Jaap Sombroek

Dutch drummer from Volendam, the Netherlands. Born on 17-02-1952, Died 11-03-2011. He played drums at age 14, in one of the first incarnations of BZN, from 10-01-1967 until 17-10-1969. He replaced Gerrit Woestenburg who had only played live with BZN in 1965-66, and was replaced by [a537278] in 1969. Jaap went to [a778674] (1970-1972) and played in De Dekker Band and Bzn '66 (1997-2000). Jaap plays on the first four BZN Polydor singles 6992562, , and 5550198. For the sixth Polydor single , an old bandphoto was used with Jaap and Evert Woestenburg, but at that time they were already replaced by Jan Keizer and Thomas Tol. Jaap plays on 3 Left Side singles , 6827925 and 7618165.