The Limehouse Seven

The Limehouse Seven was founded in 1965 in Haarlem, a city in the western part of The Netherlands, not too far away from Amsterdam. They were a rising star in the traditional jazz scene in The Netherlands. The music they played differed from the regular dixieland jazz bands - they concentrated on the music as played by the black jazz bands during the 1920s, the music of legendary players like Joe King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Williams and Fletcher Henderson. They started as an ordinary dixieland band, but changed their style due to new members like Jacques Van Ham, Remco van der Gugten and Fred Horn who brought a new spirit into the group that became popular through festivals, like the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival, a more modern jazz event, where they won a second price; the 1969 Hammerfeld Jazz Festival in Roermond and a first price at the Oude Stijl Jazz Festival in Breda in 1972. All those festivals are well known in The Netherlands. After summer of 1973, they changed their name to Limehouse Jazzband. Band members: Jacques Van Ham, trombone. Remco Van Der Gugten, alto and tenor sax, clarinet. Fred Horn, cornet and washboard. Ton Van Brussel, cornet. Henk De Roos, banjo. Peter Rijkhoff, piano. Piet Peeperkorn, tuba.