New Niks

Drummer/composer Arend Niks collaborated with a number of artists on the Dutch creative music scene, including an ongoing stint as drummer for guitarist Corrie van Binsbergen's avant jazz-rock band Corrie en de Grote Brokken, before stepping out as a leader of his own group, the Niks Project, an octet that released the album Future Museum in 1998. He premiered New Niks, his aptly named electric jazz quartet featuring Erwin Hoorweg on electric piano, Andreas Suntrop on electric guitar, and the Zapp String Quartet's Jasper le Clercq on violin, after the turn of the millennium at...