Joris Teepe

Bassist Joris Teepe (1962) is the first jazz musician from The Netherlands to be able to make it in New York.

Arriving in New York in 1992 with just his bass and a suitcase, he took lessons with Ron Carter, quickly met many musicians and started to work a lot. A year later he recorded his first CD, with a band co-led by Don Braden and featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Carl Allen and Tom Harrell. From that point everything really took off for Joris and he became a bassist in great demand. He has been working with the "who-is-who in Jazz", such as Benny Golson, Sonny Fortune, Rashied Ali, Billy Hart and Randy Brecker. Coming from a bebop background it was being a member of the Rashied Ali Quintet for 9 years what really changed his vision on music. "When I joined the group we first had Frank Lowe on saxophone (later replaced by Lawrence Clark) and I had no idea what they where doing".

Currently Joris has recorded 20 albums as a leader. He also established himself as a composer, record producer (many different labels and artists), educator (director of Jazz Studies at the Hanze University, Bass Professor at Queens College, NY) and bandleader.

Awards

In 2004 Joris Teepe has been nominated for the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the category “Artist deserving wider recognition”.

Cory Weeds, Mugrew Miller, Artie Shaw & More

by Joe Dimino
April 29, 2019

From the prowess of, This week we open Neon Jazz with a tribute to Rashied Ali, courtesy of Dutch bassist Joris Teepe. We then move on to sample some tasty new tracks by the Pete Coco Trio, Angela Verbrugge and the incredible Cory Weeds. In between, the show is full of legends from Artie Shaw to Toots Thielemans. As we get towards the end of the show, we hear from Montana-based jazz musician Erica von Kleist and the ...

Album Review

Joris Teepe: In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali

Read "In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 11, 2019

Taking Elvin Jones' vaunted place in John Coltrane's eternal journey beyond the expected, Rashied Ali's mutable, intuitively malleable sense of time, at once both visceral and disembodied, propelled the saxophonist further into his explorations of music as a free, transcendent, spiritual entity. Although he continued to innovate with Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp and influence musicians down the generations, Ali stepped outside the spotlight after Coltrane's death in 1967. Active in the '70s, Ali founded his own record label and ...

Album Review

Joris Teepe: In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali

Read "In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 6, 2018

In politics, as well as music, the revolutionaries rarely govern. With the exceptions of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Marion Brown, and Rashied Ali exemplify this theory. Thankfully, those fighting in the trenches alongside the insurgents, like Joris Teepe, are determined to keep their memory and spirit alive. The Dutch-born New York bassist performed and recorded with Rashied Ali for nine years until the drummer's death in 2009. This project preserves that relationship and is a ...

Album Review

Joris Teepe: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 13, 2018

Don Braden appartiene a quella schiera di sassofonisti emersi tra gli anni ottanta e novanta sull'onda di un neo bop caratterizzato da forti legami coi maestri degli anni cinquanta e sessanta (Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter) e relazioni col modello Blue Note. In un quarto di secolo ha espresso al meglio le sue doti (suono corposo, fraseggio fluente di matrice post-coltraniana) con i migliori esponenti di quest'estetica in numerosi album: Tom Harrell, Ralph Peterson, ...

Album Review

Joris Teepe & Don Braden: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 15, 2017

In life we tend to make hard distinctions between the value of conversation and the worth of action, crystalizing such a dividing line with statements like “talk is cheap" and “actions speak louder than words." Jazz, however, has a way of relating the two. When musicians get together to play, the talk is the action. Every opportunity to play with others is a chance to open the lines of communication, and albums like this remind us that the deeper the ...

Extended Analysis

The New York Comes to Groningen Art Ensemble: A Beautiful Friendship

by Bob Kenselaar
October 16, 2012

The New York Comes to Groningen Art EnsembleA Beautiful Friendship: New York Comes to Groningen, Volume 2Prince Claus Conservatory2012 In addition to his active schedule performing in a wide range of jazz contexts on both sides of the Atlantic, bassist Joris Teepe has been director of Jazz Studies for more than a decade at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Dutch city of Groningen. In fact, it was Teepe's brainstorm that spawned ...

Live Review

Joris Teepe Trio: New York, NY, July 19, 2012

by Bob Kenselaar
August 7, 2012

Joris Teepe Trio, with special guest Dave StrykerSmall's Jazz ClubNew York, NYJuly 19, 2012We wouldn't expect bassist/composer Joris Teepe to bring along a big band, symphony orchestra, and a chorus of a hundred voices with him to a gig at Small's Jazz Club. While there's no doubt that Small's is a prominent venue on the New York City jazz landscape, it's certainly not the largest. But this didn't deter Teepe from showcasing a selection from ...

Event

Bobby Watson, Joris Teepe and Peter Retzlaff join Matt Savage for Concert at Dizzy's Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, February 21st

Source: Sarah McMullen
February 16, 2011

New York, NY—Jazz composer and pianist Matt Savage will celebrate the release of his new album, Welcome Home, with a concert at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on Monday, February 21st. He will be joined by three of the guest musicians featured on the CD— sax great Bobby Watson, bassist Joris Teepe, and drummer Peter Retzlaff. Welcome Home peaked at #18 on JazzWeek's radio airplay chart and is currently #5 on the CMJ Jazz ...
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Radio

The Jazz Session #89: Joris Teepe

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

Dutch bassist Joris Teepe has lived in New York for the past 20 years, making a name for himself with everyone from Benny Golson to the late Rashied Ali. Recently, Teepe was commissioned to write music for both an orchestra and a big band in Europe. Those two experiences were so positive that he decided to start a big band in New York, and the result is the CD We Take No Prisoners (Challenge Records/Twinz Records, 2009). In this interview, ...
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Performance / Tour

Joris Teepe Quintet at Fat Cat (NYC) on March 20

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2009

Performance / Tour

Joris Teepe Big Band (New York All Star)

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2008

The gigs are: Wednesday August 27th at 9 pm Big Band at Cecil's (West Orange)

Thurday, August 28th at 8 pm Big Band at Sweet Rhythm SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST ON THURSDAY

Friday, August 29th at 8 pm Big Band at Puffin Foundation in Teaneck NJ Here is a brief story about the “history" of the Joris Teepe Big Band: Bassist Joris Teepe is a resident of ...
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Performance / Tour

The Joris Teepe Quartet @ B.B. King's

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Bassist Joris Teepe is a resident of NYC, but was born and raised in The Netherlands. Last year he was invited to bring his quartet from New York to the Netherlands to perform with the “North Netherlands Sympony Orchestra" of which he was commisioned to compose music. Due to the succes of these concerts, Joris was invited in April to be the guest soloist for the Radio Big Band in Bucharest Romania to perform a program of his music. Upon ...
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Music Industry

POSTCARDS PRESENTS JORIS TEEPE'S NEW CD,

Source: All About Jazz

* July 18 release features saxophonists Don Braden and Chris Potter, pianist David Hazeltine, and drummer Bruce Cox *

Sometimes a promising combination of musicians, if given an inspiring selection of songs, will create a magical experience for the audience. On two evenings in late November 1998, Dutch-born bassist Joris Teepe assembled his quintet at Smalls, the downtown jazz club in New York City, and their performance sparkled with a brilliance that even long-time aficionados found astonishing. Fortunately, the alchemy ...
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"..Joris Teepe has become musical partners with some of the best musicians in New York. This is due to his status as a bassist who possesses a warm, even tone, and a sympathic, swinging beat (..) but also to his abilities as a writer, arranger, and band leader." - Peter Washington, New York

Primary Instrument

Bass, acoustic

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Here is an overview of Joris Teepe's activities as a jazz educator: Since 2001 Teepe has been the Director of Jazz Studies at the Prince Claus Conservatory in Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also inventer and founder of the program New York comes to Groningen, a unique system of jazz education with a rotating visiting faculty from New York teaching at this International University in Europe. Joris Teepe is on the faculty of Queens College in NY as Bass Professor, since 2008 From 2000 until 2012 Teepe has been the bass instructor at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The Wachovia “Jazz for Teens” program.