Results for "Jasper van Damme"

Jasper van Damme

Dutch Concert Big Band: Plays Dutch Originals

by Jack Bowers
February 14, 2018

If you think locating a needle in a haystack is strenuous, try finding something less than complimentary to say about Plays Dutch Originals, an absolutely marvelous recording by the superlative Dutch Concert Big Band. As far as can be determined, this is the only album set down (to date) by the band, which was formed in ...

BvR Flamenco Big Band: Jaleo Holandes

by Jack Bowers
December 21, 2014

How did a jazz musician based in The Netherlands become so immersed in flamenco, a form of folk music and dance from Spain's Andalusia region? The answer becomes self-evident when one reads in Bernard van Rossum's bio that he was born and raised in Spain by an English mother and Dutch father. Flamenco has thus been ...