Episode #4: Michael Varekamp. A podcast about Jazz with colourful guests and swinging music by Ben van den Dungen
Michael Varekamp
Art Blakey once said: “jazz has to be danceable and has to have the blues”. Dancing and the blues is a podcast about jazz. Jazz musicians Ben van den Dungen, Tom Ridderbeekx and Thijs Nissen receive colourful guests with strong stories, probing conversations and a large dose of swinging music. A look behind the scenes of the fine fleur of the (inter)national jazz top, with live performances from our studio!
Michael Varekamp was 10 years old when he found a Louis Armstrong record in his father’s record cabinet. A decade later, he graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with honours. Since then, he has performed all over the world and toured with Dutch Swing College Band, Scott Hamilton and Louis van Dijk, among others. He has been praised abroad as well. He received the Kobe Award in Japan and was the only European to work with Jazzmobile Inc. in New York. He has performed at prominent venues around the world like Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Royal Concertgebouw. Michael recently performed with Branford Marsalis.
Quotes:
‘Michael Varekamp has an astonishing sound and beautiful phrasing to the honour and glory of jazz’ -Le Monde, Paris
‘A dazzling lexicon of Jazz Trumpet playing’ -Wales Evening Post
‘Varekamp plays as boundlessly as Armstrong’ -NRC Handelsblad
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