terça-feira, 17 de setembro de 2013

*. Ronald Snijders .*

Album: Black Straight Music (1981)
Genre: Jazz Fusion (Soul/Funk/Latin Jazz)  /  Suriname

Taken from Black Straight Music (1981) Ronald Snijders is considered to be the most swinging flutist in the Netherlands (Jazz magazine Jazz nu), and the inventor of African Surinam kawinajazz. He was born in Paramaribo, Suriname in 1951 and started to play the flute at the age of seven, influenced by his professionally fluteplaying father. In his youth he also practised guitar, sax, some piano and percussion, playing popular music, classical music, Brazilian music plus jazz. In september of 1970 he settled in Delft, the Netherlands to study civil engineering, but about five years later he was a professional selftaught musician. Among his awards shines the Press prize at the prestigious NOS jazzconcours of 1973 in Laren, won with a flute solo. The legendary bandleader Boy Edgar who was presiding the jury said: Ronald Snijders has extreme skill and creativity. (www.zoominfo.com)

RATING:  7.75 / 10

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