Reinier Baas is the recipient of the Boy Edgar Award 2025. He is a guitarist, composer, producer and educator based in Amsterdam. His music has been lauded by international press. His albums have been awarded with two Edison Jazz Awards.
Baas’ music is characterised by “unpredictability with a reassuring sense of overall form”. A description of The New York City Jazz Record reads: “The music was assembled in unusual ways. Arcane harmonies suggest Bartók or Stravinsky, but then structures would fracture and hip-hop rhythms would suddenly hit hard and then everything would become wild flurries and improvised cacophonies before the music returned to solemn, orderly, if angular forms.”
“A breathtakingly talented guitarist, who is able to impress and touch with his instrument, and a gifted composer who dares to take risk on top of this.”
— Jazzism
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