Remco Keijzer

The Dutch Tenors

**PLS NOTE: DOORS OPEN AT 9PM FOR A 9.30PM SHOWTIME**

**(SHOW DURATION IS 9.30PM-11.30PM)**

  

**Remco Keijzer Quartet featuring** 

**Bernard Van Rossum ‘The Dutch Tenors’**

  

Some gigs happen because everyone’s available on the same night. This one happened because two tenor players somehow ended up studying with the same Amsterdam teachers, disappearing into different corners of the musical world for a decade, and then finally landing on the same bandstand in Melbourne.

  

On Friday August 7 at 9:30pm, Paris Cat Jazz Club hosts The Dutch Tenors — a one-off meeting between the Remco Keijzer Quartet and acclaimed Dutch saxophonist/composer Bernard van Rossum.

  

Keijzer, known to Australian audiences through performances with his own groups but also the greats like. Michael Bublé, Lauryn Hill, The Temptations, Hugh Jackman and countless theatre productions, has quietly become one of Melbourne’s most formidable saxophonists — equally capable of bringing fire, lyricism and complete chaos to the same solo, sometimes within a single chorus.

  

Featured guest Bernard van Rossum arrives in Australia and New Zealand for the first time following years of acclaim across Europe as a saxophonist, composer and leader of the award-winning BvR Flamenco Big Band. Born in Spain to Dutch and English parents, educated in Barcelona, Edinburgh and Amsterdam, van Rossum’s music pulls from flamenco, modern jazz and European orchestral writing while still swinging hard enough to make everybody nervous in the best possible way.

Despite studying with the same legendary Amsterdam Conservatory teachers — including Jasper Blom and Ferdinand Povel — Keijzer and van Rossum have never actually shared a bandstand. Until now.

  

Backing them is a quartet featuring some of Melbourne’s heaviest improvisers: **Darryn Farruggia on drums, Chris Hale on electric bass and Dan Mougerman on piano** — musicians whose combined resumés would take longer to read than most jazz sets.

  

The music for this concert was built specifically for this lineup and this meeting. Expect original compositions, rearranged obscurities, unexpected turns and repertoire that almost certainly won’t be heard anywhere else in Australia. No safe choices. No jazz museum pieces. Just five musicians taking advantage of the fact that they happen to be in the same room at the same time.

  

**_One night. One band. No repeat performance._**

**_Exactly how jazz is supposed to work._**

  

  

**Genre - Jazz**

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Remco Keijzer Quartet featuring Bernard Van Rossum ‘The Dutch Tenors’

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