Members

JORIS MINTEN


Studied at the Jazz department of Maastricht and Amsterdam with Rob Bruynen and Jan Oosthof. 


Joris has toured with numerous national and international showcases like: Belle Perez, El Tattoo del Tigre, Greatest Hits Tour Q Music met o.a. Level 42, ABC, Spandau Ballet, Kool & the Gang, The Three Degrees, Elvis the Concert, Berget Lewis, Waylon, Ben Saunders, etc.
He has also participated in numerous radio and tv shows, album and dvd recordings. 

ROEL VAN WIJK


Roel studied at the Maastricht Conservatory with Rob Bruynen.
Masterclasses by Bobby Shew and Erik Vloeimans


Roel played in as various projects as: Elvis the Concert, Aachen Big Band, Mo’ Jones Big Band, Bigband Swing Design, de rock, soul and fun(k) formatie Juicy Lucy en de EuroCity Jazzband, next to various freelance-activities. 
He joined various projects by Lee Konitz and Bill Dobbins.


He has also participated in numerous radio and tv shows, album and dvd recordings.

JOOP WIJNEN


Joop has studied at the Conservatories of Maastricht and Hilversum
He has been very active as a free-lance musician in jazz, pop as well as orchestral settings.
Together with the other Elite Horns he is a regular with Partyband Infinity and the Mo Jones BIg Band.


He has done lots of recordings national and internationally at various studios like


Theelen Recordings (NL)
Marlstone Recordings (NL) 

Fish Eye Music Studio (D)

Grindstone Recordings (B)

Cosmic Sound Recordings (NL)

Galaxy (B)

Copy Cat Recordings (NL)

Joop has participated in over 175 album recordings and various live dvd and tv tapings, and has worked with as various artists as Rose Royce, Boney M, Berget Lewis, Glennis Grace, Boris, Allesandro Saffina, Temptations, Four Tops.

He completed his first USA Tour in 1978 with the European Youth Orchestra and has toured the USA 8 more times since then with various Jazz Orchestras.

TIM PATERS

Tim has studied at the Conservatories of The Hague and Maastricht with Jan Menu, John Ruocco and Claudius Valk.

As a free-lance artist he works with lots of orchestras, bands and DJ's. And could be seen with acts like Berget Lewis, Frans Bauer, Starkoo, Rene Shuman, Mo' Jones Big Band etc etc. and can be heard on lots of CD productions.

Tim is very active with his own projects like:

Tim Paters Quintet

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