Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Marius Beets [pronounced “Bates”] is one of three brothers, all of whom are prominent players on the Dutch Jazz scene.
Brother Peter is a remarkably gifted pianist who reflects the influence of Oscar Peterson in his playing both with his own trio and as a member of the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.
Alexander Beets is a big-toned, straight-ahead tenor player who performs with a number of small groups as well as with The Beets Brothers Powerhouse Big Band.
It was in the latter context that I first heard Marius on a The Netherlands based Maxanter CD entitled Marius Beets and the Power Big Bad Vol. 1 75232.
The recording was released in 2005 and in the intervening decade, Marius has continued to grow and develop as a bassist, composer, and as a recording engineer of considerable skill.
Along with his work in both big band and small group settings with brothers Peter and Alexander, Mauris has been a long-standing member of pianist Rein de Graaff trio along with drummer Eric Ineke and he also joins Eric as a member of his JazzXpress quintet. He has performed with The Houdini’s and a host of American Jazz musicians including Johnny Griffin,James Moody, Bud Shank, Gary Bartz , Ronnie Cuber, Herb Geller, Jeff Hamilton,, Houston Person, and Dave Liebman.
You can locate more information about Marius by visiting him at his website: www.mariusbeets.nl
The following insert notes from Marius Beets and the Power Big Bad Vol. 1 provide a few more details about Marius’s career circa 2005 and also contain his annotations about each of the tunes on the recording.
“With this album Marius Beets introduces himself in a broad variety of ways. Not only can he be heard playing double bass and electric bass, but he also presents himself as a composer, band leader, arranger and recording engineer. Marius started his professional career as a musician during his college-days at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1994 he graduated with honors from this venerable institution.
Arranging he taught himself, his main inspiration coming from the work of Oliver Nelson and Gil Evans. His many orchestrations include arrangements for strings for Trijntje Oosterhuis and Bobby McFerrin. Big Band arrangements by his hand were played by the New Cool Collective Big Band. As a recording-engineer he was responsible for albums by Houston Person and Dave Liebman. Apart from all these activities, he teaches double bass as a principal subject at the Rotterdam Conservatory.
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