Rein de Graaff

Rein De Graaff (Groningen, The Netherlands, 24 October 1942) is a Dutch jazz pianist, composer and producer. Born in Groningen and raised in Veendam, Rein learned about jazz, thanks to the bunch of 78rpm records his grandfather bought when the war was over, to play on his new gramophone. One of those records was Skyliner by Charlie Barnet, recorded in 1944. The tune Skyliner would inspire Rein to play his first music on a plastic saxophone-toy-kazoo and later at a real Hohner harmonica, his grandmother bought for him.