Video and pictures from saturday night at Kurhaus Scheveningen (The Hague). DJ Roog and I were performing. It was a NR Red Carpet Event so that explains all the tuxedos and evening gowns. Kurhaus is a famous place and in this hall many illustrious persons from music history have performed, from Carl Schuricht, pianist Vladimir Horowitz en violist Yehudi Menuhin to Maria Callas, Marlene Dietrich, Duke Ellington, Serge Jaroff, Édith Piaf en John Coltrane, the lst goes on and on. Nowadays the hall is mainly used as event location and restaurant, part of Amrâth Hotel group.
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 and pictures from saturday night at Kurhaus Scheveningen (The Hague). DJ Roog and I were performing. It was a NR Red Carpet Event so that explains all the tuxedos and evening gowns. Kurhaus is a famous place and in this hall many illustrious persons from music history have performed, from Carl Schuricht, pianist Vladimir Horowitz en violist Yehudi Menuhin to Maria Callas, Marlene Dietrich, Duke Ellington, Serge Jaroff, Édith Piaf en John Coltrane, the lst goes on and on. Nowadays the hall is mainly used as event location and restaurant, part of Amrâth Hotel group.
