Professor and Friends is not unknown to the Red Light Jazz audience. The formation plays a wide repertoire from French chanson, Brazilian bossa nova, Argentinian tango and Mexican bolero to Vivaldi, Rachmaninov and the American Song Book.

The jazz ensemble led by professor Cees Hamelink has been around for 7 years and has performed in Colombia, Portugal and Canada in addition to the Netherlands. They have produced 6 CDs and regularly play in Brasserie Kapitein Zeppos.

Previously, Professor & Friends had the Amsterdam Academic Club (AAC) on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal as its home base, until the board of the University of Amsterdam decided to put an end to all jazz performances in their Academic Club in 2022.

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