Throwback Thursday: Susanne Alt Quartet - Live At Bimhuis

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! - Some more throwback moments coming along this Thursday...I thought maybe some of you don't know my early work. JAZZ it is...Live At Bimhuis was recorded in 2010 and released in 2011l. This double album features by working band at the time: Thijs Cuppen (keys), Sven Schuster (bass) and Philippe Lemm (drums. Beautifully recorded and mixed at the Amsterdam jazz temple Bimhuis by Micha de Kanter.We still have cd's available in my webshop. I really recommend this album because it captures our band sound and the great audience of a sold out Bimhuis. It was really magical!Digitally everything is available via these platforms: Amazon, iTunes, Spotify and more.. Sometimes you have to type in Susanne Alt Quartet in stead of Susanne Alt only.Here's some live footage: Full playlist on Youtube: