Lodewijk Rudolf Arthur Parisius (July 23, 1911 in Hannover,

Para District Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, and Zanderij. Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km2. The district is the mining and forestry centre of Surin ...

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

– December 14, 1963) was a

se/Dutch tenor saxophonist commonly known as "Kid Dynamite." He was noted for mixing jazz with Surinamese

kaseko Kaseko is a musical genre from Suriname. It is a fusion of numerous popular and folk styles derived from Africa, Europe and the Americas. The genre is rhythmically complex, with percussion instruments including skratji (a very large bass drum) ...

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Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first p ...

's popularity in the

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. He died in a road accident in

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Website about the history of Dutch jazz
1911 births 1963 deaths Jazz tenor saxophonists Dutch jazz saxophonists Male saxophonists Surinamese musicians People from Para District Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands Road incident deaths in Germany 20th-century saxophonists 20th-century Dutch male musicians Male jazz musicians {{Suriname-bio-stub