The Dutch composer and double bass player Hein van de Geyn (Schijndel, 1956) comes from a musical family. He studied violin for fifteen years and also played guitar. As a teenager he began playing bass guitar. After winning an award in 1977 at the Laren Jazz Festival, he decided bassist be. He made his studies at the conservatory from Tilburg and in 1980 moved to the United States war he worked with
… John Abercrombie. Back in Europe, he played with Toots Thielemans, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and Dee Dee Bridgewater and his group Baseline. Geyn is the music teacher and head of the basafdeling of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He is also a producer for the Dutch jazz label Challenge Records.more
