Ilja Reijngoud
Trombonist Composer Arranger Conductor Teacher/Clinician
This is the site of Ilja Reijngoud, winner of the Thelonious Monk Award (2003) and the Edison Award 2009.
Ilja is leading various small groups under his own name. He plays in The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, The Cubop City Big Band, Lucas van Merwijk Music Machine, Masha Bijlsma quintet and Izaline Calister trio.
Ilja recorded over 120 albums so far. Played and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Jim McNeely, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman etc.
Teacher and bigband leader at both Amsterdam Conservatory (CvA) and Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts), guest teacher at Musikene, San Sebastian (Sp).
His compositions and arrangements are played by Europes leading orchestra’s, such as The Metropole Orchestra, WDR big band, and national military wind bands. Al Jarreau, Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, Joe Alessi and many more played his arrangements.Â
Ilja plays a Kühnl & Hoyer trombone (480/88 MK2) exclusively.
The Bands
The Dutch Real Book
Optional with guests Tineke Postma, Kika Sprangers, Elizabeth Simonian, Margriet Sjoerdsma, Angelo Verploegen and/or Sun Mi Hong.
The Art of Two performs the most significant and beautiful compositions of Dutch Jazz musicians such as Jerry van Rooyen, Rogier van Otterloo and Rob van Bavel. The use of electronics creates a new and wide musical soundscape.
watch: with Tineke Postma with Margriet Sjoerdsma with Sun Mi Hong
Jay & Kai tribute
The quintet of Ilja Reijngoud and Bert Boeren pays tribute to the world most famous trombone group: The Jay & Kai Quintet. Jay Jay Johnson – by far the most virtuoze and influential Jazz artist of his age – teamed up with Kai Winding to play together the Jazz songs of the day, setting a standard for all upcoming trombone players.
Ilja made new and catchy arrangements of their most significant repertoire.
With Rob van Bavel, Marius Beets and Marcel Serierse.
Tornare a Sud
Italian music arranged by Ilja for vocalist and guitar player Davina Marinozzi.
Songs of Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Claudio Villa and Paolo Conte with a new and Jazzy approach.Â
With Rik van der Ouw on bass, who also produced their first album.
As quartet plus Rob van Bavel (pno)
As Quintet plus Rob and Marcel Serierse (drums)
the four seasons
The Art of Two invited Nils van Haften (tenor sax) and vocalist Elizabeth Simonian, to perform the songs of the seasons, such as Summer song, Autumn in New York, Sometimes it snows in April, Now Winter Comes Slowly etc.
Jazz, folk, pop and even some classical songs about the seasons.
Elizabeth was born in Greece to an Armenian father and Swedish mother. She’ll sing besides English songs, also Greek and Swedish repertoire.
Ilja plays 2nd trombone in the band.
He is arranger and guest conductor of the band. He recorded four albums so far with the Orchestra. He is leading and conducting the band with special projects, such as The Jazz-Influencers, and most of the World Music (Latin-Jazz) projects.
