Huub Janssen

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Hubertus Cornelis Petrus "Huub" Janssen (* 16th January 1937 in 's-Hertogenbosch , † 24. January 2008 in Eindhoven ) was a Dutch jazz - drummer .

Career

Janssen was introduced to music by his father at the age of four. His father was a street musician and played the accordion; he performed with him as a teenager. At 19, Huub Janssen got into the Big Band of Huub Mus one. At the age of 20 Janssen played in Ad van de Geins Cocktail Trio and took part in the TV show Nieuwe Oogst ; this was a program for young talent in the Netherlands. Through this appearance he got an engagement with Tom Manders (Dorus), a comedian known in the Netherlands. In the further course of his career Janssen played as a studio musician with Dutch musicians and with Jan Gorissen in the radio program Melodieën Express .

In 1967 he joined the Dutch Swing College Band as a drummer . With this band he recorded about 35 records and CDs. Janssen traveled around the world with the Dutch Swing College Band until the end of 1990, playing concerts, radio recordings and TV shows. In the 1970s and 1980s he was part of the Flashback Quartet with college band colleagues Bob Kaper , Marcel Hendricks and Henk Bosch van Drakestein , with whom an album with the French vibraphonist Dany Doriz was created in 1979 .

In 1985 Janssen founded the Amazing Jazz Band , of which he was the band leader. The band played mainly traditional jazz with a line-up of between three and seven musicians, who were initially almost all members of the Revival Jazz Band . The (changing) cast included a .: Cees van den Heuvel (trumpet & vocals), Bas van Gestel (trombone & vocals), Antoine drums (saxophone), Richard Endlich (banjo), Jos van Bueren (bass), Frans Bouwmeester (bass), Eelco van Velzen (Trombone), Marco Kuipers (clarinet) and other musicians. The regular cast included Cess van den Heuvel, Bas van Gesetel, Richard Endlich and Jos van Bueren. With this band he released a first album in 1987, followed by Huub Janssen Meets Dick Huis (1990).

He also performed with other musicians. In the course of his life, Huub Janssen played with numerous jazz greats such as B. Teddy Wilson , Rod Mason , Billy Butterfield , Lillian Boutté , Joe Venuti , Greetje Kauffeld , Chris Barber , Bob Wilber , Peanuts Hucko , Bud Freeman , Scott Hamilton , Ruby Braff , Warren Vaché , Acker Bilk , Milt Jackson , Kenny Ball , Charly Antolini , Gregor Beck and numerous other jazz musicians. Between 1966 and 2000 he was involved in 146 recordings of records and CDs.

Awards

  • With the Dutch Swing College Band, Huub received the Export Award in 1990 and the Special Appreciation Bird Award in 1994.
  • He himself received u. a. 1993 the Duke of Duketown Award and was honored on October 12, 2006 for special achievements by the Queen of the Netherlands with the Order of Orange-Nassau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the Amazing Jazzband ( English )
  2. ↑ With a different line-up, the album Huub Janssen 50th Anniversary Vol. 1: Huub Janssen And His Amazing Jazz Band was recorded in 2000 . See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, November 12, 2013)
  3. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, November 12, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Janssen, Huub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janssen, Hubertus Cornelis Petrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH 's-Hertogenbosch
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2008
Place of death Eindhoven