Now's the time that Amsterdam's own Saskia Laroo unleashes her latest album highlighting her jubilee (40 years on stage, 25 years of Laroo Records and Saskia Laroo Band)--and it's right on time! Saskia plays all her instruments on this album: trumpet, bass, sax and singing, with funky dance, hip hop, world grooves, and jazzy flavors melded together--all Saskia Laroo compositions and collaborations with vocalists and instrumentalists like keyboardist/vocalist Warren Byrd, trombonist Joseph 'Mr Defunkt' Bowie, rappers from Netherlands, US & Burundi and more! Be ready to groove from hip hop to bossa to reggae, from blues to funk with a smooth salsa-- with her and all that jazzy trumpet.

Jazz trumpeter Saskia Laroo and her eight-piece funk unit give a cooking live concert in Zimbabwe at the unique Harare international Festival of the Arts [HIFA] May 3, 2013. Saskia combines her jazzy sound with a rocking rhythm section, rappers Complex and Phantom, African percussionist Pape Seck and American pianist/vocalist Warren Byrd. Features the debut performance and a radio edit of their new single "Africa Dancin". The DVD version includes POV footage of their adventures in Greater Harare: a Hang in an African village; a lion park trek; a music workshop with aspiring local youth; scenes from performances at First Street, Harare center, and at a Dutch inauguration reception in Zimbabwe].

Brand new project and another change of pace from our Dutch jazz diva from the Netherlands, teaming as two with her amazing melifluous trumpet vis a vis Monk-master Warren Byrd pianist/composer/ vocalist for a Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk tribute with covers as well as the duo's new compositions, Byrd's scats and hand drums, Laroo's toggles between trumpet and upright bass--100% Organic Jazz

Saskia 's fifth release, presenting a melange of Funk, Dance, and Jazz using instrumental themes, vocals, rap, beatbox, and improvisation over hip grooves. Really Jazzy features Saskia Laroo playing trumpet, saxophone, upright bass & vocals. With Keyboardist/ singer/co-arranger Warren Byrd (USA), trombonist/vocalist Frank Lacey; drummers Gene Jackson and Ronald Wright; rappers Stewlocks, Firestorm and Phantom, beatboxer Eyesful.

Saskia Laroo meets Teddy Edwards ft Ernie Andrews Dutch female trumpet goddess is at it again with this straight-ahead jazz album that features two living treasures of the American jazz & blues scene - tenor player Teddy Edwards & blues singer Ernie Andrews; the album, recorded in LA,has cool, grooving standards & newly arranged compositions by Edwards - also featured is Art Hillary, Wendell Williams & Gerrick King.

Dutch female trumpet phenom Saskia Laroo presents a straight-ahead acoustic jazz album of standards & originals in the Miles Davis mode - she mostly plays a muted trumpet while the heavy grooving rhythm section lays down a sweet & steady foundation for Saskia's slithery solos. Line up: Albert Sarko - piano, Jos Machtel - acoustic bass, Martin van Duynhoven - drums.

the second album from Dutch female trumpet virtuoso continues her amazing funky streak, combining hip jazz/acid jazz with dance music styles such as drum 'n bass, speed garage & big beat on all original cuts (except one tribute to Miles Davis) - she uses acoustic instruments in a unique way, soaking them with hip hop beats & booty shakin' dance grooves. Guest appearances by a.o. Rosa King (vocals) and Candy Dulfer (sax).

the debut album from Dutch female trumpet master combines the hippest elements of jazz & acid jazz with beefy, bottom heavy hip hop breakbeats, trancy house grooves, latin flavors, R&B & the rapping talents of Poetic Voice, Mac Maestro & QF Da Funkee P - flute (Ronald Snijders), sax (Hans Dulfer & Benjamin Herman), keys (Rob Gaasterland, also co-production, recording& editing) & vocals (Johnny Kelvin) round out the mix.