Mission Suite (Remastered) Chris Hinze Combination

• 1 Di-Da-De-Lu-Da 08:05
• 2 Mission Suite 14:53
• 3 Deliverance 11:21
• 4 The Ballad 03:51
• 5 Bamboo Funk 05:28
• Total Runtime 43:38

Info for Mission Suite (Remastered)

Endowed with formidable classical and jazz chops, Dutch flutist Chris Hinze has played with Charlie Mariano, Cecil Taylor, and the Brecker Brothers. The lauded Chris Hinze Combination includes two jazz stalwarts, bassist John Lee and drummer Gerry Brown; both credit work with the “who’s who” of the jazz and pop world. Add vocals, electric keyboard, guitar, and percussion, and you have a tasty concoction of jazz and funk, with a pinch of pop and the classics for flavoring. Di-da-du-la-da is a musical tryptic of furious fusion, rhapsodic lyricism, and fast and funky bass-and-drums-led improvisation. Mission Suite is all about modal interplay, including a sizzlingly vocal flute, and a haunting bowed bass-vocal duet. Deliverance highlights Hinze’s passionate, throaty flute solo, the use of space, open tempos, and the emotional gestalt of singer Henny Vonk. The Ballad has an archaic sylvan quality, and Bamboo Funk starts off with a Baroque-tinged melody before it gets down to delivering what the title implies – Chris at his funky best on bamboo flute. An outstanding fusion venture by one of jazz’s premier flutists.

Chris Hinze, flute, alto-flute, bamboo flute, piccolo flute
Henny Vonk, vocals, percussion
Sigi Schwab, guitars, 12-string guitar
John Lee, bass
Gerry Brown, drums
Rob van de Broeck, electric piano, Fender Rhodes
Cees See, percussion
Wim van der Beek, percussion

Recorded in The Cornett Studio Köln
Engineered by Wolfgang Hirschmann
Produced by Willi Fruth, Chris Hinze

Digitally remastered

Chris Hinze
was born in Hilversum, in the Netherlands. He began his musical studies on the piano at the age of 12. After working as a pianist all over Europe for several years, he returned to Holland and entered the Royal Conservatory in The Hague to study the flute. Around that time he met bass player Dick van der Capellen and together with Cees See/Martin van Duinhoven, they formed the 'Dick van der Capellen trio'. ('The Present is Past'). After getting his degree at the Royal Conservatory in 1969, Chris won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston to study composition and arranging. Whilst at Berklee, he started to produce his unique Baroque/Jazz albums 'Telemann my Way', 'Vivat Vivaldi' etc. He also founded the 'Chris Hinze Combination'.

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