'As the old cock crows...' A nice Irish saying meaning 'like father like son' (Dutch: 'de appel valt niet ver van de boom'). Rob van Bavel (1965, father) comes from a musical family; his father was a respected classical pianist/educator and there was always a lot of music in the house. At a young age (10) Rob decided to choose a life in music, at first classical music, but at the age of 15 he chose a definite career in Jazz. Sebastiaan van Bavel (1992, son) also comes from a similar musical environment. At the age of 10, he had already recorded one tune with his father on 'Piano Grand Slam' (the new Rob van Bavel Trio) and was invited by Hein vd Geyn to play with trombonist Conrad Herwig at the North Sea Jazzfestival 2007, and with tenor saxophonist Steve Grossman in 2008 at the 'Gouvy Jazzfestival' Together Rob & Sebastiaan had some occasional performances as a piano-duo (at the Bechstein center in 2007 & with Big Band Blast) but now they are a serious piano-duo! The repertoire consists of Jazz Standards (Rollins, Coltrane), Classical music (Scriabin, Debussy, Fauré) but mainly original compositions written for this Duo, with various influences from minimal music, world-music, modern jazz, gospel and more.. Sebastiaan van Bavel (1992): • Edison award 2014 • graduated in 2015 from 'Codarts' (Rotterdam) with the highest mark (10) • various prizes: 2008: 1st prize Prinses Christina Concours Jazz 2011: 1st prize Prinses Christina Concours Classical 2012: 1st prize Dordtse Jazz Competition 2015: Conservatory talent award 2016: 2nd prize at the Unisa International Piano Competition (South Africa) • Rob van Bavel (1965): • Edison award 1990 • graduated in 1987 from the Rotterdam Conservatory with the highest mark (10) • various prizes: 1987: Wessel Ilcken award, 1st prize Hoeilaart (Belgium), soloist award Leverkusen (Germany), 2nd prize Thelonious Monk Competition (Washington D.C.) 1988: soloist award Hoeilaart (Belgium), 1st prize trio Leverkusen (Germany) 2011: 'Langs de Lijn Award' (Bussum) Recorded live at 'de Bovenkamer' (Zeist) by Udo Pannekeet on June 12 2015 Mixed and mastered at WedgeView Studios on February 20th 2016. Photography and design by Felipe Pipi. Special thanks to Henk Hupkes for supporting us! 1. Épigraphes antiques No.1 (Claude Debussy) + Towards the light (Rob van Bavel) 2. 5678 (Rob van Bavel) 3. Coltrane Suite (After the rain/Naima/Countdown) 4. Prelude No.2, Opus 11 (Alexandr Skryabin) + Prelude for Jules (Rob van Bavel) 5. Minimal effort, maximum result (Rob van Bavel) 6. Oleo (Sonny Rollins)