caption website years_active birth_place label landscape background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
vloeimans performing in july , 2007 ericvloeimans.com 1990 -- present huizen , netherlands challenge records yes non_vocal_instrumentalist 24 march 1963 trumpet jazz eric vloiemans 2.jpg eric vloeimans
 eric vloeimans musician , songwriter , record producer
eric vloeimans

eric vloeimans -lrb- born 24 march 1963 in huizen -rrb- is a dutch jazz trumpeter .
vloeimans initially studied classical music at the rotterdam academy of music .
he got interested in jazz after meeting musicians from that department and switched - graduating with distinction in 1988 and continuing his studies in new york , studying with donald byrd on the trumpet gaining experience playing in the big bands of frank foster and mercer ellington .
he practices classical studies to keep his technique up to scratch ; enabling him to shape his improvisational ideas ; putting classical music at the service of jazz .
vloeimans has flavored his performance on the trumpet by using electronics special effects .
besides being active with major dutch jazz figures -lrb- including pianist michiel borstlap and cellist ernst reijseger -rrb- since 1989 , vloeimans has been involved in numerous international projects , most notably in his recording with us drummer joey baron , bassist marc johnson and pianist john taylor , resulting in an edison award for the album `` bitches and fairy tales '' in 1999 .
other collaborations include those with french/vietnamese guitarist nguyên lê , german clarinetist theo jörgensmann , swedish bassist/cellist lars danielsson and finnish drummer/percussionist markku ounaskari , us bassist jimmy haslip , as well as projects with norwegian composer erik lars gudim and nu jazz pioneer bugge wesseltoft .
in 2003 he received the most prestigious dutch jazz award , the vpro/boy edgar award .
two recent albums have won him the highest awards for music in the netherlands ; the edison award .
these include `` summersault '' , in 2006 , and `` gatecrashin '' ' in 2007 .
according to `` jazztimes '' magazine , `` vloeimans plays crisp and self-assured , embodying the articulate melodism of clifford brown plus many shades of miles , without being imitative '' .
