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Sebastiaan Cornelissen

Dutch drummer/composer Sebastiaan Cornelissen studied at The Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has worked/recorded with: Randy Brecker, Jim Beard, Gary Willis, Gary Husband, Mike Miller, Steve Hunt, Wayne Johnson, Susan Weinert, Scott Kinsey, Tom Kennedy, Gerard Presencer, Hadrien Feraud, Alex Machacek, Damian Erskine, Jimmy Haslip, Richard Hallebeek, Jimmy Earl, Frank Gambale, Mike Outram a.o

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Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

Read "U-Turn" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It's a minute and forty seconds before Sebastiaan Cornelissen's drums ease into the frame on U-Turn. Although he has a lot to say he's clearly not in a rush; this second solo effort has been seven years coming and has taken four years to put together. The fourteen pieces, which could almost be seen as a continuous suite given their stylistic uniformity, are less about his playing and more about his writing. With the aid of no fewer that seventeen ...

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Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

Read "U-Turn" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


If there's one weakness in recent fusion releases, it's that they are sometimes too formulaic, with overcooked tempos and melodies that have hardly deviated since the sounds of groundbreaking progenitors such as The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Where's the creativity and new identity? Well one place it can be heard is in Dutch drummer and composer Sebastiaan Cornelissen's U-Turn. With duties as a musician and teacher dividing his time between the UK and native Holland, Cornelissen ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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indipendent
2020

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Sebastiaan...

Munich Records
2011

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U-Turn

Abstract Logix
2009

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Aggressive Attack

Munich Records
2002

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