Gijs Hendriks has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 27 November 2022. Songs played include Emptiness.

Gijs Hendriks (Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 26, 1938 - May 21, 2017) was a Dutch jazz saxophonist (tenor, soprano, baritone and alt) and composer.

His first professional work as a jazz musician, Hendriks had in 1955, in a club for American soldiers in Frankfurt am Main. He lived and worked in Germany, France and Morocco and returned to the Netherlands in the early 1960's.

In 1967, together with bassist Bert Ruiter and guitarist Herman Meyer, Hendriks founded the Fullhouse…