London Jazz Feature
Dutch singer Wilma Baan, who is releasing her debut album So Nice at the age of 69, can trace her education in ‘The Great American Songbook’ back to her childhood in Utrecht. It was in that famous city in the Netherlands that her father Henk, a keen amateur bass and cello player, used to take her to a music store in the early 1960s to listen to new jazz releases from America. “This record shop was known for importing the very latest jazz. Those albums were like food. It was what I knew and grew up with.”