Willem Breuker

saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet · 1944–2010 · Amsterdam

Dutch saxophonist and clarinetist (Amsterdam, 1944 - 2010), co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool in 1967 with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. He left the ICP in 1974 to found the Willem Breuker Kollektief, originally a ten-musician band, and the BV Haast label.

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Styles

• Dutch jazz
• Free improvisation and European free
• Modern big bands

Landmark tracks

• Forty Five Steps (1990)
• Duke Edward/Misère (1991)

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