Biografie van Hal Singer. (tenor sax )

Biografie van HAL SINGER. ( tenorsax )Harold (Hal) Singer was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1919. A talented young musician, he could play the violin, piano, and especially the reed instruments. he soon found that he preferred the tenor saxophone most of all. He quit college at Hampton Institute in Virginia to go out on the road as a musician with a territory band led by Terrence Holder. This led to other local bands such as Ernie Fields, Ed Christian, and Nat Towles. In 1942 while a member of the band of Lloyd Hunter, Singer stayed in Kansas City and became part of that city's musical scene. He was part of the Tommy Douglas band until he joined the great K.C. band of Jay McShann. Singer then moved to New York and spent the mid forties with the bands of Earl Bostic, Big Sid Catlett, Don Byas, and Roy Eldridge





Theo Mertens is veruit de bekendste trompettist van de Benelux. Hij speelde vanaf zijn 17de bij de Antwerpse Filharmonie en soleerde in Denemarken, Zweden, Parijs,... Tijdens The Night of The Proms was hij twee keer te gast als solist. 
















