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 Name : Hugo
Kuijpers
Instrument: Cornet
In 1982
he bought his first trumpet to play at mardi gras time, in what we call in
Maastricht a
“zaate herremenie”.
After he visited the Jazz festival in Maastricht in 1984, he and his friend
a trombone player, formed the “Original Stöb Jazz Band” in 1985, playing traditional Jazz.
He
still plays and leads that jazz band, that was renamed in the "New Orleans
Dusty Duds" and after some changes is nowadays called the “Gumbo Jazzband”.
After visiting the Ascona Jazz Festival in 1986 and hearing
Doc Paulin’s en Harold Dejan’s Brass Bands René ask him to play in
Maastricht's the first brass band, the “King Zulu
Brass Band”.
In 1997 he was one of the formers of the Hurricane Brassband and become
their leader until today.
He never, regular, played in a band that not played
traditional jazz. Hugo
also
takes
some vocals.
Do you have some nice pictures of this "hurricane" please send them to us
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