Ruben Hein – Hopscotch ‘Jump out, you’re in the grave In the boxes and you are safe but never saved’ (Hopscotch) Hopscotch is a children’s game with consequences. If you step on a line, your turn ends. Stay inside the line and you are safe. And if you want to progress, you need to take risks. What Ruben Hein (Nijmegen, 1982) is trying to say is that he has skipped a square further. Loose Fit, which debuting on Blue Note, has already been around for two years. The pianist, who at the insistence of Benjamin Herman could also sing, has learned a lot. He has played together wit… read more
Ruben Hein – Hopscotch ‘Jump out, you’re in the grave In the boxes and you are safe but never saved’ (Hopscotch) Hopscotch is a children’s gam… read more
Ruben Hein – Hopscotch ‘Jump out, you’re in the grave In the boxes and you are safe but never saved’ (Hopscotch) Hopscotch is a children’s game with consequences. If you step on a… read more
Born in 1982, singer and jazz pianist Ruben Hein grew up in a very musically gifted family, near the city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. At the age of four he discovered the piano. By the time he was eight years old, he had his first classical lessons at the local music school. Already in this period of his life, Ruben was fascinated by musicians like Ray Charles, Randy Newman, Miles Davis, the Beach boys and the Beatles. Soon after his first classical lessons, Ruben started taking jazz lessons. In 2001 Ruben started to study jazz piano at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In the summer… read more
Born in 1982, singer and jazz pianist Ruben Hein grew up in a very musically gifted family, near the city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. At the age of four he discovered the piano. By the ti… read more
Born in 1982, singer and jazz pianist Ruben Hein grew up in a very musically gifted family, near the city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. At the age of four he discovered the piano. By the time he was eight years old, he had his first cl… read more