Traveling between Leiden and New York, for Jazz and Chocolate
Traveling between Leiden and New York, for Jazz and Chocolate
Let me tell you a little bit about my collaboration with Robin Koerts. You might have seen some clips or pics on the internet of us performing at various shows, but it’s pretty hard to get what we actually do…
Just a couple of days after I got back to the Netherlands for my summerbreak, Terence Blanchard was playing with his band in the Bimhuis. He invited me and Ted to come to the show. It was packed, and everybody…
Last January I organized a concert during the Leidse Jazz Week in the Hooglandse Kerk in the Netherlands, a big church in the center of Leiden. I really wanted to perform with Florian Weber and since he is on tour…
We performed a couple of the songs we have been working on this semester with Dave Gilmore and here are the recordings. I’m especially happy with one of the recordings which is my original composition ‘the Concept of Falling’. David…
Today I had a concert in the Outpost, in Boston. This was a concert in a series my friends organize called; four duo’s in momentum. The idea is that every concert there will be four duo’s performing that will create…
This april I was asked to sing at the Fulbright TEDx event in Washington DC. Two years ago I played some songs at their 1st one in Boston and in this little time they had grown into an enormous happening,…
Tonight I went to Kenny Garret with my friend Gabriela. This amazing saxophonist has been in the scene for over 40 years and he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard Woody Shaw, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers…
November 2013 I played my first gig in NYC, in the metropolitan room in Manhattan. A full hour concert with all original songs. Really exciting! I spend a lot of time working out the program, doing the marketing and preparing…
Last week I met Lee Ritenour because he was in the jury of the Montreux guitar competition. There I was with Leandro Pellegrino, my Berklee School mate, who won the competition. Lee told us that he would be in Paris…
12 oktober 2012 Ik kwam dus rond 5:30am terug bij Joe, en hij was nog wakker (?!). Hij vertelde me dat hij wel 10 uur piano had gestudeerd en dat hij klaar was om piano te spelen. We speelden liederen…
20 oktober 2012 Overdag thee gedronken met Gabriella Martina. Zij komt uit Zwitserland en is al een tijdje afgestudeerd aan Berklee en werkt nu als zangeres en docent in Boston en omgeving. Je kunt haar nieuwe cd beluisteren op haar…
16 oktober Vanaaf ging ik optreden in Ryles met David Scott, mijn zangleraar. Naast mij waren er nog 3 andere zangeressen die hij had uitgekozen, allen erg goed: Song Yi Jeon, Emily Miller en Deborah Pierre. We werden begeleid door…
