“The memory of things past is important for a jazz musician . "- Louis Armstrong
The appointment of Joey Alexander for two Grammy Awards created an increased international interest in the jazz scene in Indonesia, but it is not the first child prodigy to emerge here play jazz piano.
Jazz arrived in what was then the Dutch East Indies back nearly a century, in 1919, and its entry represented a socio-cultural change among Dutch adolescents and Indo-European just as the advent of rock 'n' roll was in the mid 50s in the United States. Because nothing happens in isolation, it is important to ask why.
According to the second full census survey of 1930, the population of Batavia was 435,000 having grown from 306,000 in 1920, while the population of the Dutch East Indies was 60,727,233. Among these millions, just 240,417 were people with a European legal status in the colony, and about 75 percent of them were "Eurasians" children of Dutch men who had taken women "natives" for the duration of their contracts here.
The Building Society Concordia in Surabaya, 1850 - 100
There were also a number of foreign traders, including the British, who were " in need "of entertainment and fun such as that known in Europe and the United States. This was provided by the high-end hotels that had their own home groups, theaters and a Sociëteit Concordia official network, which offered theatrical and musical performances with dance weekend.
Jazz was born from the ragtime music (rhythm 'ragged'), which originated in hot neighborhoods African-American communities in St. Louis and was popularized by the publication for piano performances Ernest Hogan. Another African-American, Scott Joplin, recorded Maple Leaf Rag in 1899; the first record of surviving the melody of 106 by the military band of the United States.
Ragtime was popular in Batavia. For example, in May 1913, Elite Cinema and Deca Park Theatre, which had live acts of vaudeville, ragtime featured actor Tom Richards and American dancer.
On February 26, 1917, the all-white Original Dixieland Band 'Jass (ODJB) recorded both sides of a 78rpm shellac disc, Dixie Jass Band One Step / Livery Stable Blues , which are considered the first jazz recordings. Ragtime went out of style
Two years later, jazz (more "Jass") arrived in Batavia with the act of the San Francisco-based Columbia Park Boys Club -. A group of 42 missionaries boys. Their eclectic program included singing, dancing, tumbling (gymnastics), with marches and jazz played cornet, trombone, trumpet, saxophone, percussion with. A journalist from East India Het Nieuws van den Dag rejected the Boys Club show as a " kind of entertainment cocktail ." Although it was fun, the " of strong and loud music " gave him " stomach cramps ".
But new music proved popular, particularly with older teens. As phonographs were already part of household furnishings, heavy shellac discs were brought into the country from, it is suggested, Shanghai via Singapore. live music area too in upscale hotels including bands personnel, called "string" groups because banjos and violins predominated, soon began internally to include jazz in their repertoire for morning and weekend dances.
It was not long before high school and vocational college students decided to form their own dance groups playing new music. However, it was not in Batavia, but in Makassar that the first group began. In 1920, WM van Eldik formed the black and white strip with his 17-year-old salary violin playing brother-in-law Rudolf Supratman, now best known as the composer of the national anthem Indonesia Raya . They played at weddings and birthday parties.
The Batavia Jazz Band formed in 1922 with a line of six banjoists, two saxophonists C-melody, a piano, an acoustic bassist and drummer, who had all Dutch names. However, Pater who played trombone and cornet Geduld were perhaps Suriname, the Dutch colony in the Caribbean. All were amateur but their influence stretched Ted Lewis and Paul Whiteman as interpreted from partitions.
The following year, the folded strip and two banjo players, Wim and Piet van Bruyn Rozenburg brothers joined with four other pupils of the school King Willem III to form The Royal Jazz Band, but alto sax and violin respectively. They took their name from Koningsplein (King's Place, now Monas) because they had a regular booking at Hotel railways on the east side, where Gambir station is now.
Another band on stage at the time was flatly called The Jazz Band of origin. It is now noted for its drummer: Moh. Aroef was the Indonesian jazz musician first recorded.
In 1926, a number of lively scene Filipino jazz musicians, and 1928 saw a visit from a real group of American jazz, that of Jack Carter drummer on tour in Southeast Asia after have completed a contract at the Plaza Hotel in Shanghai. Their live sound is so much better than recorded "plateau", they inspired young local musicians.
A new group was formed at the end of this year with sax, trumpet and trombone, with Moh. Aroef on drums. They got regular concerts in the Park Theatre Deca restaurant (north side of Koningsplein) on Saturday night after the movie of the show, and the Hotel Railway whose director was Paatje Vos. At the end of 1926, he became director of the newly opened pool Tjikini Zoo (now Taman Ismail Mazurki), and the group, now called Orchestra Bath Swimming, played Sunday matinees, which began at 11am.
" visitors had first bath for half an hour and spent the rest of the morning dancing to live music. At two o'clock they went home to their afternoon nap . "
Yes, it was a time of leisure for very rare.
Bands came and went staff left school, were published outside Batavia or returned to the Netherlands, so we jump to 1930 and the entry of Charlie Overbeek Bloem to scene. Born in 1912, he was barely six years old when he took his first step to fame playing Paderewski Minuet in G Schouwburg Weltevreden, now Gedung Kesenian.
Bloem was to prove a musical driving force not only in Batavia, but also nationally. At 18, he was the head of a trio, the Jazz-O-Maniacs that played in the lobby King Willem III school. He was also a key player in Kings of money, the name of a brand of cigarettes. They had concerts in elite hotels like the Hotel des Indes, the Batavian Yacht Club and other company locations such as Sociëteit Concordia in Bandung, regularly broadcast live on the radio.
In 1936, the semi-professional group registered both sides of a disk 78s for HMV, Dinah and Ma It Eyes At Me , which unfortunately does not seem survived. In early 1938, Bloem resigned from the group and concentrated as the distribution of live piano soloist on Saturday evening on the radio network approved by the government heard throughout the archipelago.
On December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, jazz in Dutch East Indies came to an abrupt end that all able-bodied men were mobilized and sent to their defensive positions to prepare for the Japanese invasion . The next chapter A History of Jazz in Indonesia started in late August 1945, when Charlie Overbeek Bloem was liberated from Japanese internment camp in Bandung.
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