Herman Te Loo

Herman Te Loo is a Dutch saxophone player (soprano, alto and tenor - and sometimes bass clarinet), and a musician who does not like pigeonholes. He has played and plays in groups and groups that cross boundaries, but always have an element of improvisation in them. In the past, these included the industrial garage-impro quartet Gorgonzola Legs (with guitarists Hessel Veldman -Y Create- and Jos van Duijne and drummer Gert Jan Prins), the free jazz trio with a dash of Shakespeare Teeming Womb of Royal Kings (with bassist Egon Kracht and again drummer Gert Jan Prins) and the power-impro trio Thoroughbred Mongrels (with guitarist Anton Goudsmit and drummer Pierre van der Linden). Herman could also be heard in larger ensembles such as Way Out West and Perfect Or What!?, with which he played an eclectic repertoire that included Frank Zappa, Astor Piazzolla and Thelonious Monk equally well. Today, his musical activities have coalesced into two groups: Humph and Zapmachine. He also still occasionally plays as a duo with Humph reed player Ditmer Weertman under the name Gallery Play, and from time to time appears as a guest with groups such as Velatropa. [SOURCE: HERMAN TE LOO]