Biography
In 2006 an unusual duo was formed: drummer Joost Lijbaart and pianist Wolfert Brederode. They worked together previously with Swiss singer Susanne Abbuehl and in several ballet projects. In 2005 P.F. Thomése, author of the international bestseller Shadow Child, invited them to add music to his ‘audio book’. And again their ability to combine their instruments and produce a sound as if it were ‘one’ instrument, turned out so well, they decided to start a duo. Thomése wrote the significant liner notes for their debut CD One.
Joost Lijbaart, winner of the 1993 Europe Jazz Contest, is a highly in demand drummer/composer in the field of jazz, pop, improvised music and modern classical music and dance. He is part of a/o the Yuri Honing Trio, the guitar trio Agog and Yuri Honing Wired Paradise. In 2002 he started his own Group of Friends, that same year he won the Dutch Jazz Competition ‘Best Soloist’.
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Pianist/composer Wolfert Brederode represents a new, personal and poetic sound in jazz. With his Wolfert Brederode Trio and Quintet, Nimbus, and Susanne Abbuehl, he has been performing throughout Europe and Canada. Recently he founded a new quartet with which he will make his debut on ECM in 2007.
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