Trivia

Was front man and pianist for the Pim Jacobs Trio.

He briefly operated the Go Go Club in Loosdrecht, near Hilversum, from 1967.

Jacobs also worked as a producer of non-jazz radio and television programs from 1964.

In the 1970s and 1980s he presented concerts in schools.

The Pim Jacobs Theatre in Maarssen was named after him.

Pim Jacobs was a Dutch jazz pianist, composer and television presenter.

Pim and his brother Ruud formed a trio with drummer Wessel Ilcken in 1954. The band grew with the addition of guitarist Wim Overgaauw and Ilcken's wife, Rita Reys. The trio recorded with Herbie Mann in 1956.

He started playing the piano at the age of six.

Pim Jacobs and Rita Reys performed as a duo -or trio with guitarist Wim Overgaauw-, and married in 1960. They often recorded and played jazz festivals in Europe and New Orleans, "their typical program featuring arrangements of vocal music standards as well as bebop material".