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Topic: Wout Steenhuis |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 9:32 am |
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| You can find many of his LPs on blogspots for dload, but most of his latter output gets too icky with the accompaniment, but he was a good player. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Peter den Hartogh
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 12:14 pm
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He was a wonderful steel/Hawaiian guitar player and electric guitar player.
From Holland he was a member of the Dutch Resistance Movement in the 2nd World War,
who escaped a concentration camp on the way to his execution.
During this time he was also a founder member of the Dutch Swing College Band, playing American "dixieland" jazz.
As this music was forbidden by the German occupiers and during the German "razzias" (raids) the band could quickly switch to Hawaiian music and thus escape imprisonment.
He later joined his father's factory in Margate, England as a business partner and made his first commercial recording in 1963.
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 12:23 pm
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| I knew jazz was banned, or at least there were hard rules about how it should be played under the Reich, but how interesting that Hawaiian music was not proscribed this way! Thanks for the info Peter! |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 1:38 pm
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| Peter, thanks so much for filling in the human, personal side of the musician. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 6:04 pm
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| He was a decent player alright, and not choppy like a lot of players I hear on youtube these days. |
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 8:08 pm
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| Very exuberant style - I hear a lot of joy there. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 18 Jan 2012 10:21 pm
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| It may not apply to this particular recording...(difficult to know), but Wout did most of his later recordings playing ALL the instruments,(multi-trac). He was a very good musician, was also fluent in 4 languages. I think he moved to England somewhere around 1948 where he gained tremendous fame. As I recall, he died in the summer of 1985. |
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Peter den Hartogh
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Cape Town, South Africa
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