FERDINAND POVEL
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Ferdinand Povel was born on February 13, 1947 in the Dutch city of Haarlem. He comes from an artistic family. His father was a cineaste and his mother a pianist. At an early age, Ferdinand developed a taste for jazz, which he was first introduced to when, as a gift on his twelfth birthday, he received a ticket to a late-night concert by the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In 1961 he began studying clarinet with Theo Loevendie and teaching himself saxophone because jazz was not yet taught formally in the Netherlands. In effect, he learned by playing with experienced musicians, such as pianists Rob Madna and Frans Elsen, and picked up his knowledge of harmony and arrangement as a young member of the orchestras of Kurt Edelhagen and Peter Herbolzheimer, and of the Skymasters.
In 1964 Povel won the Loosdrecht Jazz Concours with the Martin Haak Quartet. Critics called
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