Wilhelm Tell - Dutch Swing College
- 16 years ago
Wilhelm Tell Ouverture – Dutch Swing College ± 1976
You would not expect Rossini’s Wilhelm Tell Ouverure being played by a jazz band unless you are a Dutchman. Our famous Dutch Swing College Band recorded this in the mid seventies and locally it had been a bestseller in those days. What a surprise to find it on a video probably from around 1976 during a Dutch TV show called Hit Boulevard.
I’m always completely surprised by the unbelievably creative solos by Peter Schilperoort and trombonist Dickie Kaart over chord progressions of a tune that is certainly not going along the regular patterns. Another surprise is to see Dickie’s younger brother Ray Kaart sitting in for the band’s regular trumpeter.
Ray, usually a bit on the modern side for leader Peter does a marvelous substitute job. Other members are Jaap van Kempen banjo, Henk Bosch van Drakestein bass and probably Europe’s best drummer Huub Janssen
You would not expect Rossini’s Wilhelm Tell Ouverure being played by a jazz band unless you are a Dutchman. Our famous Dutch Swing College Band recorded this in the mid seventies and locally it had been a bestseller in those days. What a surprise to find it on a video probably from around 1976 during a Dutch TV show called Hit Boulevard.
I’m always completely surprised by the unbelievably creative solos by Peter Schilperoort and trombonist Dickie Kaart over chord progressions of a tune that is certainly not going along the regular patterns. Another surprise is to see Dickie’s younger brother Ray Kaart sitting in for the band’s regular trumpeter.
Ray, usually a bit on the modern side for leader Peter does a marvelous substitute job. Other members are Jaap van Kempen banjo, Henk Bosch van Drakestein bass and probably Europe’s best drummer Huub Janssen