Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy nomination. She has performed and recorded with Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, Angie Stone, Maceo Parker and Rick Braun and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995), Pink Floyd (1990), and Tower of Power (2014). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy Meets… (2007), in which she interviewed musicians. In 2013, she became a judge in the fifth season of the Dutch version of X Factor.
Dulfer was born on September 19, 1969 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She began playing the drums at the age of five. As a six-year-old, she started to play the soprano saxophone. At age seven, she switched to alto saxophone and later began playing in a local concert band Jeugd Doet Leven (English translation: “Youth Brings Life”) in Zuiderwoude.
Dulfer played her first solo on stage with her father’s band De Perikels (“The Perils”). At age eleven, she made her first recordings for the album I Didn’t Ask (1981) of De Perikels. In 1982, when she was twelve years old, she played as a member of Rosa King’s Ladies Horn section at the North Sea Jazz Festival. According to Dulfer, King encouraged her to become a band leader. In 1984, at age fourteen, she started the band Funky Stuff.
Dulfer’s band performed throughout the Netherlands and in 1987 was the opening act for two of Madonna’s European concerts.
In 1988, Prince invited Dulfer on stage to play an improvised solo during one of his European shows. In 1989 Dulfer appeared in Prince’s “Partyman” video.
Dulfer performed session work with Eurythmics guitarist and producer Dave Stewart and was a guest musician for Pink Floyd during the band’s performance at Knebworth in 1990, from which several tracks were released on a multi-artist live album and video, Live at Knebworth ’90. The Knebworth show has since been released as part of the Pink Floyd box set The Later Years 1987–2019 on CD, DVD, and BD.
Dulfer was also the featured saxophonist on Van Morrison’s A Night in San Francisco, an album in 1993, and performed with Alan Parsons and his band at the World Liberty Concert in 1995.
Dulfer collaborated with her father Hans Dulfer on the duet album Dulfer Dulfer in 2001. She joined Prince’s band in 2004 for his Musicology Live 2004ever tour.
In 2007, she released her ninth studio album Candy Store. The album reached a No. 2 position in Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz charts. Her songs “Candy Store” and “L.A. Citylights” reached the No. 1 position in Smooth Jazz National Airplay charts in the United States.
Dulfer is mostly a self-taught musician except for some training in a concert band and a few months of music lessons. Until 2010 Dulfer played a Selmer Mk VI alto – which is visible in the majority of early photographs. In 2010 she became an endorsee of the Dutch Free Wind saxophone, created by Friso Heidinga, who started building saxophones in Amsterdam in 2009.
In 2007, Dulfer was the presenter and interviewer in Candy Meets…, her television program for public broadcaster NPS. In the series, she met with Sheila E., Maceo Parker, Hans Dulfer, Van Morrison, Dave Stewart, and Mavis Staples. (wikipedia)
And here´s her 2nd solo-album:
Sax-a-Go-Go is the second album by Dutch alto saxophonist Candy Dulfer, released in 1993. It entered the US Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart at No. 5 in February 1994, remaining on the chart for 31 weeks.
The album peaked at number 77 in Australia. The album includes a version of Eugene McDaniels’ Vietnam War protest song “Compared to What”, and “I Can’t Make You Love Me”, a hit for Bonnie Raitt from her album Luck of the Draw (1991). (wikipedia)
European frontcover:
Saxophonist Candy Dulfer’s sophomore album, 1993’s Sax-A-Go-Go, built upon the smooth jazz of her debut while also playing up more of her hip-hop and dance music influences. Once again working with producer/multi-instrumentalist Ulco Bed, Dulfer delved even deeper into the club-ready funk and acid jazz that was in its heyday during the early ’90s. These are synthesizer and drum machine-heavy productions showcasing Dulfer’s high-energy saxophone lines. In that sense, tracks like the title cut (featuring rapper Easy Mo Bee) and the swinging funk number “Bob’s Jazz” sound like instrumental takes on the hip-hop and R&B sound of groups like TLC and Bell Biv DeVoe. A slick studio production for sure, but Dulfer’s longstanding love of artists like Maceo Parker, Miles Davis, and Prince came through. In keeping with this more organic, swaggering sound, Dulfer covered ’70s jazz-funk pioneer Les McCann’s classic “Compared to What” and delivered a convincing take on Average White Band’s “Pick Up the Pieces.” The result is an album that successfully conveyed Dulfer’s own jazz and funk-based style, just as it celebrated her standing as the queen of smooth jazz party music. (by Matt Collar)
Personnel:
Ulco Bed (bass, guitar, drums, percussion, vocals, keyboards)
Candy Dulfer (saxophone, vocals)
Frans Hendriks (drums, percussion)
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many, many guest musicians:
Tracklist:
01. 2 Funky (Bed) 4.47
02. Sax-a-Go-Go (featuring Easy Mo Bee) (Bee/Dulfer) 4.56
03. Mister Marvin (Bed) 5.36
04. Man In The Desert (Dulfer/Bed) 5.35
05. Bob’s Jazz (Bed) 4.51
06. Jamming (Dulfer/Bed) 5.23
07. I Can’t Make You Love Me (Shamblin/Reid) 4.31
08. Pick Up The Pieces (Single Version) (Ball/Stuart/White/McIntosh/McIntyre/Gorrie) 4.02
09. Sunday Afternoon (Prince) 8.04
10. 2 Funky (Radio Version) (Bed) 4.36
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11. Compared to What (Mac Daniels) 5.56
(taken from the European edition)
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Hans Dulfer is one of Holland’s best known and most versatile musicians. He closely follows the latest trends, but maintains to be a typical jazz musician. For many years he operated as a stage performer par excellence, putting record making on the second plan. When in the nineties he finally becomes serious about recording, large-scale success follows in the Netherlands and even a star status in Japan.
The Third in 1970, followed by the solo records Candy Clouds and El Saxofon. He was accompanied on these records, among others, by Latin musicians from the group Ritmo Natural.
While daughter Candy becomes more famous with mainstream pop-jazz, Dulfer sr’s becomes interested in speed- and thrashmetal. In 1990 he was appointed director of Paradiso (an important pop music concert hall in Amsterdam). He gives up on dis position already after a year because of internal disagreement. In 1990 Dulfer starts a new band: Tough Tenors. For VPRO national radio he subsequently presents jazz radio shows like ‘Streetbeats’, ‘Hothouse’ and ‘In the Midnight Hour’. In 1992, together with the Surinam Music Ensemble led by Eddie Veldman Dulfer presents the Kid Dynamite Suite, a tribute to the legendary tenor saxophonist Kid Dynamite from Suriname. In 1993 he receives the North Sea Jazz Bird Award. Soon after this he decides to move in a different musical direction.
Dulfer toured in Japan for the first time. Meanwhile, the album ‘Express Delayed (old recordings from 1978 with organ player Herbert Noord) appears on CD
Dulfer celebrates his sixtieth birthday in pop music hall ‘De Melkweg’ in Amsterdam. Besides his own band ,amongst others, also his daughter Candy Dulfer, trumpeteer Saskia Laroo, pianist Michiel Borstlap, Kiers & De Vries (tenor saxophonists Wouter Kiers and Ruud de Vries) and Dutch politician Hans Dijkstal appear. ‘El Saxofon Part II’ is the last album he records for record company EMI.
The album ‘Scissors’ is a result from the collaboration with dance producer handieMan Maurice. SENA (the Dutch organization that manages “neighboring rights” announces that Hans Dulfer is the most often played Dutch musician on foreign radio and television.
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Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s he was a popular arranger, having written charts for Fletcher Henderson’s big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and ’90s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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It’s hard to keep reviews of obscure 41-year-old recordings in context. In some ways, this CD has not aged as well as others in Roger Chapman’s extensive solo discography, yet one has to recall the dreadful state of corporate-run FM radio back then (and now).
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Les Dudek is one of the guys you hear and think, why have I not heard this? How could I have missed this?!
