Erwin Java

Erwin Raymond Java (Assen, 1956^[1]) is a Dutch guitarist, active since the 1970s, and a music teacher.

Erwin Java
Java, April 2013
Background information
Born	1956 (age 68–69) Assen
Origin	Dutch
Occupation	Guitarist

Biography

Java got his first guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, from his father when he was a teenager.^[2] After attending the gymnasium in Assen, he studied Dutch language and literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Later he attained a degree in music, majoring in guitar, from the Prince Claus Conservatoire.^[1]

One of his first bands was White Honey, from 1978 to 1981, where he played with Hanneke Kappen. When that band stopped, he joined Herman Brood's Wild Romance (1980–1981),^[3][1] and in 1986 joined Cuby and the Blizzards,^[4] a band headed by singer Harry Muskee, for whom Java was a chauffeur for a quarter of a century.^[5] Java also plays as a session musician and produces music,^[1] and has recorded with and done production for Marjol Flore, Splitsing, Gina de Wit, Bertus Borgers, Daniel Sahuleka, Kaz Lux, and Tineke Schoemaker.

In 1996 he co-founded the Noorder Muziek Instituut in Groningen, a professional private music school, where he also taught guitar.^[1]

Discography

Source: Encyclopedie van Drenthe.^[1]

With White Honey

• Some Kinda Woman (1979)

With Cuby and the Blizzards/Harry Muskee

• Rimshots in the Dark (1986)
• Cut de Luxe (1990)
• Muskee Live (1991)
• Skysongs on the Spot (1994)
• Cuby is Back – Live (1997)
• Dancin' Bear (1998)
• Hotel Grolloo (2000)