When US producer Zev Feltman asked Frank Jochemsen of the Nederlands Jazz Archive if there were any interesting recordings of Chet Baker (1929 – 1988) on Dutch shelves, Jochemsen did not expect too much. Today 35 years ago the American jazz trumpeter died after falling from an Amsterdam hotel window. Poking around in the radio […]
Frank Jochemsen
A musical eruption like never heard before: Sonny Rollins in Holland
One of the best concerts ever given in the Netherlands was the performance by the American tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins (1930) at the Arnhem Academy of Art in 1967. “It was a musical eruption like never heard before and that probably never will happen again,” said saxophonist and jazz promoter Hans Dulfer, who was in […]