May 18, 2014 In Uncategorized

Concert with Lee Konitz & Florian Weber

2014-01-27 07.05.43Last 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 a lot with Lee Konitz we decided that it was nice to ask him too.

I was sponsored by the municipality of Leiden and some private sponsors and I’m very thankful that it came together with the programmer of the other concerts in the Church.

The whole weekend was amazing. Meeting and spending time with Lee and Florian, hearing his stories and sharing the stage was a life changing experience. I’m so humble and thankful for this opportunity!

See here some pictures.

November 15, 2013 In Uncategorized

Concert Metropolitan Room NYC

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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 the show.

This opportunity arrived last year, when I went – after a long day of recording sessions – with bass player Ray Parker to a show in the Metropolitan room NYC. Annie Ross was performing. I am big fan of her, so I was really excited to see it. Ray was friends with JP the sound engineer and after the show we all had a drink. He listened to my cd – polaroid – and thought it was so nice that he told the programmer. So it happened, my first gig in NYC… I planned for November.

My wish was to play with Florian Weber who I met in NYC when he was playing a show with – Dutch trumpeter – Eric Vloeimans. Florian liked my compositions and we talked a lot about composing, lyrics and life.

Then it was finally there, that weekend I traveled to NYC, and met up with Florian for a rehearsal on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The concert was on Sunday night and it all went well, but I must say; playing in NYC is a whole different thing. Here are the recordings 🙂