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!
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - 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!
