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robbie carree

DRUMS (blues,jazz,rock)

About Me

.. Robert Andreas Carree was born in 1973 in Athens,Greece.As a baby he was given to the baby centre H Mitera and later moved to Corfu from where he was adopted by Dutch parents and grew up in and around Leiden,Holland.His father, a drummer himself, played a lot of Jazz/ bigband music around the house from the likes of Count Basie,Buddy Rich,Stan Kenton and many more,which,until this day remains one of his most favorite styles of music.At age 7 he started his first piano lessons and got a LP of the Beatles and that started off his interest in Rock and Pop music...At fifteen he switched to drums and started playing in bands and joined the music scene at the famous dutch Jazzbar The Duke in Leiden where people played and play like:Martijn van Iterson,Karel Boehlee,Simon Rigter,Mr Boogie Woogie and many more.At seventeen Robbie started his studys at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where he studied drums with Clarance Becton and Erik Ineke.Ater his graduation in 1997 he moved back to his birthplace and lived for 6 years in Athens and Rhodes (Greece)When he came back in 2003 he soon started playing gigs in and around Leiden and now is back and playing full blast around europe and the states!

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Member Since: 6/3/2007
Band Members: I play with a lot of different people in different styles of music with Mr Boogie Woogie and the firesweep bluesband being my main band: Eric-Jan Overbeek(Mr Boogie Woogie)Piano,Raymond Nijenhuis,guitar,Jasper Mortier,bassI also play with Men in Blues:Chris Koenen,guitar,Aad van Pijlen,bass,Frans Heemskerk,piano,Willem v/d Wal,slide guitar and with jazz-quartet Scoops:Ruud de Vries,tenorsax,Nick Vos,guitar,Sergei Shapko,bassand regulary work with people like:great singer Zosja,Frans Heemskerk,Robin Koerts,Tim Eymaal,Robbert Fossen,Little Boogie Boy,Wouter Kiers among others and I also often work with foreign players on tours in Holland and Europe....
Influences: Miles Davis,The Beatles,Buddy Rich,"Philly"Joe Jones,Elvin Jones,Carlton Barret,Steve Smith,Bob Marley,Duke Ellington,Dennis Chambers,Tony Williams,Jack DeJohnette,John Bonham,Steward Copeland,John Engels,Count Basie,Dr John,Steve Gadd,Jaco Pastorius,Jim Keltner,Pat Metheny,JJ Cale,John Scofield,Cannonball Adderly,Jeff Buckley,Peter Erskine,Elvis,Joni Mitchell,Joe Zawinul,Wayne Shorter,James Brown,Prince,Stevie Wonder,Idris Muhammad,John Coltrane,Aad van Pijlen,Han Bennink
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tzatziki Jazz

From march the fourth I will be doing live Jazz sessions in café Hunky Dory in Leiden (next to plato) every tuesday night,there will be great guest players and free homade tzatziki and bread!Hope to s...
Posted by robbie carree on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:22:00 PST

The end of progressive holland

This country is changing so fast it scares me....We are ruled by a extreme right christian party who wants to forbid homosexuals to hold keypositions within their ranks,this from a party which has del...
Posted by robbie carree on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:17:00 PST

Amsterdam

Sorry for the blogs written in dutch,but if they are about a very dutch subject like about the death of  writer Jan Wolkers I rather write in dutch alltough I do think that anyone inter...
Posted by robbie carree on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:47:00 PST

vervolg,Jan Wolkers

Teveel internet kan ook zorgen voor een zweer in je hersenen waar de gemiddelde kater nog een puntje aan kan zuigen,het lijkt of mensen steeds makkelijker hun echte gevoelens,anoniem,durven op te schr...
Posted by robbie carree on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:20:00 PST

De Crematie van Jan Wolkers

Vlak voordat ik wegging wierp ik nog een schuine blik op de kapote stoel die in m'n woonkamer lag en waarschijnlijk al veertig jaar had bestaan en waar ik een maand ervoor doorgezakt was,waa...
Posted by robbie carree on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:21:00 PST

Jan Wolkers

Dutch writer Jan Wolkers died...After Joe Zawinul now Jan Wolkers died,Iam still such a child I don't watn people to die...I will miss him...RIP Played Jazzcafé the  Duke tonight,after 20 ye...
Posted by robbie carree on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:41:00 PST

Verdonk,Proud of Holland

Iam really thinking this is not the country I want to live...Rita Verdonk has truly lost her mind I really think she has got a serious mental problem and just as I thought she couldnt get any worse sh...
Posted by robbie carree on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:10:00 PST

theatershow

Tonight was the last gig of the theater show,its pity cause we only had a few but we will back and hit the theaters in january and february with US singer Anna Warr added and will do around 15 gigs th...
Posted by robbie carree on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:35:00 PST

Bad news blues band

Last night I went over to the Duke in Leiden to see the bad news blues band and i had a ball!!The Duke hasnt been the Duke for a long time but when you got a great band like the bad news it makes...
Posted by robbie carree on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:17:00 PST

3 oktober

Zo 3 oktober is weer voorbij en ik kan de stad weer een beetje normaal in en uit.Als je op de morsweg woont en ze besluiten om rond de 3 oktober feesten een stuk van de singel,de marnixstraat en de we...
Posted by robbie carree on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST