On February 7 Ben van den Dungen will be playing with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra.
Van den Dungen has been a professional musician from the early ’80. In 1983, he joined the Latin Jazz group Nueva Manteca. With this group he has recorded eleven albums and toured several times through North America, Canada, the Caribbean and South America. In 1984 he started, together with his colleague and friend Jarmo Hoogendoorn, the van den Dungen/Hoogendoorn Quintet, and also together with his companion the group Brand New Orleans (modern Jazz with African percussion). With these groups, Ben toured from 1985 through Europe.
From 1996 he played in the Louis van Dijk Super Band.