Dutch Swing College Band

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The Dutch Swing College Band is a traditional Dixieland band founded on 5 May 1945 by the clarinettist and saxophonist Peter Schilperoort. The group was very successful in the Netherlands and soon gained an international audience too. The line-up changed over the years, with, among others, Huub Janssen on drums, Kees van Dorser on trumpet, Dim Kesber on saxophone, Jan Morks on clarinet, Oscar Klein on trumpet and Dick Kaart on trombone. Schilperoort led the band for more than forty-five years, although in 1955 he took a five-year break for a career as an engineer. On 1 January 1960 he officially returned.

Music and breakthrough

In 1976 the band provided the interval act of the Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from The Hague. After Schilperoort's death in 1990, Bob Kaper, a member since 1967, took over the leadership. The band still tours a great deal, especially in Europe and Scandinavia, and still records.

Influence

The music is Dixieland: the jazz style from New Orleans, in which trumpet, clarinet and trombone each play a line of their own at the same time above a driving rhythm section of banjo or guitar, bass and drums. The Dutch Swing College Band showed that this music could have a large audience outside America too. The Dutch jazz audience of the post-war years found a group of its own in the band.

Listening

• 
  Way Down Yonder in New Orleans · Dutch Swing College Band, 1960

Discography

Studio albums

• 1951Jazz-Party
• 1954Gems of Jazz No. 2
• 1956Jazz at the Seaport
• 1956Meet Mrs. Jazz
• 1956The Band’s Best
• 1960Jazz Classics
• 1961Party Favourites
• 1963Jazz Sir
• 1966Tribute to Louis Armstrong
• 1967The Dutch Swing College Band
• 1968When the Swing Comes Marching In
• 1972The Dutch Swing College Band & Teddy Wilson
• 1973Swing That Music
• 1974Dutch Swing College Band and Johnny Meyer
• 1977The Dutch Swing College Band featuring Famous American Jazz Giants
• 1982Digital Dutch
• 1983Digital Dixie
• 1990Back in Time (1990-1945)
• 1990Dutch Swing College Band 196
• 1993The Joint Is Jumpin’!
• 1995Boys Meet Girls
• 1995Swinging Favourites of ’45
• 1996That’s a Plenty: The Best in Dixieland
• 1997Makin' Whoopee!
• 1999Dutch Swing College at The “Sport Palast”, Berlin (Complete Concert)
• 2002Meets Teddy Wilson
• 2003The Real Thing
• 2005The Old Fashioned Way
• ?DSC Stereo Special!
• ?Jazz Classics
• ?Johnny Meijer & Dutch Swing College Band
• ?New Orleans Jazz

Mentioned in other articles

• Jazz in the Netherlands GenreAfter the Liberation, the Dutch Swing College Band, founded in 1945, played traditional jazz.

See also

• Jazz in the Netherlands