Rico de Jeer

Rico de Jeer knew that he wanted to play the bass from the time that one of his brothers played him the LP "Armed Forces" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions with Bruce Thomas on bass. This desire was fueled when he saw a classmate perform with his band. After another classmate asked him for a 'guitar club' the actual playing of this instrument became reality. In his final year of high school he bought his first bass: a metallic-green Maya bass.

In 1986 Rico enrolled at the University of Groningen to study Psychology and after that first year he switched to a study Economics. In 1988 he bought the 1976 Fender Jazz Bass he still plays now and in the summer of that same year he went to Budapest by bus to buy his first doublebass. In 1991 he quit his studies at the University to prepare for his admission to the Hilversum’s Conservatory.

His musical preference by then had shifted from pop to blues to jazz. The Fender bass was left in a corner of his room for a number of years. A student at the Hilversum’s Conservatory gave him his first doublebass lessons and with him Rico was preparing for his own admission. In 1992, he was admitted to the Hilversum’s Conservatory.
In 1993 Rico moved from Groningen to Amsterdam to be closer to school. During his training he studied with (amongst others) Koos Serierse, Rob Langerijs, Ruud Ouwehand, Edward Mebius and Ernst Glerum to finally graduate in 1998 with Arnold Dooyeweerd.

From his current hometown Hilversum Rico unfolds a variety of activities including teaching and playing with several bands, kampongs them are the Kai von Rosenberg Trio, Klatwerk 3 and Jesper Buhl Trio.