised and composed music scene.
		Breuker’s volcanic soprano solo on the second tune was spiced with an assortment of extra-musical schtick from the other musicians, including scratching the top of his head as he played, taking a few vaudevillian twists and turns about the stage, and engaging in some goggle-eyed pantomime.
		The Willem Breuker Kollektief is a truly unique group, blending irreverent whimsy, orchestral precision that — in the words of an unnamed critic quoted in their press release — “would be the envy of most philharmonics” and bravura improvised solos mining virtually every era and style of jazz.
	www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=1139 (1301 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		Since that time Breuker, in concert with the leaders of some other large European aggregations has tended to downplay improvisations for charts that reflect his interest in modern classical music, opera, cabaret and pop music.
		Breuker is also a good leader, despite -- or perhaps because -- of the fun produced.
		Despite the shared first name between the composer and Breuker, the main reason to perform the concertino merely seems to be to prove that, along with its other attributes, the ensemble can come up with a note-perfect recreation of period music.
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/wbreuker_inhollnd.htm (1431 words)

	BREUKER, Willem : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Breuker formed the collective and record label Instant Composers Pool '67 with percussionist Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, making several albums on ICP.
		the New Acoustic Swing Duo, whose first album was on ICP); ICP got grants and subsidies and Breuker felt that he was doing all the work and gaining new audiences for creative music, so he formed the Willem Breuker Kollektief and his own record label, BV Haast, and got his own grants.
		Breuker singing 'Let's Fall In Love'; in '92 he wrote a piece for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and played it with him on TV.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/b/B240.HTM (250 words)

	MTV.com - Willem Breuker
		Dutch saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and bandleader Willem Breuker is probably the single most well known, prolific, and influential figure in 20th century Dutch music.
		With the help of the remaining board members, the musicians wrote a proposal for a government jazz subsidy, which was accepted first by the city of Amsterdam and a year later by the national Ministry of Culture.
		In 25 years of performing around the world and at countless festivals, WBK recorded over 30 albums, mostly for BVHaast, and released several CD compilations of their work including The Parrot and Celebrating 25 Years on the Road, a two disc set and book that is a photographic retrospective of the band's performances.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/breuker_willem/bio.jhtml (1876 words)

	Jazz CDs Pt. 1, DEC01 AUDIOPHILE AUDITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Much of the music Breuker and others create for the ensemble is fiendishly difficult and the performers are not afraid to stretch themselves anew at each concert and not to pander to the audience with riffs that will easily garner applause and appreciation.
		One effect Breuker seemed partial to at the last live performance I heard (Yoshi's in Oakland) was the creation of clearly animal-like yelps and whoops on wind and brass instruments.
		He is Breuker's keyboard virtuoso as well as the supplier of varied sound effects such as the typewriter and steamship whistle in Parade.
	www.audaud.com /audaud/DEC01/JAZZ/jazz1DEC01.html (1965 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Music \| Willem Breuker Kollektief \| 2000-03-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Although Breuker's willful iconoclasm may be dismissed as shtick by outsiders, his vision presses far beyond superficial gimmick, and has attracted an international cult following.
		Though hunger is a fairly dismal subject to address in song, Breuker manages to bring a full range of emotions, including joyful optimism and a bit of nutty fun, to his five-movement suite of the same name.
		Willem Breuker Kollektief performs Tuesday, March 28, at 8 and 10 p.m.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2000-03-22/music/record3.html (473 words)

	Willem Breuker Kollektief Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		For more than 30 years, the Willem Breuker Kollektief has been one of Europe's finest ensembles playing contemporary and improvised music.
		Led by saxophonist/clarinettist/ composer Willem Breuker, the Kollektief cuts across traditional musical lines, combining jazz and 'serious' (i.e.
		And whether playing Breuker, Weill, Gershwin, Morricone, Prokofiev or Ellington, the 11-member Kollektief maintains an orchestral precision that, in the words of one critic, "would be the envy of most philharmonics".
	www.telecharge.com /tickets_Willem_Breuker_Kollektief_NY_City_Joes_Pub_all.aspx (607 words)

	Profil Musisi Jazz > WILLEM BREUKER KOLLEKTIEF - JAZZ PROFILE
		Pada tahun 1973 Willem Breuker keluar dari ICP dan pertengahan tahun 1970 an dia membentuk grup Willem Breuker Kollektief yang merupakan salah satu pioneer atau pelopor gaya eclectic jazz ensemble yang masih aktif sampai sekarang.
		Willem Breuker Kollektief (WBK) sampai sekarang merupakan salah satu ensemble terbaik dari Eropa yang memainkan improvised music dan musik kontemporer dan bermain baik di klub-klub jazz maupun di philharmonic hall.
		Sehingga mungkin tidak berlebihan jika Willem Breuker kollektif saat ini dianggap sebagai salah satu ensemble terbaik dan mempunyai suatu keunikan juga konsep yang kuat terhadap musiknya, mempunyai dedikasi juga sumbangan yang cukup besar bagi perkembangan musik jazz dan avant garde, pertunjukkan-pertunjukannya yang unik selalu membawa hasil yang mengagumkan dan sukses.
	www.wartajazz.com /profile/profile-willembreukerkollektief.html (575 words)

	Ink 19 :: Target Or Flag :: AMSTEL JAZZ
		Leo Cuypers came up with the name for Willem Breuker's label BVHAAST (Hurry Inc.) when they were composing theater music together in the early 70's.
		Breuker's compositions and arrangements are playful and at times melodramatic.
		On this disc Breuker is fascinated by the sounds of the early decades of the 20th Century.
	columns.ink19.com /tof/amstelJazz.html (1225 words)

	Jorrit Dijkstra
		Breuker, whose work on tenor and soprano saxophones often resembles the manic rasp of a duck in heat, began his jazz career amidst such free-jazz firebrands as Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker.
		In a typical gag, for instance, Breuker plays a parody of avant-garde soprano sax while manically running his fingers all over his horn—as if the entire sax, reed and all, were responsible for its changes in pitch.
		Breuker, pianist Misha Mengelberg, and drummer Han Bennink are the three heavy-hitters of the Amsterdam jazz scene.
	www.jorritdijkstra.com /recensiesjdsolo.html (4308 words)

	MTV.com - Misha Mengelberg
		He heard his earliest major jazz influences in the late '40s: Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who was not highly regarded by many of the musicians in Mengelberg's community at the time, but whom Mengelberg considered to be the most harmonically interesting jazz musician he had yet heard.
		So, both Mengelberg and Breuker led their own ICP gigs, with Bennink (who didn't choose sides) performing in both, although more often with Mengelberg.
		Breuker and Mengelberg were also key instigators in the overhaul in Dutch government funding of jazz, resulting in regular grants somewhat controlled by the musicians in an organization called BIM and a space for the musicians to use that was dubbed the BIMHuis.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/mengelberg_misha/bio.jhtml (1512 words)

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		ICP was founded as a label and group concept in the late '60s when reedist Willem Breuker and drummer Han Bennink self-released a duo recording on a label they named ICP.
		Breuker's group included such musicians as bassist Maarten Altena, trombonist Willem van Manen, saxophonist Peter Bennink (Han's younger brother), pianist Leo Cuypers and keyboardist Michel Waisvisz.
		By 1973, the inevitable split came and musicians went with one or the other, resulting in Breuker's still-thriving theatrical and fun-loving Willem Breuker Kollektief, while Mengelberg continued with the name ICP, which was, again, a continuously changing line-up for several years, during which only Misha, Han Bennink and American tubist Larry Fishkind were mainstays.
	www.mp3.com /icp-orchestra/artists/7897/biography.html (844 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		Twenty-eight years after its organization, it appears as if there are rote expectations that must be met with every CD and live performance by the Willem Breuker Kollektief (WBK).
		In truth, the most accomplished are trumpeter Boy Raaymakers, bassist Arjen Gorter and Breuker himself, all grizzled veterans of the so-called Golden Era of Free Jazz.
		A recent Breuker composition "Hulpverkrabber" sounds better, even though the composer or band members seem not to have made a final decision on its lineage.
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/wbreuker_misery.htm (803 words)

	Review Archives
		Consisting of a never-before-released performance of a new piece by the Norwegian composer Alfred Janson as well as a series of reissued numbers from 1982 to 1995, it’s part of Willem Breuker’s ongoing determination to carve a unique niche for himself in the world of modern music.
		Compositions designed to illustrate Breuker’s distinctive worldview, the material is a mixture of familiar and out-of-the-ordinary.
		Breuker’s atonal, double-tongued sax solo is first framed in horn riffs, then polyharmonic string passages that soon descend to syrupy romanticism.
	www.jazzword.com /nova/showreview.pl?item=104238 (1696 words)

	Willem Breuker Kollektief / BVHAAST Records
		During the current season the Kollektief will present a number of live performances, with film projection, of the score Willem Breuker composed for the 1926 silent movie "Faust" by Friedrich Murnau, one of the pioneering masterpieces of cinematography.
		This composition, commissioned by the Cite de la Musique in Paris, has the duration of the original version of the movie, one hour and 46 minutes.
		Willem Breuker Kollektief and New Music Choir, conducted by Rene Niewint, with vocal soloists Jasperina de Jong, Marcel Beekman, Frits Lambrechts, Pieter Hendriks and Denise Jannah.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wbk (186 words)

	SEMJA Update - November 1999
		I was able to attend most of the concerts at the three venues and came away hopeful about the viability of future festivals of jazz on the edge.
		The uniqueness of Breuker's approach to the avant garde is to include heavy doses of musical theater in his panorama of musical styles.
		Breuker's commentary was at times somewhat opaque, but his bandmates took on the role as translators for the benefit of the music students.
	www.semja.org /nov99/edgefest.html (559 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Dutch ensemble has ear for adventure
		The essence of the Dutch treat that is the Willem Breuker Kollektief became evident in the third tune of the boisterous first set at Johnny D's Wednesday night, during the 10-piece avant-garde ensemble's performance of the leader's "Hulpverkrabber 911."
		The long, inventive Breuker solo that followed included such buffoonery as his half-swallowing and twirling his mouthpiece 180 degrees while continuing to blow.
		Two more lengthy Breuker compositions closed out the set -- a few movements from his suite "Faust" and his frequent set-ender "Thirst" -- and left no doubt that these guys (and one woman) are serious talents.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/09/28/dutch_ensemble_has_ear_for_adventure?mode=PF (322 words)

	Willem Breuker - original music for the theater pieces by Bert Brecht: Drums In the Night; The Rise of Arturo Ui - The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Willem Breuker - original music for the theater pieces by Bert Brecht: Drums In the Night; The Rise of Arturo Ui - The Wm.
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		This reissue from the extensive LP discography of the long-running Kollektief in Amsterdam brings to CD form two sets of short instrumental suites created originally for two different theater presentations in l975.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=108 (277 words)

	spectrum template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Willem Breuker Kollektief, an eleven-member jazz orchestra based in the Netherlands, will make a rare U.S. concert appearance on Saturday, October 2, at 8 pm in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard.
		Tickets for the concert are $15 for the general public and $7 for all students, available at the Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center (496-2222) or at the door.
		Led by saxophonist, clarinetist, composer Willem Breuker, this educational session promises to be a free-wheeling exploration of contemporary and improvised music.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~ofa/spectrum/1999/sep99/lfp.html (617 words)

	Jazz: Leo Cuypers
		Through drummer Pierre Courbois he performed at the festival of contemporary jazz in Baden-Baden, where he met reedman Willem Breuker.
		Through Breuker he came to play in the band of Theo Loevendie.
		After leaving Breuker in 1980 he formed his own bands and continued to perform as a soloist.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/fvdveer/m-cuype.htm (531 words)

	Leo Cuypers - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Dutch pianist and composer Leo Cuypers is one of the numerous creative geniuses who rose to prominence in the avant-garde hothouse of late '60s and early '70s Europe, while remaining a relative unknown in the States and the rest of the world.
		A lifelong supporter of Dutch free jazz legend Willem Breuker as a member of Breuker's eponymous Kollektief, Cuypers has also emerged into the limelight to head his own groups on several occasions.
		Seven years later, he again recruited Breuker, along with renowned Dutch drummer Han Bennink and Breuker Kollektief bassist Arjen Garter, to record the delightful, ironic Heavy Days Are Here Again.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/leocuypers.html (291 words)

	Jazz Bulletin Board - Who is not in your collection?--part 2
		February 8th, 2005 12:26 AM Willem Breuker (never heard of him - should I be ashamed ?)
		Breuker is the only one I really don't know.
		willem breuker (unless you count a tape of a radio special on the i.c.p.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /printthread.php?t=8078 (687 words)

	CMT.com : Leo Cuypers : Biography
		During the 1970s, he played in the bands of such fellow Dutchmen as pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Theo Loevendie, but his best-known association was with saxophonist/composer Willem Breuker.
		Cuypers was a key member in Breuker's Kollektief for much of the 1970s, and during this time, the two co-founded the BVHaast label ("BVHaast" translates to "Hurry Inc.," a reference to the pair's habit of working under tight deadlines on their film and theater music projects).
		Cuypers took on a lower profile during the 1980s and 1990s, as he had left the Breuker Kollektief as a result of a spat with the leader and was recording infrequently on his own.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/cuypers_leo/bio.jhtml (259 words)

	Willem Breuker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Willem Breuker's music is an experience - part circus, part orchestra, part theater.
		Willem Breuker: I always wanted to play the piano but after the second world war Holland was a very poor country like all Western Europe.
		AAJ: You don't want to be thought of as “tenor saxophonist” Willem Breuker.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14612 (1754 words)

	enja Records - BANDA CITTÁ RUVO DI PUGLIA - LA BANDA
		The ensemble from Ruvo di Puglia, a small town in Apulia, Southern Italy, where important composers of Banda music hail from, is best known for its yearly performances at processions in the Holy Week.
		They not only present traditional opera transcriptions for Banda (on CD 1), but are also open to meet new challenges from original jazz musicians and composers Michel Godard, Jean-Louis Matinier and Willem Breuker who have been familiar with the Banda tradition for many years (on CD 2).
		Based on Banda-inspired melodies by Fellini's soundtrack composer Nino Rota, Bruno Tommaso's suite "Sacra Romana Rota" serves as a heavy finale for a performance that was considered one of the most important events in European music in 1996.
	www.enjarecords.com /cd.php?nr=ENJ-9326 (292 words)

	Willem Breuker Kollektief and Denise Jannah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This chapter in the 30-year saga of the composer/saxophonist Willem Breuker’s medium-big band is a mixed bag of affable parody, respectful tribute, and straight-ahead cabaret jazz entertainment with an edge.
		include the three-part title suite, which opens with a saxophone showcase featuring Breuker’s grumpy soprano and Alex Coke’s bull-in-a-china-shop tenor.
		The next section is a Kurt Weill–like ballad full of curdled world-weariness; the composition ends with a mixture of portentousness and absurdity as abrupt melodic fragments collide over a martial beat.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /archive/music/01/10/12/otr/WILLEM_BREUKER_KOLLEKTIEF.html (229 words)

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		As far as the Kollektief goes (distinguishing them from Breuker's work on his own, mostly in soundtracks), generally, IMHO, their greatest stuff is from around 1975-83.
		As you may suspect, I'm a bit of a Breuker fanatic, so take my recs with a few grains of salt, but I think he's created some of the finest work in the last 25 years.
		Heibel was recommended as a starting point by Cadence, and was recorded live in 1990, two pieces with lots of improv, and including a mini-opera with a vocalist.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v02.n411 (2559 words)

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