Thu 23 Oct 2025 – 20:00 – Maarten van der Grinten & Friends

Join us for a great evening of music with Maarten van der Grinten & Friends — an intimate concert blending the soul of jazz with the vibrant rhythms of Brazilian music.

Set in a cozy and welcoming Munganga, this is the perfect chance to listen to the compositions of the great jazz Icons such Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker and Luis Bonfá, connect, and experience the warmth of live music up close.

Maarten van der Grinten
Guitar player from the Netherlands. He lives in Amsterdam, but he and his guitar visited a lot of places in the world. People will define him as a jazz guitarist first, but Maarten loves a good song which brings him to all sorts of crossovers in music. Maarten is known for his expressive creative and intimate style of playing.

​Busy Man
Maarten has been playing every month with composer and jazz veteran Theo Loevendie & the Wellingtonians. Transparent abstract music, balancing between classical and jazz. Theo (92!) recently stopped with the gig and Maarten took it over, alternating with tenorist Yuri Honing. 

Maarten had his own psychedelic country blues band Martha Jane & the Talisman. With his swampy resonator and his spacy effects he created a completely new sound for their originals. Unfortunately the pandemic ended the live activities and the band seems not to survive it for now.
Also he continues playing with his long-last friends in jazz band DIG d’DIZ. He travels regularly to the Middle East to play with the Lebanese singer Rima Khcheich and he loves to play duo gigs with Hermine Deurloo (chromatic harmonica).

He is currently teacher and chairman of the guitar section of the jazz faculty at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
And last but not least, Maarten has been finally working on a solo album. Every song was captured in video as well and the recordings will be released one by one, every week on YouTube.

Maarten is not only known to be a very talented guitar player, he’s also doing a great job as a composer and arranger. Scroll down and find out what the man is up to!

Some history
From 1982 until 1987, Maarten studies guitar at the prestigious Hilversum Conservatory under the tutor-ledge of Willem ‘Wim’ Overgaauw and graduated with the highest honors. In 1987, he is awarded the Loosdrecht Festival Promotion Prize and in ’88, he receives a scholarship to continue his studies for one year in New York at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1991, van der Grinten wins the Max van Praag award for outstanding accompanying at the Loosdrecht Festival.

In this period Maarten starts his two groups the Maarten van der Grinten - Benjamin Herman Quartet (four albums) and DIG d’DIZ (five albums), with Jan Menu (baritone sax) and Jan Voogd (double bass).