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Bob Rigter, jazz musician, novelist
The etymology of the word JAZZ
Bob Rigter
welcomes invitations to play jazz and/or to read / discuss / lecture on his
literary work.
Please e-mail: info@bobrigter.com
The Bob Rigter Quartet – LOVE YOU MADLY
Five on the Rigter Scale (the quintet which Bob Rigter leads with his son Simon, who also plays tenor sax)
Simon
Rigter (played with
Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Slide Hampton, Elvin Jones, Alvin Queen. Referred to by
Down Beat (Sept.
’98) as a ‘strong tenor saxist’)
Ben
Webster’s last concert. Detailed
information and unique photographs.
(Sept. 6, 1973 in Leiden. Ben insisted Bob play the blues on his
instrument, then made his final speech:
‘Son, you are young and growing, and I
am old and going. So have your fun while you can.’
The next day Ben was
hospitalised in Amsterdam, where he died on Sept. 20, the day Simon
Rigter was born.)
Jazz
in de Oostzee (1995) ISBN 90-5526-039-8. (Welcomed by the
press as the first Dutch jazz novel: ‘This
sure ain’t no novel for no
squares, man.’ (Martin Schouten in De Volkskrant))
Langarm
(1999) ISBN 90-5689-065-4. (Nominated for a
prestigious Dutch/Belgian literary prize: De ECI-prijs voor
Schrijvers van Nu
2001.)
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Five on the Rigter Scale - Blues fragment (RealAudio)
Bob Rigter Quartet - Fragment of Love You
Madly (RealAudio)
Bob Rigter Quartet - Fragment of Everything
Happens To Me (RealAudio)
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