Cees Slinger

piano · 1929–2007 · Alkmaar

Dutch pianist born in Alkmaar and died in The Hague. He founded the Diamond Five, a hard bop combo based at the Scheherazade club in Amsterdam in the 1950s, taught at the Rotterdam conservatory from 1979 to 1989, received the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1996, led an octet and accompanied many visiting American soloists, including Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Styles

• Hard bop
• Dutch jazz

Landmark tracks

• Sweet and Lovely (Cees Slinger Octet) (1995)

Sources

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