Yesterday Lorren Rettich, Gianna Tam, Leroy Rey and I we performing as Wicked Jazz Sounds at a party in Leeuwarden. On the way to the gig we were in a little snow storm including thunder and lightening so winter finally showed its face. The gig took place at Neushoorn, a beautiful modern multifunctional concert venue which replaced a legendary but outdated night club I remember playing there about 8 years ago. So here we were, in the brandnew building, playing at an event, DJ Leroy Rey was spinning his nicest tracks and Gianna, Lorren and I were improvising on it. Good times!
On the way back we had to take a different route because of road construction works. So we had to drive through this really pittoresque village at night and follow "1" (plate number). Of course it's always good to follow the "one".
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! - Yesterday Lorren Rettich, Gianna Tam, Leroy Rey and I we performing as Wicked Jazz Sounds at a party in Leeuwarden.On the way to the gig we were in a little snow storm including thunder and lightening so winter finally showed its face.The gig took place at Neushoorn, a beautiful modern multifunctional concert venue which replaced a legendary but outdated night club I remember playing there about 8 years ago. So here we were, in the brandnew building, playing at an event, DJ Leroy Rey was spinning his nicest tracks and Gianna, Lorren and I were improvising on it. Good times!On the way back we had to take a different route because of road construction works. So we had to drive through this really pittoresque village at night and follow 1 (plate number). Of course it's always good to follow the one.
