Today is the official release of Royalty For Real! The album features James Hurt (keys), Gerald Cannon (bass) and Willie Jones III (drums). Yesterday we already celebrated the release with a concert at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, together with Timothy Banchet (keys), Thomas Pol (bass), Yoran Vroom (drums) and Danique Kos (percussion). If you plan to buy the cd or vinyl, go to my brandnew shop! Maybe you don't have physical audio media anymore? Hop over to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Youtube Music etc Note: Composers and musicians (rightholders) get very very little money out of streaming. So for true support, buying straight from the artist is the best. Personally I also think that the listening experience is the best when physically putting on a physical record :-) I am so happy about this album and almost couldn't wait to share it with you so here we are!
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! - Today is the official release of Royalty For Real!The album features James Hurt (keys), Gerald Cannon (bass) and Willie Jones III (drums).Yesterday we already celebrated the release with a concert at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, together with Timothy Banchet (keys), Thomas Pol (bass), Yoran Vroom (drums) and Danique Kos (percussion).If you plan to buy the cd or vinyl, go to my brandnew shop!Maybe you don't have physical audio media anymore? Hop over to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Youtube Music etcNote: Composers and musicians (rightholders) get very very little money out of streaming. So for true support, buying straight from the artist is the best. Personally I also think that the listening experience is the best when physically putting on a physical record :-)I am so happy about this album and almost couldn't wait to share it with you so here we are!
