Boy Edgar

Boy's Big Band: Return

by Jack Bowers
July 24, 2016

In the decade spanning 1960-70, composer / saxophonist Boy Edgar (1915-1980) led one of The Netherlands' most acclaimed and adventurous big bands, a contemporary of the massive Metropole Orchestra and precursor of the renowned Dutch Jazz Orchestra. Return consists of nine never-before-released concert performances recorded during the band's heyday in 1965-66 including the first recording of Theo Loevendie's forward-looking “Finch Eye." To augment the band's cadre of esteemed Dutch musicians (alto saxophonist Piet Noordijk, tenor Toon van Vliet, bass trombonist ...