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Peter Beets
12+ albums
jazzpianopiano jazzbluesbebop
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Peter Beets is a Dutch pianist with great technical skills and a lot of swing. He played with Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, "Toots" Thielemans, Jeff Hamilton, Teddy Edwards, Roy Hargrove, Johnny Griffin, John Clayton and others. His star is still rising and it is rising fast. We will hear a lot more from this genius. Peter Beets (Netherlands, 12 June 1971) comes from a music loving family. Classical music comes to him via his mother a music teacher. Among others, the music of Art Blakey and Oscar Peterson are musical contributions from his father, a doctor. Both his brothers play instruments: Alexander (1968) plays tenor sax and Marius (1966) plays contrabass, they both become professional musicians. In 1977 Peter starts having piano lessons at the age of six. A conservatory studie follows when he is 18 (1998) at the Royal Conservatory for Music and Dance in The Hague. Though Peter combines this with legal studies, he eventually chooses for music. He finishes conservatory in 1998, the year he joins the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw as regular pianist. In 1985 the three brothers form the band “The Beets Brothers”, with whom he records a first nameless album in 1990, followed by “School is Closed Now” (1993) and “Brotherwise” (1995). In between Peter wins the Pall Mall Swing Award and the Prinses Christina Concours. === Beets readily validates the praise (see the review of New York Trio (1)), unleashing his marvelous chops on the faster numbers and playing w
