Barend Courbois

Biography

Son of veteran jazz drummer 'Sir' Pierre Courbois and art teacher Wendelina Courbois-Dam. In 1976, he started to play the bass guitar (he also played the drums, Indian tablas and the Scottish bag pipes at that time), and played his first live performance at the young age of 11, in 1978. He studied jazz bass guitar at the Lyceum of Music in Arnhem, NL.