Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg, with Svend Asmussen (2016-2017) and others.
Danish violinist and – clownish – singer Svend Asmussen (100 was called ‘The Fiddling Viking,’ Also in the death gallery is ‘The First Lady of Jazz Piano’, Barbara Carroll (92). Furthermore, former greengrocer turned star of the revue, Kees Pruis with a beautiful ballad on a down on his luck colonial, the pianist who often used phone books to be able to reach the keys, Erroll Garner, and saxophone player Piet van Dijk’s jazz orchestra, comedian Stan Freberg with a memorable parody of the 1954 hit ‘Sh-boom’ by the Crew Cuts, in which mumbling actor Marlon Brandon is brutally mocked. Also: the first version of a song that a railway commercial made popular again: ‘I will wait for for’, and the ‘Queen of the Blues,’ Dinah Washington
