Louis van Dyke
( Naar de Nederlandse vertaling.)
A few weeks ago I found the CBS LP What Now, My Love by the Louis van Dyke Trio. Louis van Dyke, in fact his surname was van Dijk, but that didn't look English enough I guess, made this LP March / April 1966 with his trio featuring himself at the piano, Jacques Schols bass and John Engels at the drums. It was his second album. In 1961 he had won the Loosdrecht Jazz concours with his trio and made his first album, titled Trio / Quartet in June 1964. In the quartet recordings Carl Schulze, the vibraphone player, was added. He won with this LP an Edison Award, one of the most important awards in the Dutch amusement world.
He was educated as a classical piano-player and like so many other jazz musicans he became fascinated by the instrument in church. His father was sexton in the Prinsessekerk in Amsterdam. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and became interested in jazz. For young jazz musicians the Loosdrecht festival was a usefull leg to success. I found this LP in a junk shop in my small village Heinkenszand (southwest part of The Netherlands) between BZN and Alle Dertien Goed ( = All Thirteen Tracks Okay - How did they come up with that ! ) and, to be honest, it seems rather easy to find LPs of this Dutch piano player. I'm glad it is a real jazz recording without a bunch of strings - used in those days to popularize Jazz for the General Public. He was very popular in the 1960s up to 1980s and as a kid I remember him as a skilled piano player. In fact, as a kid, Louis van Dyke and Pim Jacobs where piano players that played jazz. And jazz fascinated me !!
A few weeks ago I found the CBS LP What Now, My Love by the Louis van Dyke Trio. Louis van Dyke, in fact his surname was van Dijk, but that didn't look English enough I guess, made this LP March / April 1966 with his trio featuring himself at the piano, Jacques Schols bass and John Engels at the drums. It was his second album. In 1961 he had won the Loosdrecht Jazz concours with his trio and made his first album, titled Trio / Quartet in June 1964. In the quartet recordings Carl Schulze, the vibraphone player, was added. He won with this LP an Edison Award, one of the most important awards in the Dutch amusement world.
He was educated as a classical piano-player and like so many other jazz musicans he became fascinated by the instrument in church. His father was sexton in the Prinsessekerk in Amsterdam. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and became interested in jazz. For young jazz musicians the Loosdrecht festival was a usefull leg to success. I found this LP in a junk shop in my small village Heinkenszand (southwest part of The Netherlands) between BZN and Alle Dertien Goed ( = All Thirteen Tracks Okay - How did they come up with that ! ) and, to be honest, it seems rather easy to find LPs of this Dutch piano player. I'm glad it is a real jazz recording without a bunch of strings - used in those days to popularize Jazz for the General Public. He was very popular in the 1960s up to 1980s and as a kid I remember him as a skilled piano player. In fact, as a kid, Louis van Dyke and Pim Jacobs where piano players that played jazz. And jazz fascinated me !!
Louis van Dyke is not a pure jazz musician. Like so many musicans he couldn't find a living in playing jazz music only, so he accompanied great artistst like Astrud Gilberto, Coretta KIng, Salena Jones, Liesbeth List, Ann Burton and Herman van Veen. He became famous as the accompanist of Ramses Shaffy, a popular singer in the Netherlands. He often played duets with other piano players like Pim Jacobs, Daniel Wayenberg, Jules De Corte and Pieter van Vollenhoven, the jazz-piano-playing husband of Princess Margriet, the sister of our queen Beatrix.
I found a recent fragment in which you can hear Louis van Dijk plays a blues dedicated to Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven, his duo-partner in their piano duets, labeled as Gevleugelde Vrienden. (A vleugel is the Dutch word for a grand-piano)
I found a recent fragment in which you can hear Louis van Dijk plays a blues dedicated to Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven, his duo-partner in their piano duets, labeled as Gevleugelde Vrienden. (A vleugel is the Dutch word for a grand-piano)
- rita reys-louis van dyke
- trio louis van dyke/a whiter shade of pale
- trio louis van dyke/bluesette
- trio louis van dyke-kwartet pim jacobs/back to back
- trio louis van dyke/what now, my love
- i only have eyes for you / hallelujah = phil ohman-victor arden o
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
PLAYLIST
john coltrane/the atlantic records - 1 (bags & trane) (giant steps) = hank mobley/turnaround = hal gaylor-walter norris-billy bean trio/the trio = lee konitz/palo alto = art blakey jazz messengers/indestructible = charlie parker/bird (soundtrack) = ladd's black aces-original memphis five-wingy manone o/compilation ( cassette) = carl kress-tony mottola-eddie lang/guitar compilation (cassette) = josephine baker/breezin along = oscar aleman/odeon recordings vol. 4Een paar weken geleden vond ik in het tweedekanswinkeltje bij ons op het dorp de CBS LP What Now, My Love door het Louis van Dyke Trio. Louis van Dyke, eigenlijk is zijn achternaam van Dijk, maar dat klinkt niet Engels genoeg, nam deze plaat op in maart - april 1966 met zijn trio bestaande uit hemzelf op piano, Jacques Schols op bas en John Engels op drums. Het is hun tweede plaat. In 1961 wonnen ze het jazzconcours op het Loosdrecht Jazzfestival en maakten ze hun eerste plaat, getiteld Trio / Quartet. In het kwartet werd Carl Schulze, de vibrafonist, toegevoegd. Met deze plaat won Louis van Dyke een Edison, de meest prestigieuze prijs in het Nederlandse amusement. Hij heeft een opleiding gehad als klassiek pianist en zo als zoveel jazzpianisten ligt de fascinatie voor het instrument in de kerk. Zijn vader was koster van de Prinsessekerk in Amsterdam. Hij studeerde piano aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en raakte geinteresseerd in de jazz. Voor jonge jazzmusici was het Loosdrecht Jazz Festival in die tijd een opstapje naar succes. Ik vond deze LP van Louis van Dyke in een bak met BZN en Alle Dertien Goed ( wie verzint zo iets !! ) en je komt zijn naam nogal eens tegen. Ik was al blij te ontdekken dat er geen woud met stijkers toegevoegd was; een manier in die tijd om jazzmuziek voor het Grote Publiek aantrekkelijker te maken. Louis van Dyke was erg populair tusen 1960 en 1990 en als kind herinner ik me het gemak waarmee hij piano speelde en samen met Pim Jacobs, die andere pianist, waren ze voor mij echte jazzpianisten. En Jazz fascineerde me.
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
PLAYLIST
john coltrane/the atlantic records - 1 (bags & trane) (giant steps) = hank mobley/turnaround = hal gaylor-walter norris-billy bean trio/the trio = lee konitz/palo alto = art blakey jazz messengers/indestructible = charlie parker/bird (soundtrack) = ladd's black aces-original memphis five-wingy manone o/compilation ( cassette) = carl kress-tony mottola-eddie lang/guitar compilation (cassette) = josephine baker/breezin along = oscar aleman/odeon recordings vol. 4
Louis van Dyke is geen pure jazzmusicus. Zoals zoveel jazzmuzikanten kon hij niet van de jazz leven en moest hij dus zijn spel verbreden. Hij was, behalve een groot klassiek vertolker, ook begeleider van artiesten als Astrud Gilberto, Coretta King, Salena Jones, Liesbeth List, Ann Burton en Herman van Veen. Hij kreeg bekendheid voor zijn begeleiding van Ramses Shaffy. Hij speelde vaak duetten met andere pianisten, zoals natuurlijk Pim Jacobs, Daniel Wayenberg, Jules De Corte en Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven, de echtgenoot van prinses Margriet.
Ik vond een fragment, niet zo lang geleden opgenomen, waarin Louis van Dijk een muzikaal portret maakt van Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven en op hem een blues improviseert. Samen met Pim Jacobs en Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven vormden ze jaren De Gevleugelde Vrienden; na de dood van Pim traden ze nog vaak samen op.
Platen van Louis van Dyke in mijn verzameling:
- rita reys-louis van dyke
- trio louis van dyke/a whiter shade of pale
- trio louis van dyke/bluesette
- trio louis van dyke-kwartet pim jacobs/back to back
- trio louis van dyke-pim jacobs
- i only have eyes for you / hallelujah = phil ohman-victor arden o
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
SPEELLIJST
john coltrane/the atlantic records - 1 (bags & trane) (giant steps) = hank mobley/turnaround = hal gaylor-walter norris-billy bean trio/the trio = lee konitz/palo alto = art blakey jazz messengers/indestructible = charlie parker/bird (soundtrack) = ladd's black aces-original memphis five-wingy manone o/compilation ( cassette) = carl kress-tony mottola-eddie lang/guitar compilation (cassette) = josephine baker/breezin along = oscar aleman/odeon recordings vol. 4
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2 Comments:
Thanks for all this information. I have an album of Louis van Dijk called "Louis Van Dyke Plays Lennon - McCartney" which has 9 Beatles tracks played on the Flentrop Organ in the Netherlands Reformed Church at Loenen (aan de Vecht), Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1970. It's a wonderful album. Louis is a wonderful musician and I was delighted to read more information about him on your very informative blog. Thank you ever so much...P
I was the manager of the Indonesia Petroleum Club in the 1970s and we had the privilege of hosting the Louis Van Dijk trio for a week for a gig there. I still play the albums from then including the one where Louis plays Beatles songs on cathedral organs. Love the albums. How can I contact Louis?
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