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- Birth nameJean Jacques Sels
- Jack Sels was born on January 29, 1922 in Berchem, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor and composer, known for Meeuwen sterven in de haven (1955), Het afscheid (1966) and De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr. (1968). He died on March 21, 1970 in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.
- Although Jack Sels played with jazz legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Lou Bennett and Kenny Clarke, his fame did not spread worldwide because of his choice to stay in Antwerp.
- Was a Belgian jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is now considered to be one of the most remarkable Belgian post-war jazz saxophonists.
- His music has been played and recorded by a.o. Johnny Griffin and the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band.
- From 1958 on he worked on radio programs for the NIR, the later BRT radio, and on behalf of the Adult Education department of the Ministry of Culture, he toured through Flanders to promote jazz music.
- To earn a living, he worked in an ice cream parlour in the Antwerp Hoogstraat (High Street) and spent much time listening to his jazz idols, among them the tenor saxophonist Lester Young, trumpeters Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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