The Golden River City Jazz Band is a (New Orleans jazz

New Orleans Jazz

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) band founded in 1970 in Kortrijk

Kortrijk

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, Belgium

Belgium

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 by clarinet

Clarinet

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tist Jean-Jacques Pieters. The band is most noted for performances at at the annual Kortrijk Golden River City Jazz Festival

Golden River City Jazz Festival

Annual Music festival in Kortrijk, Belgium, on the first weekend in september coinsiding with the local 'september' Braderie, focussing on Jazz. The Festival was an opportunity for The Golden River City Jazz Band to showcase their repertoire and to mingle with international musicians...

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Discography

• Golden River City Jazz Band + George Probert + Jim Driscoll, produced with George Probert (Jazz ton record GR 2221)
• Festival, produced with Ken Colyer (GR 2231).
• The Lanteern at De Haan (LP Parsifal 400/9001).
• The Artist in Ostend ( LP Parsifal 400/9003).
• Memories, Golden River city Jazz Band + Beryl Bryden + Judy Johnson + Tom Collins + Les Haricots Rouges (Parsifal 400/9003 )
• 20th Anniversary Album, Golden River City Jazz Band + Bud Freeman + Beryl Bryden (Moss KRM617)
• 30 Years Golden River City Jazz Festival Kortrijk, Golden River City Jazz Band + Norbert Detaeye + Val Wiseman + Beryl Bryden + Pat Hawes (CD NEON GOLDEN RIVER 833O55 – 2)
• Lange Munte Blues, Golden River City Jazz Band live at 'Den Haese' (Hill Recordings CD GR 009)
• 25 years Golden River City Jazz Band, Golden River City Jazz Band + Bernard Bilk + Norbert De Taeye + Cora Hollema + Angela Brown (CD GOLDEN RIVER C 6598)
• GRC Live Party, (D GOLDEN RIVER GR 010)
• GRC & OSCAR KLEIN, Live at "The Kolfbaan" Gorinchem (CD GOLDEN RIVER GR O11)
• Hold that tiger, (CD KATHO GOLDEN RIVER GR 21 /2002)
• Tribute to Alan Elsdon, (CD GOLDEN RIVER GR 22/2006)

Members

Clarinet (+ Saxophone) - Jean-Jacques Pieters

Trumpet - Alan Eldson

Drums - Colin Bowden

Trombone - Terry Brunt

Banjo - Arsene De Vlieger

Bass - Jean-Paul Mahieu

External links

• http://www.goldenrivercityjazzband.com/
• http://home.scarlet.be/~jjpieter/home_1.htm
• http://www.roelen.com/entertainment/nl/performers/Golden-River-City-Jazz-Band
• http://www.jazzinbelgium.com/band/golden-river-city-jazz-band
• http://www.revivaljazz.nl/grcjb.htm
• Jazzton club