Chris Hinze Combination - 1971 - Live At Montreux

Chris Hinze Combination

1971

Live At Montreux

01. My New Thing
02. Visiting Newark
03. Neighbors

Roger Cook / bass
Wim Stolwijk / keyboards, electric piano
Chris Hinze / piccolo flute, arrangements, writing, flute
Jim Shaaperoe / drums

From the liner notes: recorded live in Concert At The Montreux Jazz Festival in the Casino at the border of Lake Geneva, on Wednesday, June 16, 1971.

Apart from his baroque-jazz and world music Chris Hinze demonstrated still more sides of his versatile musical personality: the funky jazz-rock 'Chris Hinze Combination' was presented internationally in 1971 in the Casino at Lake Geneva. There 'the magician of Montreux', as they called him, received the Press Award for best soloist of the Montreux Jazz Festival. From then on Hinze went on the road all over Europe. Mainly American musicians joined the Combination, like John Lee, Gary Brown Charlie Mariano, James Batton, Kevin Eubanks, and many others. But also European musicians like Jasper van ‘t Hof, Rob van den Broeck, Henny Vonk, Sigi Schwab, Joachim Kühn, Philip Catherine played in The Chris Hinze Combination until Hinze left for New York in 1976 where he lived until 1979.