Gerlo Hesselink is an active (jazz) saxophonist. Through his extensive big band experience, he is a regularly asked substitute in various orchestras throughout the Netherlands (including the Metropole Orchestra) but also in Germany. Besides saxophone he plays flute and clarinet. Meanwhile, he has accompanied many internationally known artists such as Toots Thielemans, Benny Golson, Randy Brecker and Deborah Brown. As a soloist in these formations, this resulted in soloists-prices at the Big Band Festival 2008 in Hoofddorp and a year later during the Dutch Big Band Contest 2009 in Enschede.
He is/was also active in several small(er) instrumentation, with musicians like Peter Tiehuis, Hod O ‘Brian and Johan Plomp and his own quartet.
At the moment he is a member of Get The Funk, Dual City Concert Band, Millennium Jazz Orchestra, Noordpool Orkest, Guus Tangelder Bigband, New Sound Jazz Machine, the Ramblers and of course his own quartet.