Name          : René Cardynaals

Instrument: Sousaphone

It was about 1985 René joined the “Original Stöb Jazz Band” playing traditional Jazz. Before that time he played in a marching harmony in his neighbourhood. He still plays in 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 he was the initiator to organise a brass band by himself in Maastricht. He formed the “King Zulu Brass Band” and was their first leader.
René is the vocalist in wild tunes like, Iko Iko and Jambalaya.

 

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