The Houdini's Jazz Sextet

Headlines - that's what the Dutch hard bop sextet The Houdini's made in the national and international jazz press after having played the prestigious 1989 North Sea Jazz Festival. The authoritative American jazz magazine DownBeat even proclaimed them 'equals of the young jazzers of New York', words of praise summing up their capabilities rather nicely. Re-evaluating that first album and their sophomore effort Headlines, the 21st century jazz buff really gets a blast from the past. The Houdini's played hard bop as if they had invented the genre -- and they still do so.