The Best of Big Band Swing with the Jack Million Band in Antwerp

This week we received notice of a Best of The Big Band Swing concert...it isn't in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Chicago...it is in Europe, in the Belgium city of Antwerp. On Feb.19th, the 3 pm concert will feature one of Europe's finest big bands...The Jack Million Band.

The Bandleader Jack Coenen promises a varied program of big band hits from Jimmy Lunceford, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Billy May, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Les Brown and others.

The Jack Million Band members are mostly from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. 

Also, from Belgium they will present an Andrews Sisters tribute trio....The Jacquelines with Eva Buchmann, Iris Berardocco, Sara Raes (Photo).

The ladies pay tribute to the Andrews Sisters' vocal swing of the 1940's throughout Belgium and The Netherlands. 

All the members of the Jack Million band are highly trained musicians having met during their studies at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.

Also, on the program are several guest soloists; Bernard Berkhout from the Netherlands. Bernard is a world class swing clarinet player who plays in the style of his big band hero Benny Goodman. From the US is drummer Brooks Tegler who plays in the style of Gene Krupa. From the Netherlands is Robert Veen, who is very popular on the traditional Jazz and Swing scene in Europe having created and worked with several other big bands. He plays tribute to one of his heroes Sidney Bechet.

The venue is the Theater De Roma, Turnhoutsebaan 286, 2140 Borgerhout, in Antwerp, Belgium on Feb. 19, 2012, from 3pm.
To book visit:  http://www.deroma.be/

TICKETBALIE De Roma:+32 - 3 292 97 40
Turnhoutsebaan 327 2140 Borgerhout, Belgium
opening hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-12:30 and 13:30-17:00

View the two videos  1. Ray Eberle's daughter Jan and The Jack Million Band.

                  2.  "At Last" with Ellen Blieck and Geralt van Gemert.