A few weeks ago, more than 20 musicians living in the Netherlands were performing on this festival tour by Banyan Tree Events, the Word Jazz Festival. It was organised as a tour through several Indian cities. I've learned recently that Bangalore is officially named Bengaluru and Bombay is Mumbai. There were also shows in other cities but I flew stratight to Bengaluru and performed acoustic jazz; a few tunes from my new album and as you can see also made people dance together with Zosja as Venus Tunes Live.
Here's a little compilation of some of the concerts in these cities. These musicians were performing here: Alexander Beets, Rolf Delfos, Lucas Santana, Ellister van der Molen, Susanne Alt, Zosja El Rhazi, Anna Serierse, Lizzy Ossevoort, Baer Traa, Sebastiaan van Bavel, Timothy Banchet, Davor Stehlik, Marius Beets, Matheus Nicolaiewsky, Tim Hennekes and Sven Rozier. Robert Glass joined me for filming and tour management. Please fill me in if I forgot you! Special thanks to Banyan Tree for inviting us and Alexander Beets and Sven Rozier for putting the program together and coordinating our travels!
This is the title track called Dark Horse. Just as in the album version it features sax and piano solos. It's a pretty wild performance, matching today's start of the Chinese New Year: THE YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE!Live at Bimhuis, we added a drum solo. Afterwards, I decided to seperate it from the song and post it as an extra video below. Why not in one video?Because the video would become very very long and experience shows that people will not stick around for longer that 6-7 minutes. Yoràn's free drum solo is actually really great and in this seperate video, the true drum lovers can watch and learn from his drum story telling. Sometimes people ask me; What are drummers doing in their solos? To give you an idea of what Yoràn is doing in his solo: He starts with a pattern, an idea. He keeps the pattern going and plays variations over it. Then he combines it with soloing over it with call and reponse phrases and slides in new patterns. Technically it's interesting because he demonstrates a lot of independence and speed, as well as dynamics and sound colours, while telling a story, which means in musical context that the solo has certain elements which can be recognized by the (trained) listener. Many people in the Western part of the world miss the melodic and harmonic context during a free drum solo. It's fair to say a free drum solo without any accompaniment is like an abstract painting. Within the given context you can hear and see what you can manage, depending on your own frame of reference and expectations. In the end, it's about: does it resonate with you? Because both, the painting and the free drum solo, they lack a clear subject (no lyrics, no recognizable image), both forms are highly subjective and open to the interpretation of the audience. They function as a conversation between the artist's feeling and the viewer's/listener's perception.But you also can listen to it with a pure analytical drum ear and try to follow the patterns and phrases. As a musician and human I (try to) do both :-) Enjoy!More info:Susanne Alt: sax, Matthijs Geerts and Ike van Bergen: keys, Thomas Pol: bass, Yoràn Vroom: drums, Helene Jank: percussion Performed at 16th of January 2026 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Recorded by Onno Prillwitz Filmed by Robert Glass and Albert Nooij. - A few weeks ago, more than 20 musicians living in the Netherlands were performing on this festival tour by Banyan Tree Events, the Word Jazz Festival. It was organised as a tour through several Indian cities. I've learned recently that Bangalore is officially named Bengaluru and Bombay is Mumbai. There were also shows in other cities but I flew stratight to Bengaluru and performed acoustic jazz; a few tunes from my new album and as you can see also made people dance together with Zosja as Venus Tunes Live.Here's a little compilation of some of the concerts in these cities. These musicians were performing here: Alexander Beets, Rolf Delfos, Lucas Santana, Ellister van der Molen, Susanne Alt, Zosja El Rhazi, Anna Serierse, Lizzy Ossevoort, Baer Traa, Sebastiaan van Bavel, Timothy Banchet, Davor Stehlik, Marius Beets, Matheus Nicolaiewsky, Tim Hennekes and Sven Rozier. Robert Glass joined me for filming and tour management. Please fill me in if I forgot you!Special thanks to Banyan Tree for inviting us and Alexander Beets and Sven Rozier for putting the program together and coordinating our travels!
