Jokke schreurs biography
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Jokke Schreurs (Born in 1960 in Hasselt, Belgium) started playing the guitar when he was 12. He grew up with the country Blues of Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson, and later with Folk, Pierre Bensusan, Wannes Van de Velde, Rum,...
He plays fingerpicking and folk in small bands.
Only later did he become interested in Jazz. First Coltrane and Charlie Parker, and eventually back to Django Reinhardt.
Jokke schreurs biography
Among his instructors were Pierre Van Dormael and Philippe Catherine. Jokke was still a student back then, and he played for pocket change in the local circuit.
In 1987 he decides to try to make it as a professional artist. He plays with multiple larger and smaller bands, especially Swing-Jazz bands, at pub-crawls and barbeques, at receptions and birthday parties.
And Blues, with Big Dave Reniers.
In 1992 he becomes a father for the first time, realising he should become more serious now. Together with clarinet and saxophone player André Donni he establishes the quartet “A Drum is a W