North Sea Jazz Club, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Guitarist, composer and director Marnix Busstra loves crossing borders. He travels the world with his jazz bands, plays guitar and bouzouki, writes jazz and theatre-songs, and co-creates and directs the exuberant theatre shows of his wife, the Dutch diva Karin Bloemen. Busstra is a constant wheel of invention, with technique expanded by his creative urge to find something new, an evolving state that adds immeasurably to his art. Marnix Busstra and bassist Norbert Sollewijn Gelpke, who have a long history together, founded Marnix Busstraâs Old School Band. The two met in kindergarten, no less than forty-five years ago. They attended the same elementary and secondary school, where they started their first band, Topaz. The âOld School Bandâ features drummer Mark Stoop and keyboardist Eric van de Bovenkamp.