PIERRE COURBOIS
Genres: Classic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Latin Jazz • Netherlands

Pierre Courbois is born on April 23, 1940, in Nijmegen, the son of a watchmaker and a jeweller. Before World War II they both play in a cinema orchestra. He receives his professional training at the Hogeschool der Kunsten (Art College) in Arnhem, where he graduates as a goldsmith. This practical, technical profession explains Courbois’ later craftsman like adaptations and innovations for his drum kit, such as the retunable floor toms, the double bass drum and gong pedals. Together with his brother Jacques he launches a craze in the early Seventies by building a complete drum set of transparent Perspex, an instrument he continues to play to this day. During his high school years, Pierre does some (evening) courses on electronics on different schools for polytechnics. Here the seed is own for his later inventions on drum synthesizers. Courbois takes his first steps in the field of music in 1953, when he read more...