Erwin Java | |
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![]() Java, April 2013 | |
Background information | |
Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Assen |
Origin | Dutch |
Occupation(s) | Guitarist |
Erwin Raymond Java (Assen, 1956[1]) is a Dutch guitarist, active since the 1970s, and a music teacher.
Biography
[edit]Java got his first guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, from his father when he was a teenager.[2] After attending the gymnasium in Assen, he studied Dutch language and literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Later he attained a degree in music, majoring in guitar, from the Prince Claus Conservatoire.[1]
One of his first bands was White Honey, from 1978 to 1981, where he played with Hanneke Kappen. When that band stopped, he joined Herman Brood's Wild Romance (1980–1981),[3][1] and in 1986 joined Cuby and the Blizzards,[4] a band headed by singer Harry Muskee, for whom Java was a chauffeur for a quarter of a century.[5] Java also plays as a session musician and produces music,[1] and has recorded with and done production for Marjol Flore, Splitsing, Gina de Wit, Bertus Borgers, Daniel Sahuleka, Kaz Lux, and Tineke Schoemaker.
In 1996 he co-founded the Noorder Muziek Instituut in Groningen, a professional private music school, where he also taught guitar.[1]
Discography
[edit]Source: Encyclopedie van Drenthe.[1]
With White Honey
[edit]- Some Kinda Woman (1979)
With Cuby and the Blizzards/Harry Muskee
[edit]- Rimshots in the Dark (1986)
- Cut de Luxe (1990)
- Muskee Live (1991)
- Skysongs on the Spot (1994)
- Cuby is Back – Live (1997)
- Dancin' Bear (1998)
- Hotel Grolloo (2000)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Java, Erwin Raymond". Encyclopedie van Drenthe. Vol. 1. Van Gorcum. 2003. p. 452. ISBN 9789023239321.
- ^ Fender Stratocaster viert z'n zestigste verjaardag, Leeuwarder Courant, 25 January 2014 (in Dutch)
- ^ van der Meer, Alex (23 March 2021). "Terugblik: de betekenis van Het Groninger Springtij". 3VOOR12 (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Muskee, Harry". Encyclopedie van Drenthe. Vol. 1. Van Gorcum. 2003. pp. 634–35. ISBN 9789023239321.
- ^ van Egmond, Michel; Scheulderman, Antoinnette (2021). Derksen: Het spraakmakende leven van Johan Derksen. Overamstel. p. 85. ISBN 9789048858682.