Big Band Winsum

Big Band Winsum: Swingin' Winsum

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

Big–band dance music of the ’30s and ’40s, which is often known as swng but didn’t always do so, left its incubator in the U.S. to travel around the world and back, establishing a legacy that continues to this day in many countries overseas. Big Band Winsum, based in the Netherlands, is among the contemporary ensembles devoted to that special brand of music, and thanks to bassist Henk Spelberg we have in hand recorded evidence of its explicit point of ...