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At this moment I am working on my opcomming cd with my Quartet with Natalio Sued, Thorsten Grau and Machieq Domaradzki. The cd will be recorded in february 2008 and will be called "Zub".

Musical Samples off these preparations will be uploaded soon on my Myspace page

Jeen who!?

I am a guitarplayer, playing different styles of music such as Jazz, Brazilian and Pop music. I performed in Ethiopia, Egypt, New York and England as well as most of Europe.  As a member of various Big Bands, I played with artist such as Toots Thielemans, James Morrison, Karin Bloemen, Eric Vloeimans, Diego Urcola, Jim Manley, Peter King, Denise Jannah, Benny Bailey, Lils Mackintosh, Ferdinand Povel, Barry Harris, Ken Ard, Ronald Douglas, Bas van Lier, Toon Roos, Deborah Carter and Lilian Day Jackson.
I also performed with Pia Douwes, Thijs van Leer, Donna Lynton, Ack van Rooyen, Fay Claassen, Nicko Christiansen, Lee Towers, Oscar Harris, Fred Starks and others.

I Studied jazz at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. I had lessons with John Ruocco, Eef Albers, Frans Elsen, John Aebercrombie, Doug Raney and Philip Catherine and played in workshops with Tal Farlow, Joe LaBarbara and David Liebman.
After finishing at the Conservatory I went to New York where I studied with David Gilmore (Steve Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Josh Stone) and later to Rio de Janeiro where I studied Brazilian guitar with Ricardo Silveira (Ellis Regina, Sergio Mendes, Rita Lee) among others.

Besides playing with my quartet I am a member of the "Holland Big Band" and I play in the groups “Full Coulours” and “The Sentimentalist” and do many occasional gigs such as with my funk band "Yallah Funk" and "Lalouzz".