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This guy is the most brilliant drummer with no recognition

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Confusion will be my epitaph

Are you aware the below is going on right now 24/7?

You can stream it on the site.

WKCR 89.9 NYCity

Radio festival: All day Tuesday, April 17th through Saturday, April 21 and 70th Birthday Concert: Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 PM (doors at 6:30 PM) at The Italian Academy of Columbia University featuring Han Bennink, Richard Teitelbaum, Ray Anderson, Uri Caine, Mark Dresser, Mary Oliver, Thomas Heberer, and Michael Moore.

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Never heard of him, I will take a note, thanks...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

What music does he play? Haven't heard of him. Is he in a band?

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Must be a protest band, since Michael Moore is in it.

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

I saw Han Bennink at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival a few years back. A tall, lanky Dutchman. He performed with Peter Brötzmann, as I recall. Bennink literally played the stage. That's what he does - drums on everything. Sometimes it can get dangerous, because he's so intense, and the drum sticks fly around the room. His father played percussion with a symphony orchestra, and little Han was something of a child prodigy on drums. Later he turned onto free jazz and stayed there. I don't think Zappa played with him. Zappa wasn't very sympathetic to the wildest strains of free improvisation. When Ben Watson played him a track with Derek Bailey and a drummer, he asked Ben to turn it off - not because he didn't like it, but he was too tired, it didn't give him much, and he figured he could have played that music on his own - guitar and drums simultaneously.

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We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

I know of him from various recordings with Chadbourne.

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Bennink is the man. Saw him a couple of years ago perform w/ Charles Gayle as a duo. I need to check out some recordings of him. Been watching the Brotzmann DVD docu "Soldier Of The Road". I suppose I should start w/ "Machine Gun". Everybody do yourself a favor, go to youtube and check out his "cheese drum" solo.

Just had this in my CD player again a few days ago, and must state just one more time for the werld: whooopeee - Annette and Paul on Moog and Rhodes, Bennink on drums - can it get any better than that?

http://allmusic.com/album/improvisie-r717672/review