Love is just around the corner Dixieland Seven 1965

The Dixieland Seven from the Netherlands 1965!
Bob Erwig trumpet, Joop Postma clarinet, Jan Meeuwisse trombone, Dick Posthuma piano, Ad Funcke guitar, Willem Van Den Bos bass, Ted de Jong drums.
In 1965 I was member of a very talented local band while still living in the Netherlands. I played trumpet in The Dixieland Seven of Naarden-Bussum, a suburb town of Amsterdam.
We had a swinging rhythm section and played very much in the Eddy Condon idiom.
Our band was the winner at the AVRO radio competition that year and the price was to play a concert in the concerthall of the Kurhaus Hotel in Scheveningen with New Orleans clarinettist Albert Nicholas.
Unfortunately that concert was probably never recorded but that same year we ended up in a Hilversum recording studio to play some tunes.
I' am quite proud of these recordings and like to post one for you on dailymotion.
When we were visiting Holland a few years later I had my old 8mm movie camera and while standing in my brother's car I filmed the streets and avenues of Naarden-Bussum, the town we grew up in.
In combining these movie clips with the music You'll get an idea of where this all happened.

Andor's Jazz Band 

(http://www.andorsjazzbandholl and.com/) in the "Kammgarnsaal" Traiskirchen (Austria), May 2005.
Featuring Kurt Weiss - trumpet

Andor's Jazz Band 

(http://www.andorsjazzbandholl and.com/) in the "Kammgarnsaal" Traiskirchen (Austria), May 2005.

It Could Happen to You Reys Rita/Oliver Nelson 1966

The 2005 Dutch TV program called Jazz Cellar concentrates to broadcast jazz clips from their archives of material originally recorded in the fifties and sixties in the Netherlands.
In the 20th anniversary concert for TV station NCRV ( Netherlands Christian Radio Association) in 1966 we see Dutch vocalist Rita Reys with her husband Pim Jacobs and his Trio together with an American front line under leadership of Oliver Nelson. Solos are by trumpet player Benny Bailey and Art Farmer playing the fluegelhorn

I've got the world on a string Reys Rita 1960

The Dutch vocalist Rita Reys certainly deserves the title " Europe's First Lady of Jazz. In another one hour Dutch jazz TV show, where interviewers mainly talked with musicians, fortunately a full chorus of Rita Reys singing in 1960 with the Pim Jacobs trio was spared, with Pim on piano and his brother Ruud on bass.
Rita, she'll be about 82, still performs in the great concert halls in Europe.

The 13th Megève jazz contest 2006;

The Jurbena Jazz Band in the "Palais des sports" of Megève (France).
(http://www.jurbena.nl/) ... (more) (less)

Relaxin' at the Camarillo

Pim Jacobs Trio with Wim Overgaauw on guitar and Pim's brother Ruud on bass. These Dutch musicians were the best in their field.
The togetherness, the precision and their complete sense of swing is no less than astonishing in this 1961 performance of Relaxin' at Camarillo

Cheek to Cheek Reys Rita/Pim Jacobs 1959

Rita Reys was the greatest jazz singer in the Netherlands. Now, in 2006 Rita is still performing. In 1960 she married pianist Pim Jacobs.
In this clip, one of her very first TV appearances in 1959, she sings Cheek to Cheek together with her future husband Pim, together with Pim's brother, Ruud Jacobs on bass and drummer Cees See.

Like someone in love, Reys Rita 1960

(Europe's First Lady of Jazz)
Can jazz get any better? Here is singer Rita Reys with the Pim Jacobs Trio. Pim on piano, his brother Ruud on bass and guitarist Wim Overgaauw. An unbelievable hair raising performance. The emotion that Rita creates in probably for her in a natural manner but makes her in my mind one of the very best ever.
Maybe it is because I'm older now, but in my early jazz playing years in the Netherlands I didn't pay much attention to her talent.
Now I want to see if I can buy any CD's of Rita from the sixties with Pim's stunning trio.
Rita, born in 1924, is still performing. On my next trip to Holland I like to make it a point to see her perform.
Long live Europe's First Lady of Jazz ( officially since 1960)