Hans Dulfer

Hans Dulfer (born 28 May 1940 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a tenor saxophone player of global fame and a giant of Dutch jazz. He touched his first tenor saxophone in the 1950s, inspired by notorious big sound tenor players like Ike Quebec, Big Jay McNeeley and Coleman Hawkins, their stage acts the pure and powerful examples of the kind of showmanship Dulfer adored and adopted for himself. Aged 17, Dulfer embarked on a musical career that stretches itself to this very day.