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Hans Dulfer
12+ albums
jazzfunknetherlandsfree jazzdutch
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Hans Dulfer (born 28 May 1940 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a tenor saxophone player of global fame and a giant of Dutch jazz. He touched his first tenor saxophone in the 1950s, inspired by notorious big sound tenor players like Ike Quebec, Big Jay McNeeley and Coleman Hawkins, their stage acts the pure and powerful examples of the kind of showmanship Dulfer adored and adopted for himself. Aged 17, Dulfer embarked on a musical career that stretches itself to this very day. Jazz was his thing, not the dull cocktail jazz popular in The Netherlands at the time, but its grassroots incarnation of social comment in music. This, as Dulfer likes to spell out, is not limited to a specific historical period: it is an internal and eternal truth in jazz. Along the way Dulfer picked up just about anything that was musically hip (even tuning in to punk in the 1970s, only to find out that he had been a punk at heart all his life). Dulfer started out his professional career in the jazz group of Clous van Mechelen. His recording career under his own name took off in 1970 and 1971, when he recorded three albums with the Surinamese group Ritmo Natural. The third of these albums, El Saxofón (1971), was the first LP credited to Hans Dulfer alone. Dulfer formed and played with many different bands over the years, including Heavy Soul Inc., Reflud ('Dulfer' spelled backwards) and Future Groove Express, to name but a few.These outfits were notorious in clubland. Many top musicians in their
