![]() ![]() During both visits to the Big Apple the band successfully played the NY club circuit, an exceptional feat for a Dutch ensemble. Their second New York album Kickin’ in the Front Window followed in 1993. In 1992 The Houdini’s, in their new line-up with bassist Marius Beets and drummer Bram Wijland, cross the ocean to record Headlines in the temple of jazz: Rudy van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs. Subsequently the band released the debut album Live at the Paradox, an overpowering example of the group’s energy and creative power. Back in Holland The Houdini’s start gigging and recording in the original line-up consisting of alto saxophonist Rolf Delfos, tenor saxophonist Boris Vanderlek, trumpeter Angelo Verploegen, pianist Erwin Hoorweg, double bass player Stefan Lievestro and drummer Pieter Bast. It was Gert-Jan Blom – nowadays artistic producer of the renowned Metropole Orchestra – who ‘invented’ the hard bop sextet for the 1987 Canada tour of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Festival. ![]() The Houdini’s played hard bop as if they had invented the genre – and they still do so. Re-evaluating that first album and their sophomore effort Headlines, the 21st century jazz buff really gets a blast from the past. The authoritative American jazz magazine Down- Beat even proclaimed them ‘equals of the young jazzers of New York’, words of praise summing up their capabilities rather nicely. Headlines - that’s what the Dutch hard bop sextet The Houdini’s made in the national and international jazz press after having played the prestigious 1989 North Sea Jazz Festival.
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