DELFT (Reuters) - Woody Allen occurs shortly for the first time in the Netherlands. With his New Orleans Jazz Band left Sunday, December 21 in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, concert organizer Mojo made known Wednesday.

Triple Oscar winner Woody Allen is a big jazz lover. The music has always played a major role in both his films and his life. In many of his films is a prominent place given to the jazz standards of the years twenty to forty. The filmmaker since his five tenths plays clarinet and climbed back in the sixties, occasionally the stage with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra.

Since 1996 Allen plays with his New Orleans Jazz Band every Monday at the Cafe Carlyle in the same New York hotel. In the same year they also went for the first time on tour. This tour claimed to eighteen European cities, culminating in a concert at the Paris Olympia.