Rudy Balliu

Born at that time the Nazis got over-run his local Belguim, Rudy Balliu progressed into a musician who have devoted himself to preserving the music of days gone by, a spot of look at he has honored fairly rigidly his entire profession. It is secure to say many anything he takes on comes from a time a minimum of a couple of years before his conception, an undeniable fact created out by music group names like the Sizzling Six, the Culture Serenaders, and the initial Flemish Ragtime Orchestra. This isn’t to minor the Roof Music group, a Ghent combo he performed in at age 16, or even to deny a hurrah towards the Yarra Yarra Music group, an Australian clothing with whom he toured five years later on. Balliu started his career being a trumpeter, it had been this device that he performed within the Roof Music group, and the grade of his playing might have been the reason why the group was compelled from the roofing. His change to clarinet occurred in 1965, quickly associated with some reputation-establishing collaborations with critical traditional jazz players such as for example Alton Parnell and Child Thomas. Barry Martyn highlighted Balliu in his 1974 revue entitled A Evening in New Orleans, marketing the clarinetist as somebody who could musically evoke an atmosphere a long way away from the property of pale beverage and stinky mozzarella cheese. Following many of the earlier mentioned combo affiliations in the past due ’70s Balliu finally got possibilities to record being a leader from 1983, including a tribute to his coach Thomas. Martyn stayed a bandmate years later with both co-leading a fresh, but needless to say musically old, edition of the Culture Serenaders.