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Herman SANDY

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Herman SANDY, born in 192, bought his first vinyl record, Georgia On My Mind by Nat Gonella, in 1935. He then began studying trumpet and classical music, but was more interested in listening to Buck Clayton, Louis Armstrong and all the great American jazz musicians on the radio.

He toured in Germany after the liberation, then returned to perform in Brussels.

While playing in Leo Souris', David Bee's and Fud Candrix's historical Belgian orchestras, he went to perform with Toots Thielemans, Sadi and Jacques Pelzer at the Nice Jazz Festival in 1948.

He spent six years in the Henry Segers' TV orchestra, and 17 years with the great Flemish Francis Bay's TV orchestra (later Freddy Sunder's orchestra). In 1957 at a Miles Davis concert held at the Brussels Theatre Patria, Miles stopped Herman after finishing his set (his band opened for Miles Davis) and asked "Was that you playing 'You and the Night and the Music'? It was damned good!"

In 1996-Õ97 he plays with "JazzfunÓ (Alex Scorier, Roger Asselberghs, Robert Pernet)

Herman SANDY currently has a quintet, 'Five is a crowd', with Vincent Mardens (saxophone), José Bedeur (bass), Jean Haurez (piano), José Wampach.
He also plays with the RETRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Herman SANDY appears on several albums :

  • Innovation en Jazz vol. 3 (1955)
  • Jazz in Little Belgium (Anthology), Decca (1958)
  • In 1958, he records with Constant LETELLIER (ts) , Roger ASSELBERGHS (bar) , Willy ALBIMOOR (p), Paul DUBOIS (b) , Johnny PERET (drs).
  • Jazz World Wide with Star Players (Jazz Club) (1976)
  • The Talent of Herman Sandy (Jazz Club) (1981)
  • SADI's big band album "Swing a Little" (September) (1971).

  • RETRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA (cd That's My Desire).

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