Drummer Pierre Cour Bois (1940, Nijmegen) stands as melodic and musical drummer - always perfectly tuned drums - with a way of playing which always sounds the theme and chord progressions of the pieces. His use of odd time signatures derived from other cultures has significantly expanded the rhythmic vocabulary of Dutch jazz and improvised music. He is in our country the undisputed master of the
… underrated art of playing with brushes, which he personally learned in his youth by Kenny Clarke. "Thus, the jury of the VPRO / Boy Edgar Prize 2008. Cour Bois was the early sixties one of the first Dutch standing on the free improvisation collapsed, along with including Gunter Hampel and Willem Breuker. With his group Association P.C. he was early seventies one of the pioneers of jazz rock.more
