The Belgian multi-instrumentalist, Bobby Jaspar (could play the tenor sax, clarinet, flute, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet) was raised by his aunt when his father, a well known painter of Liege died suddenly. She owed her love of music since childhood and his love for jazz. In Dixieland I used to play clarinet in a group of teenagers in the neighborhood until he joined the group and Pierre Raoul Faisant Robert who saw the future of the emerging bebop jazz. Thus was born the “Bop Shost” who achieved international fame performing in France and Germany coming to play even with Peanust Holland and Don Byas.

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