Piet van Dijk
Piet van Dijk
Genres: swing, jazz
Crytzer's Blue Rhythm Band
About Piet van Dijk
Piet van Dijk (Nijmegen , December 8th 1916 - Amsterdam , June 4th 1978) was a Dutch jazz - tenor, alto saxophonist , violinist and big-band leader. He was primarily known for his popular dance orchestras, Orkest Piet Van Dijk, which performed in the Netherlands and abroad but which made few label recordings. Piet van Dijk began at local amateur orchestras, and then (semi-) professional orchestras, whom he also toured with abroad, particularly to Switzerland . He then played as a professional musician in the band of the Surinamese trumpeter Mike Hidalgo , a trio of Willy van der Casteel, the orchestra of the Surinamese singer Johannes Gerold and a group led by Surinamese trumpeter, Walter Rens . He moved onto performing with smaller ensembles, including one with the American pianist Freddy Johnson . One of the venues where they played was the Negro Palace in Amsterdam . In 1940 Piet van Dijk's group comprised of Thijs Levendig (trumpet), Nico de Rooij (piano) Theo Koppes (drums, guitar). They mainly performed at the Amsterdam Lido and for radio broadcasts. Later, the band underwent some personnel changes were also occur in variety and revue programs, with clowns, singers and accordionists, until the summer of 1944. In 1947, as part of the Dutch Radio Dance Orchestra, he worked for a time in The Hague, including with bassist Tom Dissevelt , then toured around Spain and Portugal . 1947 saw Rita Reys became the singer of his band, and in 1948, during a long stay in Tangier, Rita Heys married Wessel Ilcken, his band's drummer. Mid 1951 the band played in Groningen (but without Reys and Ilcken who had since left), and then the dance band spent eight years working in Germany, mainly in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From September 1960 the band played again in the Netherlands, Rotterdam and The Hague and in 1961 in the nearby coastal resort of Scheveningen.
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