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Willem Breuker
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
The saxophonist and composer Willem Breuker, from Amsterdam, played on Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun in 1968. With Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink he founded the Instant Composers Pool in 1967, but he soon went his own way. In 1974 he started the Willem Breuker Kollektief, a group of about ten musicians that mixed jazz with marches, tango, Kurt Weill, brass band music and classical music. The performances were theatrical and full of humour. Breuker was also active in the fight for subsidies for improvised music and helped found the Bimhuis. He wrote a great deal of music for theatre and film. He died in 2010.
Listening
Tango: Jantje Once Saw Plums Hanging · Willem Breuker & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, 1977
Les · Willem Breuker Kollektief, 1997- Lullaby · Willem Breuker & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, 1977
Discography
Studio albums
- 1967New Acoustic Swing Duo
- 1974Baal Brecht Breuker
- 1978Doodzonde (soundtrack)
- 1978Getrommel in de nacht = tambours dans la nuit (Musique pour la pièce de Bertolt Brecht) (soundtrack)
- 1979Twice a Woman - Twee vrouwen (soundtrack)
- 1983De illusionist (soundtrack)
- 1984New Acoustic Swing Duo
- 1990Herman Heijermans - The Samuel Falkland Show / Bertolt Brecht - The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (soundtrack)
Other work
- 1977De Knop · with het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
- 1981In Holland · Willem Breuker Kollektief
- 1997The Compositions of Eric Dolphy · Willem Breuker Kollektief
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Jazz MapNL Map
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- European free improvisation Genre
In Amsterdam, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink and Willem Breuker started the Instant Composers Pool in 1967.
- Jazz in the Netherlands Genre
In the 1960s an avant-garde of its own emerged around Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink and Willem Breuker, with the Instant Composers Pool (1967) and the Amsterdam Bimhuis (1974).