Tenor saxophonist Kid Dynamite (1911-1963) is one of the pioneer Dutch jazz. His life reads like a thriller. Born in Suriname as Arthur Parisius, going at seventeen as a stowaway on board the Netherlands. He rolls in the Dutch jazz scene. Despite a playing ban the mayor of Amsterdam and the subsequent German occupation, the war Kid reasonably unscathed. He experiences his heyday in the fifties when
… people night after night in the queue to see him play in the Amsterdam jazz club Casablanca. During that time he also takes two 78-rpm records on. On December 7, 1963 Parisius in Germany involved in a car accident. The saxophonist would die a week after the accident from his injuries.more
