André Goudbeek (born 1946 in

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) is a Dutch

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and improvisation

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and

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from

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(Belgium); he plays alto

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and

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, among other instruments.

Biography

During his childhood, he received classical violin lessons. When he attended

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from 1965 to 1969, he pursued both violin as a member of the University Chamber Orchestra and saxophone as part of the University Jazz Sextet. Goudbeek, along with

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, Paul Van Gysegem, Willy Roggeman and Cel Overberghe, founded WIM (the Working Group of Improvising Musicians) in 1973. He also had his own group (Full Moon Trio) and in the early 1980s was a member of The Brotherhood of Breath, the group of the late South African

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Chris Mc Gregor. He first played at

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in 1981, with the

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Tchicai-Goudbeek-Jeanneau-Maté. From 1982 to 1994, he was a member of the

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. In 1995 Goudbeek was commissioned by Filmhuis Mechelen to compose a soundtrack to Robert Flaherty's silent film ''

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'', a project that also saw the release of a CD of the same name. Together with the Nanook Quartet, he then undertook an extensive tour of more than eighty cultural centers and cinemas in Belgium, the Netherlands and northern France to accompany the film live. Afterwards, he played live with such diverse jazz and improvisation musicians as Bart Maris, Peter Jacquemyn,

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, Xu Fengxia,

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and Ivo Vanderborght. With English vocalist

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, he released the improvisation CD ''As It Happened'' in 1998. Goudbeek was also regularly active as a musician and/or composer for various theater productions, including those of

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and

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. In 2005 he made a CD with bandoneon improvisations which he named after the Mechelen hamlet where he stayed: the ''Zennegat''.

Discography

* 1995: ''Nanook of the North'' * 1999: ''As It Happened'' * 2004: ''Separate Realities'' * 2005: ''Zennegat''

References

External links

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