Lynn Cassiers &
De Haagse Groove
24 October 2021 E 20:00
Lynn Cassiers - voice
Giovanni Di Domenico - fender rhodes
Manolo Cabras - bass
Joao Lobo - drums
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Vansina Trio
31 October 2021 E 20:00
Bruno Vansina - alto saxophone
Louise Van den Heuvel - electric bass
Teun Verbruggen - drums
YouTube
Bruno Vansina grasduint door zijn repertoire met vaste waarde en alttime drum buddy Teun Verbuggen + de recent ontketende oerkrachten van de avontuurlijke "groove lady” Louise Van den Heuvel.
Ramon van Merkenstein Trio
7 November 2021 E 20:30
Ramon van Merkenstein - Double bass
Gabriele di Franco - Guitar and effects
Lieven Venken – drums
The Ramon van Merkenstein Trio conveys their love for performing jazz music and adores connecting with their audience. These are jazz players who can make their music dance deviously or swell like ocean waves. The Ramon van Merkenstein Trio takes command of their music and they take it on a journey. Adventurous, with creative freedom and beyond what’s comfortable.
Serendip Quartet
14 November 2021 E 20:00
Arnaud Guichard - saxophone, compo
Florent Jeunieaux - guitar
Matthias De Waele - drums
Jasper De Roeck - double bass
Serendip Quartet est un groupe de jazz contemporain influencé par la musique électronique, le rock et la musique spirituelle africaine. Leurs compositions s’inspirent d’éléments narratifs leur permettant de créer un univers bien à eux tantôt très énergique, tantôt plus calme et atmosphérique.
Abstract INC.
21 November 2021 E 20:00
Machiel Heremans - guitar, compo
Abel Jednak - alto saxophone
Joos Vandueren - tenor saxophone
Leonard Steigerwald – piano, keys
Otto Kint – double bass
Daniel Jonkers – drums
Is a sextet that plays the compositions of guitarist Machiel Heremans. Despite the rather traditional jazz line-up, the sextet creates an original sound. They do this by focusing on new possibilities to let the two saxophonists play together. For example, by giving them the role of accompanist, or making them use counterpoint. This combined with rich colours, guitar effects and expressive dynamics produces narrative music with a rough edge. At the beginning of October 2020, their debut EP was released on the Zennezrecords label.
Gaspard Sicx Trio
28 November 2021 E 20:00
Sylvain Debaisieux - tenor saxophone
Manolo Cabras - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
YouTube
The trio focuses around the compositions of Gaspard Sicx. The music that comes out from the trio is an energetic blend of free jazz, unstable grooves, delicate swing and cute melodies. The first album got recorded during summer '21 and will (hopefully) be out soon.
Ben Sluijs Trio
5 December 2021 E 20:00
Marek Patrman en Lennart Heyndels spelen reeds lang samen met Ben Sluijs in verschillende formaties. Ook werkten beide heren mee aan de cd's van het eerste en of tweede- Ben Sluijs Quartet, dat steeds kon rekenen op het enthousiasme van pers en publiek. In Roskam spelen ze in trio met een repertoire van eigen composities, originals en standards in een eigenzinnige Jazz-stijl beinvloed door zowel traditie als free.
Een waar avontuur om niet te missen.
SYNESTET
12 December 2021 E 20:00
Hélène Duret - clarinet, compo
Benjamin Sauzereau - guitar, compo
Sylvain Debaisieux - tenor sax
Fil Caporali - double bass
Maxime Rouayroux - drums
Synestet est un appel aux sens, où la perception de la musique devient un mélange de couleurs, de formes, d'odeurs. Cinq musiciens fous d'improvisation, assoiffés de jeux et d'expressions musicales, offrent une musique ouverte, prônent la simplicité, l’inventivité et laissent la part belle à l’improvisation. Entre jazz et musique contemporaine, on retrouve ici l'esprit de Jimmy Giuffre, Ornette Colemann, Duke Ellington, Jakob Bro, Paul Motian.
Toine Thys
Josaphat Valley
19 December 2021 E 20:00
Toine Thys (BE) - saxes
Martin Salemi (BE) - piano/rhodes
Jasen Weaver (USA) - bass
Noam Israeli (IL) - drums
Le saxophoniste Schaerbeekois Toine Thys est un musicien intense qui aime créer la surprise. Avec ses projets et ses collaborations, Thys repousse chaque fois plus loin les limites. Lauréat de l’Octave de la Musique 2021, c’est une figure centrale du saxophone et de la clarinette basse en Belgique, et on peut l’entendre régulièrement en Europe, en Afrique de l’Ouest, et en Asie. Il présente ici une réunion d’excellents musiciens pour explorer des standards et des compositions personnelles : Toine Thys’ Josaphat Valley, ou comment lier local et international.
Roskam
New Year's Jam
2 January 2022 E 20:00
Cancelled
Line Daenen - flute
Lara Humbert - piano
Benjamin Sauzereau - guitar
Fil Caporali - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
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Jordi Grognard Trio
9 January 2022 E 20:00
Jordi Grognard - sax, clarinet & compositions
Manolo Cabras - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
Time flies! And so does music when musicians are connected. This trio has been playing together since many years -in and around the city's jazz venues- therefore the music they share has constantly been evolving, from (and back to) jazz standards, Ornette Coleman originals and own personal compositions. Generous, free-spirited and contagious music; they have just recorded an album, out in 2022!
Sitardust
Indo-Jazz Quintet
16 January 2022 E 20:00
Grégoire Tirtiaux - alto and baritone saxophone
Frédéric Becker - alto and soprano saxophone
Balakumar Paramalingam - mridangam and konnakol
Carlo Strazzante - percussions and konnakol
Joachim Lacrosse - sitar and compositions
SoundCloud
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4 CIRCLES
23 January 2022 E 20:00
Audrey Lauro - alto saxophone
Philippe Lemoine (FR) - saxophone
Emmanuel Cremer (FR) - cello
Nico Chkifi - drums
Because it includes a part of unexplained in its manifestations, like telepathy or presentiment, intuition confronts us with a vision of the world, oscillating between rational and irrational, logical and mysterious, determined
and moving. It is with these concepts that 4 CIRCLES present fresh and exciting music combining compositions and improvisations.
Terpsichore
30 January 2022 E 20:00
Geoffrey Fiorese - piano
Sylvain Debaisieux - tenor saxophone
Jordi Cassagne - double bass
Théo Lanau - drums
Leading pianist and composer Geoffrey Fiorese has decided to build his Quartet project around the myth of "Terpsichore", the muse of dance. This close relationship between music and dance invites us to receive a sound, a melody, not by simple listening, but through the prism of a global perception, where the whole body serves as a receptacle for sound harmony. A large amount of improvisation is left to the musicians who are thus able to react in the moment to an impulse, a feeling, like an imaginary dance that one would build continuously from impressions left by the senses. This project is about living the music, feeling it to the depths of your being, taking the spectator through a unique experience. Between long meditative musical poems and surging improvisations bordering free jazz, this project transcends the frontiers of jazz and thus gradually brings the listener to unknown
territories where listening results in self-forgetfulness.
JSS with special guest
Lukas Somers
6 February 2022 E 20:00
Leonard Steigerwald - Piano
Federico Stocchi - Double Bass
Daniel Jonkers - Drums
Web Site
For this concert guitarist Lukas Somers (aka. SOLAK) will join the band.
JSS sets out to explore the musical possibilities of the compositions by each of the 3 band members.
Circular structures and open forms with catchy melodies. In short: Just Some Songs
Anemic Cinema
13 February 2022 E 20:00
Artan Buleshkaj - guitar, compositions
Rob Banken - alto saxophone, clarinet
Steven Delannoye - saxofoon, clarinet
Matthias de Waele - drums
Anemic Cinema is a quartet led by guitarist Artan Buleshkaj. The band features some of Belgium’s most adventurous young improvisers: Rob Banken (alto saxophone, clarinet), Steven Delannoye (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet) and Matthias de Waele (drums). Combining jagged sonorities and riff-based passages from heavy metal, metric structures and (freely) improvised sections inspired by (avant-)jazz, and harmonies reminiscent of modern classical composers, the band creates an eerie atmosphere featuring intensely nervous and volatile passages that coexist with moments of disquieting reverie.
Haunted Polliwog
20 February 2022 E 20:00
Bruno Grollet - sax, compositions
Marco Giongrandi - guitar
Pierre Hurty - drums
Manolo Cabras - double bass
Le nom est un peu absurde comme le monde qui nous entoure. Insouciance, métamorphose, adaptation, chance et dextérité aideront le têtard à bondir un jour comme une joyeuse mélodie.
« Haunted Polliwog » est libre et respire autrement, il invite l'auditeur vers une forme de temporalité naturelle inspirée du rythme des saisons. Les compositions, comme des cartes simplifiées, guident notre voyage dans un paysage toujours changeant et formé d’improvisations collectives permanentes. Sans prise de tête, certains morceaux invitent à rire devant l’absurdité du monde et d’autres à gouter sa beauté dans toutes ses contradictions.
Bart Defoort
Victor Da Costa Quartet
27 February 2022 E 20:00
Bart Defoort - tenor sax
Victor Da Costa - guitar
Victor Foulon - double bass
Armando Luongo - drums
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Punk Kong
6 March 2022 E 20:00
Viktor Perdieus - sax
Grégoire Tirtiaux - sax
Ruben Verbruggen - sax
Giotis Damianidis - guitar
João Lobo - drums
Edgy guitar, powerful drums and three hyper dynamic saxophones, a special instrumentation that creates a unique sound with songs that blend Jazz, Psychedelic rock, African Blues and improvised music into a remarkable amalgam
Raf Vertessen Quartet (NY)
13 March 2022 E 20:00
Adam O’Farrill - trumpet
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Raf Vertessen - drums
Nick Dunston - bass
Web Site
Eindelijk kan Raf nu zijn geprezen debuut op plaat aan het publiek deftig voorstellen met deze Europese ‘LOI’ tour. De muziek van LOI is sterk beïnvloed door de progressieve jazz van the New Thing van de jaren '60 tot de inspirerende free-improv scene uit Europa, tot de vruchtbare creatieve muziekgemeenschap uit het Amerika van nu. Die smeltpot verraadt een muzikale trip vol energie met heel wat sonische mogelijkheden maar heeft ook een los, aanlokkelijk after hours kantje
Roskam jazz concerts
Robbie and the Pastrami family (NY/BE)
20 March 2022 E 20:00
Robbie Pastrami - saxophones
Nicky Pastrami - double bass
Tony Pastrami - drums
Web Site
Meaty NYC jazz with a bite on a hero sandwich! (vegetarian alternatives available)
Bodies
27 March 2022 E 20:00
Alejandra Borzyk - saxophone
Lara Humbert - keys
Mateusz Malcharek - bass
Elie Gouleme - drums
Web Site
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MATTS 4et
3 April 2022 E 20:00
Giovanni Di Carlo - guitar
Filippo Bianchini - tenor sax
Victor Foulon - double bass
Armando Luongo - drums
New 4et made by some of the best musicians of the international scene. The repertoire is a mix of original music and new standards from contemporary jazz composers as Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Kurt Rosenwinkel and others. Contemporary Jazz with a lot of swing and energy.
Martin Salemi Quartet
10 April 2022 E 20:00
Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone
Martin Salemi - keyboards
Boris Schmidt - double bass
Daniel Jonkers - drums
After releasing his second album in trio with Boris Schmidt on double bass and Daniel Jonkers on drums, Martin Salemi invites Sylvain Debaisieux on saxophone to play a new set of tunes, for a music based on freedom, hypnotic grooves, intricate melodies and cinematic atmospheres.
Influenced by the music of Keith Jarrett, Gerald Clayton, Ben Wendel, Esbjorn Svensson and ADHD...
Bodem
17 April 2022 E 20:00
'Bodem is een nieuw trio dat eigen muziek speelt geïnspireerd door onder andere jazz. De band bestaat uit Anke Verslype op drums, Willem Malfliet op gitaar en Adia Vanheerentals op sax en compositie. De lyrische composities zijn een vertrekpunt om verschillende klanken te exploreren.'
Moanin’ Birds
24 April 2022 E 20:00
Tom Bourgeois - sax, bass clarinet
Fil Caporali - double bass
Guests:
Dorian Dumont - piano
Lionel Beuvens - drums
You Tube
In this lavishly singular album, Tom Bourgeois (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet) and Fil Caporali (upright bass) use all of their melodic and rhythmic freedom to create a rich musical discussion with a wide range of sound textures, harmonic colour and counterpoint. This spirited duo delivers an authentic experience of rich acoustic virtuosity. Quirky, raw and completely mesmerising.
Méandres(Fr)
International Jazz Day
30 April 2022 E 20:00
Fabien Genais – Alto sax, voice
Emmanuel Cremer - cello, FX
Uli Wolters - Tenor sax, keys, laptop
Three musicians with the same desire and pleasure to share their creations. Méandres is part of a musical current expressing itself without cleavage, mixing the electonic with the acoustic. He easily combines genres to create a contemporary eclecticism style. A rich, intense and sincere music develops then. Sweet intoxicating melodies and angry cries follow one another.
The original compositions reflect an era and a state of mind always in movement.
Lara Humbert Quartet
1 May 2022 E 20:00
Lara Humbert - piano, compositions
Amèle Metlini - violin
Benjamin Sauzereau - guitar
Gaspard Sicx - drums
«Autour d’un répertoire de compositions originales de la pianiste Lara Humbert, ce quartet de musique improvisée vous emmène dans une atmosphère à la croisée du jazz, de la pop et de la musique classique. L’alliage atypique des sons du violon (Amèle Metlini),de la guitare électrique (Benjamin Sauzereau), de la batterie (Gaspard Sicx), et du piano ( Lara Humbert), nous fait voyager dans leur premier répertoire intitulé « Pinède », faisant référence au nom d’une plage semées de pins, et aux airs du sud, dans les Alpes françaises. »
Hi Hawaii
8 May 2022 E 20:00
Jens Bouttery - vocals, drums, keys
Lennart Heyndels - vocals, bass, modular
2 musical epicureans present popsongs with delirious outbursts. Hi Hawaii’s Jens Bouttery & Lennart Heyndels bring an homage to everyday life by means of self-irony, honesty and grandiose household drama. Their live performances have a wild reputation with a crazy sauce of modular analogue synths, spicy samples and untamed vocals on top of their interlocked bass & drum-vaganza.
For their debut album “The List” released in March 2020 on W.E.R.F.-records, they extended their sound with horns, flutes and strings to blend in with the modular synths they joyfully tweak. The result is an unrestrained personal voyage with the aura of a pinball machine that might make you dance, laugh and cry at the same time.
Suura
15 May 2022 E 20:00
Benjamin Hermans - clarinet, sax
Stan Maris - accordion, compositions
Nicolas Van Belle - guitar, compositions
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double Bass, composition
Suura is an acoustic quartet that was created by the musical wanderings of Nicolas Van Belle. For quite some time Suura has been exploring the borders of
improvisation, free improvisations, textures, silence and acoustic reverberations. As a band they focussed on developing their own group sound. In this process throughout the years, were they assisted by Brice Soniano, Joachim Badenhorst, Bert Cools and Frederik Leroux.
Gratitude Trio
22 May 2022 E 20:00
Jeroen Van Herzeele - tenor sax,
EWI, modular synth
Alfred Vilayleck - electric bass
Louis Favre - drums, vocals
Sur fond de lignes de basse sexy et de percus dansantes, la musique se développe, aventureuse, avec ses souvenirs coltraniens, sa puissance, sa folie, son groove, mais aussi sa rêverie et ses voyages spatio-psychédéliques. Une musique riche et aventureuse à écouter en boucle.
Après 12 ans d'existence, le trio bruxellois sortira son 4ème album en septembre prochain !
Bbung
Brussels Jazz Weekend
27 May 2022 E 22:00
Jérôme Castin - guitar, compositions
Pierre-Antoine Savoyat - trumpet
Dylan Marey - piano
Joos Vandueren - saxophone tenor
Felix De Clerck - bass
Davy Palumbo - percussion
Thomas Dimmers - drums
Oscillant entre jazz-fusion, funk, hip-hop, et world music, BBUNG est un groupe de 7 musiciens wallons et flamands qui aspire à allier une musique à la fois sincère et viscérale. Avec son univers mêlant arrangements léchés et improvisations furieuses, il s’adresse aux amateurs de jazz et de groove tant bien qu’à un public néophyte qui souhaite s’immerger dans cette musique et danser.
Bestiaal
Brussels Jazz Weekend
28 May 2022 E 22:00
Sebastiaan Vekeman - drums & compositions
Jakob Haghebaert - guitar
Cyrille Obermüller - double bass
De jazz van Bestiaal kan behoorlijk potent uit de hoek komen. Originaliteit en eigenzinnigheid waren altijd al kernwaarden voor jazzmuzikanten, maar hier zijn ze vanzelfsprekende onderdelen van een frappant koppig karakter. De ongrijpbaarheid van Bestiaal is grotendeels te danken aan de composities van drummer Sebastiaan Vekeman, die wel nog verankerd zijn in de klassieke jazztaal, maar een loopje nemen met de conventies. Zo waren de composities op ‘Absoluut’ (2016) en ‘Inenen’ (2018) ook geen klassieke structuren met een vertrouwde kop en een staart als uitroepteken, maar een vrijgeleide om verhalen te vertellen die enkel hun eigen, dwarse logica volgen. Net zoals dat bij het nieuwe album ‘Het Deert’ het geval is.
Max Johnson Trio (NY)
Brussels Jazz Weekend
29 May 2022 E 20:00
Virtuoso Double Bassist and Composer Max Johnson presents his newest trio with Anna Webber (saxophone, flute), and Michael Sarin (drumset), performing music from their new forthcoming album "Orbit of Sound". Between the three of them, they have worked with artists such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Jen Shyu, William Parker, Simon Nabatov, and this project highlights the individual sounds and experiences of these three unique voices, as they interpret this breathtaking music in a singular way that is truly their own.
"Bassist Max Johnson is one of the most prolific and versatile musician/composers in music today" (Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz)
Trio Electric Bongo
5 June 2022 E 20:00
Peter Jacquemyn - double bass
Guiom Vanespen - drums
Grégoire Tirtiaux - saxophone + fx
Web Site
"Trio electric bongo est la version électrique du trio bongo, composé de Guiom Vanespen à la batterie (Gong Extensions, Ocean voices), Peter Jacquemyn, contrebassiste improvisateur dont les aventures musicales ont croisé la route de nombreux musiciens improvisateurs(Evan Parker, Peter Kowald,...) et Grégoire Tirtiaux, saxophoniste tout-terrain (Mâäk, Belgistan, Red Desert orchestra...)"
Bodem
12 June 2022 E 20:00
'Bodem is een nieuw trio dat eigen muziek speelt geïnspireerd door onder andere jazz. De band bestaat uit Anke Verslype op drums, Willem Malfliet op gitaar en Adia Vanheerentals op sax en compositie. De lyrische composities zijn een vertrekpunt om verschillende klanken te exploreren.'
Julien Tassin Duos
19 June 2022 E 20:00
Duo 1:
Julien Tassin - guitar
Patrick Steenaerts - guitar
Duo 2:
Julien Tassin - guitar
Nico Chkifi - drums
Even without using words, Julien Tassin is an outstanding storyteller. He’s the kind of musician who has obviously spent time acquiring technique and skill on the guitar, but who values the expressive power and potential of music above all else. This is not only background music, but it transports the listener, interpreting compositions that shape their own little universes. It is obvious that Julien has immersed himself in a wide variety of influences - blues, soul, rock, roots music - but it all comes together to create a rich and very coherent identity at the same time. During this evening, the guitarist will offer us two very different duos and will resonate with Patrick Steenaerts (guitar) then with Nico Chkifi (drums) to explore new territories in the duo formula. Musical dialogues made of colors and chaotic sounds in the service of a music at the border of jazz, experimental, soundscape and noise.
Nouroog
26 June 2022 E 20:00
Nabou Claerhout - trombone
Yann Lecollaire - clarinet, bass clarinet
Sylvain Debaisieux - tenor sax
Samuel Ber - drums
Jordi Cassagne - double bass
Nouroog communicates through "songs" consisting of chirps, rumbles and growls.
These sound emissions are formed by a repetition of clearly discernible melodic sequences.
The songs vary according to the seasons, but they remain understandable by all.