Annie van 't Zelfde

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Annie van 't Zelfde (born May 26, 1913 in Rotterdam ; † June 18, 2000 there ) was a Dutch jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and pianist.

Annie van 't Zelfde studied piano at the Rotterdam Conservatory , but switched to saxophone and clarinet in the early 1930s under the influence of Babe Eagan 's American women's dance orchestra, which was touring Europe in 1929 . She was friends with the trumpeter Clara de Vries and played with her in various newly founded women's dance orchestras, including the Jazz Blues Ladies under the direction of Leo Selinsky and Alexander Schirmann's Jazz Girls and with the Jazz Ladies directed by Clara de Vries . They also accompanied Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Dunn in Rotterdam in 1937 . Then she was briefly at Jack de Vries ' Internationals . In 1938 they played with Clara de Vries for the Rosian Ladies ; in the same year she married the musician Jack Kooijman; it continued to appear during pregnancy. From 1939 to 1946 she had her own band, the Swing Starrs . During the occupation she also played in Otto Hendricks' Sunday afternoon cabaret.

After the war, she performed as an entertainment musician on the piano and the Hammond organ, and sang as well. In 1948 she accompanied Rex Stewart . In the 1960s she gave concerts in her second husband's cafe in Breda; in the 1970s and 1980s she played a lot at City Corner in Rotterdam. In 1972 she made a TV appearance with the orchestra of Rogier van Otterloo . In 1989 she also appeared with the women's orchestra Sophisticated Ladies , which was formed from students from the Rotterdam Conservatory under the direction of Teddy Steen , but also with the Willem Breuker Kollektief in its New Years program for the Klap op de Vuurpijl festival .

Zelfde is one of the eyewitnesses in the television film Sweet and hot Music - Nederlandse damesorkesten uit de jaren '30 by Netty van Hoorn (1989). In 1991 she was honored by the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond for her work with the Gouden Notekraker .

She also had the stage name Annie the Same , an English translation of her last name.

literature

  • Wim van Eyle et al. a .: Jazz & Geimproviseerde Muziek in Nederland, Het Spectrum 1978, p. 158 (without dates, but with photo)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland has a different date of death 2002.
  2. ↑ 1989/1990 Klap op de Vuurpijl (video)
  3. ↑ Sweet and hot Music - Nederlandse damesorkesten uit de jaren '30 (Video)
personal data
SURNAME Zelfde, Annie van't
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz saxophonist, pianist and clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2000
Place of death Rotterdam