Musik!

No other art form was as personal to Roger Willemsen as music: it was an accomplice from an early age when it came to distilling life. Willemsen's declarations of love for jazz, his bows to classical composers, his vigorous defense of artistic existence, and above all, his profound understanding of musicians and their themes are legendary. His unique writings about music are much more than that: they are an expression of a life lived along the line where one engages in activities born of joy or excitement, but never of indifference. Roger Willemsen's homage to music and its heroines and heroes gives one a sense of being alive.