After a livestream edition in 2020 and a small edition in 2021, Red Light Jazz returns to the festival calendar this year in all its glory! In the weekend from 3 to 5 June, the unique (live) jazz tradition and culture of the historic center of Amsterdam will be revived with a regal number of performances, which are largely free to attend. The legendary Kid Dynamite is a central figure in this and how fitting it is that saxophonists have a prominent place in the programming in the upcoming edition.
The saxophonists in the line-up this year include Yuri Honing, Gideon Tazelaar, Lucas Santana, Kika Sprangers, Efraïm Trujillo, Tineke Postma, Benjamin Herman, Jasper Blom and of course Hans Dulfer.
Neighborhood legend Kid Dynamite will be honored with a tribute concert at Café Casablanca and with a screening of a film/documentary ‘Kid Dynamite, Surinaamse Swing op de Zeedijk’ by Hans Hylkema in the adjacent Theater Mascini.
The old city center of Amsterdam has a jazz culture since the 1930s. American sailors used to bring jazz records with them when traveling and that is how Amsterdam became acquainted with jazz. In the 1940s and 1950s, a lively jazz scene arose in the area around Zeedijk and Nieuwmarkt. Lodewijk Rudolf Arthur Parisius alias Kid Dynamite was a prominent guest. Jazzcafé Casablanca on the Zeedijk was his ‘domicile’. He died in a car accident in 1963. He can be considered one of the patriarchs of the Surinamese jazz scene in the Netherlands. In 2015 Fra Fra Sound already paid a musical tribute to Kid Dynamite during Red Light Jazz.
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