Eric Ineke (born Haarlem, April 1, 1947) is a Dutch jazz drummer who started his career in the 1960s. In 1969 he made his first record with tenor saxophonist Ferdinand Povel and through the years he has played with thé Rob Agerbeek Quintet, the Rein de Graaff/Dick Vennik Quartet, the Ben van den Dungen/Jarmo Hoogendijk Quintet and the Piet Noordijk Quartet. During his career he also played with numerous international, mainly American soloists like Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, George Coleman, Shirley Horn, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Cohn, Grant Stewart, Jimmy Raney, Barry Harris, Eric Alexander (jazz saxophonist) and Dave Liebman, recorded numerous CD's and appears on many national and international Jazzfestivals like North Sea Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Pescara Jazz, San Remo, Athens, Toronto Jazz Festival, Montreal International Jazz Festival and New York. For more than 35 years he is the drummer of the Rein de Graaff Trio and is leading the Eric Ineke JazzXpress since 2006, a quintet in the hard-bop tradition. With this quintet, Eric Ineke got invited in 2011 by the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City with jazz singer Deborah Brown where they did a few performances, including a performance on the Kansas Public Radio and a CD recording produced by Bobby Watson.
Eric Ineke also teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and music school Koorenhuis in The Hague. In april 2012 he released his first book The Ultimate Sideman (Publisher Pincio). Jazz Master Drummer Eric Ineke talks about the artists he has played with since 1968 in conversation with Dave Liebman.
