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Dancing and the Blues

sun 11 jul 2021 00:00 hrs
Composers: John Marsh | Peter Beets

A podcast about Jazz with colorful guests and swinging music by Ben van den Dungen

Episode #8: Simon Rigter (Part 1). A podcast about jazz with colourful quests and swinging music from Ben van den Dungen.

Simon Rigter

 

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 epitome of the (inter)national jazz top, with live performances from our studio!

Simon Rigter (Leiden, 1973) grew up in a musical environment as the son of saxophonist Bob Rigter.

Ruud Breuls/Simon Rigter Quintet is one of Simon’s musical initiatives. Jazz journalist Bert Jansma wrote about this band: “The music of this quintet is jazz music of all times. Not pretentious and not pigeonholed, but 100% pure jazz. Five musicians who come together for one simple reason: to make jazz music. Recently the CD Rise and Shine was released by the jazz label Challenge.

He is also a permanent member of The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, The Reeds and Saxology.

He has performed with many international jazz musicians, including George Coleman, Elvin Jones, Joe Cohn, Jim Rotondi, Nancy Marano and Alvin Queen. He has toured internationally in China, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, India, Israel, Jamaica and Japan.

Simon has recorded CDs with The Dutch Jazz Orchestra, The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, The Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, The Reeds, Curtis Fuller, Slide Hampton, John Marshall, Cees Slinger, Victor Kaihatu and Peter Beets.

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