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Some think that pianist Jetse de Jong fell into a big pot of New Orleans’ Gumbo as a child. They say that after a few days he climbed out and hasn’t stopped playing the piano ever since. In reality he found his calling after hearing the music of rock ‘n roll legend Fats Domino.

Armed with foot-stomping second-line grooves and burning blueslicks he bewitches the ivories.

Armed with foot-stomping New Orleans second-line grooves and smoking blues licks, Jetse de Jong bends the keyboard to his will. His lifelong obsession for blues, jazz and gospel music from the South comes across in his original songs as well as in tributes to his heroes Dr. John, Ray Charles and Billy Preston.

This man studied all the great piano players from New Orleans. From the originators in Ragtime and early Jazz to the great R&B pioneers from the 1940’s and 1950’s and the pianists that shaped the sound of New Orleans Soul and Funk. And because he has mastered every style in New Orleans piano, he is free to go where he wants to go.

In 2023 Jetse released his debut EP Jetse de Jong Plays Dorothy Labostrie. The single Rich Woman was played on the world-renowned New Orleans radio station WWOZ. Dave Doyle of the Syncopated Times wrote the following: ‘’... a toe-tapping gumbo which oozes the flavors of both New Orleans and New York City.’’ 

Growing up in a musical home, his father being a jazz vibraphonist and his mother playing records by Randy Newman and Jim Croce, Jetse was set on becoming a musician from an early age. He played his first gigs in local bars and restaurants from 13 years old and his love for performing has kept him succesfully away from pursuing a career as a stockbroker, lawyer or counselor.  

Jetse de Jong and His Buckjumpers released the EP Jetse de Jong Plays Dorothy Labostrie (2023) and their debut-album Here at Home (fall 2025).

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HERE AT HOME (2025)

Unanswered love, answered love, a miniature-opera, charges against the establishment and living in the urban jungle, it’s all in there! Here At Home, the debut album of pianist and singer Jetse de Jong is the most groovy diary ever. Coming up Fall 2025.

Whoever tunes in to Here At Home will listen to a very personal diary put on tape. Listen to a twenty something who falls in love, is disgusted by cruise ships, besings the unlikely love between an alligator and a crocodile and wonders if he will ever find a parking spot in the city center. 

''The Buckjumpers provide a distinct funky sound with a natural flowing groove. This is upbeat, good timin’ music that makes you want to move, and it puts a smile on your face. It’s the sound of the New Orleans groove!''

- Onno Post [DJ Moonshine]

JETSE DE JONG PLAYS DOROTHY LABOSTRIE (2023)

For the first time collected on record: the hip-shakin' songs of Dorothy Labostrie! Dorothy stalked the 1950s New Orleans music scene at night and delivered her songs during the day to Cosimo's studio where singers like Johnny Adams, Irma Thomas and Little Richard recorded them.

She wrote a string of R&B hits and hit the big time with Tutti Frutti before vanishing altogether from the scene after a car accident. Together with my favorite musicians I've reworked some of her greatest works...

''They’re lazy, bluesy numbers steeped in funk and brimming with soul—classics of the rhythm ’n’ blues era given new life, but with a very vintage feel. A toe-tapping gumbo which oozes the flavors of both New Orleans and New York City.If Vulfpeck is the band I’d most like to be in, then de Jong is now the pianist who will inspire me to actually get good enough.''

- Dave Doyle [Syncopated Times]