{"id":2085,"date":"2015-07-27T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=2085"},"modified":"2022-11-12T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:58:06","slug":"marnix-busstra-4-tet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/marnix-busstra-4-tet\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnix Busstra 4-tet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Marnix Busstra 4-tet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/68348521@N03\/sets\/72157629207249169\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7022\/6832386119_21f13040a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Marnix Busstra 4-tet\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marnix Busstra<\/strong> &#8211; guitar<br \/>\n<strong>Bart Defoort<\/strong> &#8211; tenor and soprano sax<br \/>\n<strong>Eric van der Westen<\/strong> &#8211; double bass<br \/>\n<strong>Pieter Bast<\/strong> &#8211; drums<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Marnix Busstra 4-tet<\/strong> performed for a little under ten years, from 1995 to 2005, recording two albums, <em>&#8216;<\/em>On The Face Of It&#8217; and &#8216;The Na\u00efve World&#8217;. One of the main characteristics of the band was their use of seemingly straightforward compositions, sometimes even childlike melodies.<\/p>\n<p>The first line-up, featuring renowned saxophonist Yuri Honing, mostly played the Netherlands. Great reviews allowed the second edition of the band, now with Bart Defoort on saxes, to play abroad as well. The rhythm section, with drummer Pieter Bast and bassist Eric van der Westen, remained the same over the years. The same duo also provides the foundation for the current Mike Mainieri\/Marnix Busstra Quartet.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the Marnix Busstra 4-tet was the acoustic counterpart of Marnix&#8217;s fusion band, Second Vision. Their second album, &#8216;The Na\u00efve World&#8217;, marked the quartet&#8217;s musical breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>As many\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/reviews-marnix-busstra-4-tet\/\">reviews<\/a> have testified, Marnix Busstra and his quartet indeed created a new and unique style of music. Starting from relatively simple compositions, the music develops into &#8220;<em>music of fragile and modest beauty&#8221;<\/em> (NRC), in which<em> &#8220;simplicity and outlook are the point, rather than clever notes&#8221;<\/em> (de Volkskrant).<\/p>\n<p>Jazz Nu described the band&#8217;s compositions as<em> &#8220;initially very simple themes, that are polished to create 18-carat jewels&#8221;<\/em>.<em> &#8220;Music that ranges from light, swinging reggae to relaxed blues in a lyrical\/romantic idiom&#8221;<\/em>, said the Zwolsche Courant. The IJmuider Courant wrote that the 4-tet&#8217;s music <em>&#8220;or once doesn&#8217;t enrage people who hate jazz&#8221;,<\/em> and The Brabants Dagblad described the band&#8217;s performance as <em>&#8220;music in which one can hear how musicians reach the essence of music&#8221;.<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><br \/>\nThe Na\u00efve World &#8211; 1999<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1576358&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=ff7700\" width=\"100%\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><br \/>\nOn The Face Of It &#8211; 1996 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1829139&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marnix Busstra &#8211; guitar Bart Defoort &#8211; tenor and soprano sax Eric van der Westen &#8211; double bass Pieter Bast &#8211; drums The Marnix Busstra 4-tet performed for a little under ten years, from 1995 to 2005, recording two albums, &#8216;On The Face Of It&#8217; and &#8216;The Na\u00efve World&#8217;. One of the main characteristics of the band was their use&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/marnix-busstra-4-tet\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marnixbusstra.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}