Gig pics+vids: Susanne Alt Quartet at Fascinating Jazz, Zoetermeer

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! - Video by In De Regio /John Meijer, interview by Els Wohrmann.On Sunday 03-03-2019 Hans de Wild, Sven Schuster, Victor de Boo and I performed at Fascinating Jazz in Zoetermeer. One week ago, in Amersfoort, it was full house already, and now again! Fantastic to see so many jazz enthusiasts showing up to a concert. One more jazz date to go: 16-03-2019 at Cotton Club Amsterdam! See agenda. Also because we play mostly original compositions, no special request for jazz standards. Thanks to Fascinating Jazz for booking us! Hope to be back another time! All pictures (c) by Ernst van Erkelens except for the last picture (c) by Lidy Angevare.