Al Goyens

Al Goyens was a Belgian jazz trumpet player who played in the mainstream and swing idiom. After piano lessons at a young age, he started playing the trumpet in 1936. Basically self-taught. He spent part of World war II in captivity, then joined the bands of Jean Omer and Henri Van Bemst and after the war, of Léo Souris, with whom he toured in Germany for the US army. Back in Belgium, he forms the house band of the Cosmopolite, which gives him the opportunity to perform with many well known jazz figures during their stay in Brussels.