Monty Alexander-Triple Treat-Laren: 6.Detour Ahead

Monty Alexander piano
Herb Ellis guitar
Ray Brown bass
Nick Vollebregt's Jazzcafé
Laren, The Neherlands 1988

Straighten Up And Fly Right
It Might As Well Be Spring
Flintstones
Just Can't See For Looking
Love For Sale
Detour Ahead (This Track)
Small Fry
Estate
Seven Come Eleven

The small Dutch village Laren has a long jazz tradition, Coleman Hawkins played already in 1935 in the former Casino of hotel Hamdorff. More recent jazzpodia are the former Boerenhofstede, the Singer Museum and Nick Vollebregt's Jazzcafe. A Dutch public broadcasting organisation (TROS) began its radio jazz concerts in 1973 under the name SESJUN. For the first five years it was broadcasted from the Boerenhofstede in Laren, later Nick Vollebregt's Jazzcafe became the permanent spot for a first class series of concerts. With producer Dick de Winter and Cees Schrama as broadcaster the program became very popular. Hundreds of famous musicians played on the sessions: besides Dutch and European jazz musicians Toots Thielemans, Monty Alexander, Bill Evans, Wynton Marsalis, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Dexter Gordon, Sarah Vaughn, Jimmy Smith, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard and Johua Redman. Since 1982, a broad selection of these radio programs has been broadcasted by more than 200 public radio stations in the USA and Canada.