Tony Overwater
| Tony Overwater | |
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Overwater, Jazzclub Unterfahrt, 2011
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| Background information | |
| Born |
24 March 1965 Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, bandleader |
| Instruments | Bass |
| Labels | Jazz in Motion Records, Turtle |
| Associated acts | Sunny & David Murray, Yuri Honing, Ernst Reijseger, Oscar Pettiford, Rembrandt Frerichs, Kayhan Kalhor, Kinan Azmeh, Max Velthuijs, Anouk van Dijk, Sylvie Courvoisier, Misha Mengelberg, Pierre Favre |
| Website | tonyoverwater |
Tony Overwater (Rotterdam, March 24, 1965) is a Dutch jazz bassist (acoustic bass and violone) and composer of jazz and improvisational music. In 2002 he received the Boy Edgar Award, the most important jazz award in The Netherlands. Presently, Overwater is mainly active in a crossover of jazz, Arab and early music.
Overwater studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under John Clayton and had lessons from Dave Holland, Charlie Haden and others.
In 1989 he started his first band, Scapes, and received an award from the Stichting Jazz in Nederland for being the most promising musician. In that year he toured with Sunny and David Murray, and in the following years he recorded numerous albums, including A Sanctuary Within (1992). He also became a member of Yuri Honing’s trio, with which he toured for over 25 years. The trio recorded several albums, the most recent one in 2008. He also has been active in the trio DelFerro/Overwater/Paeffgen, which also produced some albums. Under his own name he worked with a variety of musicians in various ensembles. One such ensemble, Jungle Boldie, included Maarten Ornstein and Wim Kegel, with whom he recorded a number of albums. The album Op (2001), which also featured Ack van Rooyen and Ernst Reijseger, was a tribute to bassist Oscar Pettiford and resulted in an Edison Award. Ornstein and Overwater collaborated on a number of recordings and worked together repeatedly, such as in the band V, with Rima Khcheich, Kikker and many others.
In 2005 he worked together for the first time with the Calefax Reed Quintet in a project based on two suites by Duke Ellington. His trio, together with Calefax, toured in the Middle East, India and other countries. They recorded a CD which was nominated for an Edison Award.
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