Roskam jazz concerts
Bart Defoort Trio
5 January 2025 E 20:00
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Dancing with Don
12 January 2025 E 20:00
Lynn Cassiers - voice and electronics
Manolo Cabras - double bass
João Lobo - drums
This is a jazz trio that improvises songs in a very original way. Besides being three excellent musicians, Lynn, Manolo and João have been collaborating for about 20 years in various constellations. They have their own unique improvisational language, carved and polished over the years.
SCP-055 (FR)
19 January 2025 E 20:00
Loup Godfroy - drums
Sami Foukani-Descamps - double bass
Hugo Van Rechem - violin and mandola
Benjamin Garson - electric guitar
The music of SCP – 055 is hybrid: free and spontaneous by its long phases of free improvisation; dancing and powerful by its rhythmic compositions.
Experimental and noisy, it is influenced by post-rock, repetitive music, noise and free jazz, oscillating between contemplation and exaltation.
Ashesash Jazz Quintet
(TW/IT/BE)
26 January 2025 E 20:00
ShaoHuan HUNG - Sheng
Joos Vandeuren - tenor saxophone
Machiel Heremans - guitar
Federico Stocchi - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
‘’Ashesash Jazz Quintet’’ was found in 2018, gathered together with international musicians from Taiwan, Italy and Belgium based in Brussels.
Their music contains modern jazz and free improvisation, the influences of ECM records, mostly plays the music composed by the band leader ShaoHuan HUNG.
Casimir Liberski ReTRio
2 February 2025 E 20:00
Born in 1988 in Brussels, Casimir Liberski is a pianist, composer and improviser who made his mark in NYC for about a decade after
graduating from the Berklee College of Music. He decided to move back to Belgium in 2018. An insatiable jack-of-all-trades and bulimic heir to his "gods" Monk, Coltrane, Miles Davis, among the many deities of the colossal repertoire of baroque, classical, modern, jazz, and contemporary music, Casimir is also an obsessive tweaker of vintage analog synthesizers. "A lifetime will not be enough to quench my thirst for music," he says with a smile.
Taoyu Quartet
9 February 2025 E 20:00
Tao is a saxophonist and composer from China. She graduated from the Koninklijk Conservatory of Brussels in 2023, where she met her band members. They formed a band and played for Tao's graduation concert at the Musical Instruments Museum. After that they decided to develop this project, and record their first album in 2024.
In 2024 Tao went back to China and now she is back and looking forward to play music with her band in Brussels again!
Laurence Cousseau
'Les Groseilles de Novembre'
16 February 2025 E 20:00
Laurence Cousseau - alto flute
Luis Miguel Aguilar - bass clarinet
Joseph Nowell - keyboards
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass
Pierre Ferrand - drums
Through her compositions, Laurence Cousseau offers a perspective on a world situated between the real and the dreamlike. Her inspirations blend introspection, fantasized memories of enigmatic landscapes, and works of art and craftsmanship imbued with strong mystical energy. This results in a mix of modesty and irony, meditative trances, and mysterious dissipations. Her work incorporates jazz energy (Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus), colors drawn from the modern classical repertoire, as well as a contemporary jazz language.
23 February 2025 E 20:00
Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone
Manolo Cabras - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums and compositions
Gaspard's music is flowing around his partially fugacious, but mostly solid, and concrete-composed themes mixed with a dose of refined free improvisation. It is a musical experience that offers warmness to the audience and opens various possibilities of a musical dialogue together with a naughty and adventurous sonic sphere. There are two other well-known artists of the jazz and improvised music scene of Belgium as part of his trio; Manolo Cabras on double bass and Sylvain Debaisieux on tenor sax.
2 March 2025 E 20:00
Aquiles Navarro - trumpet
Benoît Quentin - double bass
Diogo Alexandre - drums
Alejandra Borzyk - saxophone
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9 March 2025 E 20:00
Multi-faceted bassist Max Johnson helms a terrific trio... Here and elsewhere, evidence of Johnson's composer's ear surfaces in how cannily he extracts maximum impact from the three voices." - John Sharpe, The New York City Jazz Record.
16 March 2025 E 20:00
Yarno Hoedemaekers - piano, compositions
Elly Brouckmans - alto sax, compositions
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass
Umberto Odone - drums
Matoka proposes original compositions based on a strong rhythmic foundation and fresh interplay.
Expect deep grooves and impressionistic collective improvisations.
23 March 2025 E 20:00
Geoffrey Fiorese - piano
Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone
Jordi Cassagne - contrebasse
Théo Lanau - batterie
Named Terpsichore after the muse of dance, the quartet presents us enchanting, original music heart-warming the audience through long improvisations, memorable melodies and a determined jazz spirit.
Initially created around the Keith Jarret’s American quartet repertoire, the band quickly began to play Geoffrey Fiorese’s original compositions driving the quartet’s music into a very personal sound but always keeping the original spirit. The first album of the band was released in 2021 and elected “jazz revelation” by the French review Jazz Magazine.
30 March 2025 E 20:00
Zdeněk Tománek - Saxophone soprano
Vincent Audusseau - Rhodes, harmoniums
Basile Tuauden - Basse électrique
Zoïa Tescher - Batterie
La Drave est une activité ancienne destinée à accompagner la libre flottaison des troncs d'arbres dans un cour d'eau.
Depuis quelques années, c'est aussi un groupe constitué de quatre ami.e.s rencontré.e.s en Bretagne, et naviguant parmi les airs et les ritournelles d'un imaginaire folklorique intemporel.
Leur musique est généreuse, personnelle, elle s'immisce dans les interstices du jazz, des musiques traditionnelles et improvisées. La texture sonore de la Drave emprunte celle du bois flotté, sculpté par les courants, les vents et les marées.
6 April 2025 E 20:00
Yann Lecollaire - clarinet
Hanne de Backer - sax, clarinet
Adèle Viret - cello
Samuel Ber - drums
Jordi Cassagne - bass, composition
Barbastelle is a musical hybrid combining the sounds of strings and woodwinds with those of impressionist drums, and blending written chamber jazz with the unexpectedness of episodes composed in the moment. It communicates through songs made up of chirps. Its sounds are formed by a repetition of clearly discernible melodic sequences. Its song varies according to the season, but everyone can understand it.
Lara Humbert Trio
13 April 2025 E 20:00
Lara Humbert, Audrey Lauro and Arthur Delaleu will join on stage for the first time, playing original tunes that can instantly melt into borderless improvisations. Three approaches oscillating between raw sound, digital crackles, free phrasing and fleeting harmonies.
Jordi Grognard Trio
20 April 2025 E 20:00
Jordi's Trio is back to Roskam for an evening of acoustic music, interplay and moods suited for a cozy Sunday evening.
The band's connection and long-term collaboration allows a fresh approach to form and repertoire, creating textures & melodies organically.
Expect own personal pieces and who knows, a few originals?
Open your ears to the generous, free-spirited and contagious sounds of the Jordi Grognard Trio!
Sitardust
27 April 2025 E 20:00
Joachim Lacrosse - sitar & composition
Carlo Strazzante - percussions
Balakumar Paramalingam - percussions
Merryl Havard - cello
Frédéric Becker - saxophone
SITARDUST est un projet "Indo-Jazz" porté par le sitariste bruxellois Joachim Lacrosse depuis 2012. Le groupe a beaucoup tourné en Belgique francophone et également en France, aux Pays-bas ou en Inde. SITARDUST a sorti deux albums sur le label liégeois Homerecords : "Sitardust" (2016) et "Sitardust Suites" (2023).
Sweet Warriors
4 May 2025 E 20:00
Heloïse Van Herzeele - voice
Jeroen Van Herzeele - saxophone
Casimir Liberski - piano
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass
Lionel Beuvens - drums
Quel pourrait être le point commun entre Jeff Buckley, Gabriel Fauré, Brel, Jaco Pastorius et Baudelaire? Peut être une capacité à mêler rage de vivre et douceur, énergie tellurique et une certaine mélancolie ou peut être encore de pouvoir mettre une grande force au service de la non violence...C'est en tout cas ces énergies en apparence antagonistes que les Sweet Warriors invoquent au travers d'œuvres de ces artistes et de compositions de Lionel Beuvens pour, grâce à la musique, tenter de trouver une forme de paix dans l'action.
Luismi Aguilar Sextet
11 May 2025 E 20:00
Luismi Aguilar - clarinet
Ornella Noulet - saxophone
Gaspard Mathelin - trumpet
Julien Plateau - piano
Emanuel van Mieghem -double bass
Egon Wolfson - drums
This sextet was formed in tribute to Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) on the 60th anniversary of his death. We revisit the last four years of his life, which were crucial in understanding Dolphy’s legacy and influence. His legacy has continued to resonate since his passing. It is impossible to know what Dolphy might have achieved had he lived beyond 36 years, but what he left behind in such a short time spans multiple lifetimes of monumental creativity.
KCB Try-out Festival
18 May 2025 E 20:00
20h00 Huijun Yi Quartet
Huijun Yi - voice & effects, guzheng
Maxime Dereux - saxophone & electronics
Robin Lisandru Couderc - double bass
Rob Swennen - drums
21h00 Maxime Dereux solo
Maxime Dereux - saxophone & electronics
22h00 Jerry Kuan Trio
Jerry Kuan - piano
Marius Loer - drums
Grigoris Theodoridis - double bass
Tonight will be a mini try-out festival with three bands! Three students of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels will do a try-out for their graduation concert. Come discover some upcoming jazz musicians with their original and highly personal projects!
Huijun Yi
Jun is a singer with a background in jazz and pop music, but she’s always been driven to break down boundaries. From a young age, she trained in the traditional Chinese zither, the Guzheng. As she began incorporating the Guzheng into her music, her delicate melodies and poetic lyrics fused seamlessly with the instrument’s rich, resonant tones. Through experimental improvisation and the integration of jazz and electronic elements, Jun creates an avant-garde sound that effortlessly bridges East and West, tradition and innovation.
Maxime Dereux
Maxime will play a solo set on saxophone, with the use of electronics and extended techniques.
Jerry Kuan
Jerry will bring a set of his personal compositions rooted in modern jazz.
Paper Window
Brussels Jazz Weekend
23 May 2025 E 22:00
Pau Li Liem - piano, voice
Wytske Gratama - acoustic guitar, voice
Marijn van de Ven - double bass
John de Martino- drums
Thomas Sagne - guitar
Paper Window plays songs based on Hans Christian Andersen’s old fairy tales. These fairy tales paint an extraordinary world filled with peculiar creatures and mysteries. Paper Window brings this world to life with their music, and takes you with them in their journey through a world that can be enchanting and playful, but where darkness hides in unexpected places.
Andersen’s fairy tales often have a strong moral, which Paper Window combines with their own interpretation and creativity in their compositions.
Muito Kaballa (DE/BE)
Brussels Jazz Weekend
24 May 2025 E 22:00
Nora Beisel - vocals
Benjamin Schneider - guitar
Jan Janzen - keys
Leonard Gaab - percussions
André van der Heide - drums, percussions
Alice Vande Voorde - bass
Marthe van Droogenbroeck - trumpet, flugelhorn
Tim von Malotki - sax, bass clarinet, flute
Niklas Mündemann - tenor saxophone
With their new album Tomorrow A Flower, Muito Kaballa embarks on another chapter of their sonic journey, picking up where Like A River left off – at the boundaries of genres and conventions. The album is a vibrant manifesto of love and life, a work that is both intimate and expansive, playful and profound, nostalgic and futuristic. Across ten tracks, Muito Kaballa weaves influences from global jazz, Afrobeat, electronic soundscapes, and a touch of untamed experimentalism. The songs effortlessly shift between wild energy, introspective reflection, and ironic humor. They invite listeners to lose themselves in a sound world that resists categorization, yet remains consistently authentic and unifying. The live show for Tomorrow A Flower is a captivating blend of musical spectacle and theatrical staging. Muito Kaballa mesmerizes audiences with boundless energy and their unmistakable stage presence. Each of the ten songs becomes an experience that simultaneously excites, moves, and surprises.
Benjamin Herman Trio (NL)
Brussels Jazz Weekend
25 May 2025 E 20:30
Saxophonist and musical omnivore Benjamin Herman has been one of Holland’s most productive musicians of his generation for over three decades. Aside from thousands of gigs, Benjamin has released over 50 albums as a solo artist and as frontman of his groove-orientated ensemble New Cool Collective. His wonderfully diverse musical output includes straight-ahead jazz, Gypsy jazz, punk jazz, film scores, Afrobeat, Latin music and postmodern interpretations of pieces by Dutch composer Misha Mengelberg, as well as collaborations with vocalists, poets, pop stars, hip-hop artists, and instrumentalists from all over the world. The common thread is his quest for a recognizable, personal sound on the alto saxophone. As usual, his latest album finds him exploring new territory.
Little Fly
28 September 2025 E 20:00
Federico Stocchi - bass, compositions
Yu-Ting Li - piano, effects
Leonard Steigerwald - rhodes, synths
Gaspard Sicx - drums
Little Fly is Federico Stocchi’s new band, a space where he surrounds himself with friends/musicians he loves. Two pianists, Yu-Ting and Lenny, are brought together to create a soundscape exploring the different sides of their instruments, grounded by the abstract and raw drumming of Gaspard.In this environment Federico finds the perfect playground to express himself, navigating the balance between solid bass lines and spontaneous moments of exploration. Their music embraces differences and contrasts, and it’s rooted in connection between the musicians, honesty and playfulness.It’s about growing up without unlearning too much, a nostalgic trip to the future.
QUBE (DE/BE)
5 October 2025 E 20:00
Benjamin Schneider - guitar and composition
Joos Vandueren - tenor saxophone
Wolf Van Gemert - electric bass
Max Hilpert - drums
Bandleader Benjamin Schneider's compositions interweave inner and outer landscapes – sometimes dreamy and vulnerable, sometimes dark and powerful. Combined with their energetic interplay and the spontaneity of their improvisation, the four musicians create their own lyrical to rock sound in the realm of modern jazz. With their debut album "Metamorphosis" and other new pieces, the jazz quartet "Qube" offers a diverse program.The band met during their studies and won the "Talent Award" at the Maastricht Jazz Awards in 2019.
Barbastelle
12 October 2025 E 20:00
Yann Lecollaire - clarinet
Hanne de Backer - sax, bass clarinet
Annemie Osborne - cello
Jordi Cassagne - double bass
Samuel Ber - drums
Barbastelle is a musical hybrid, blending the timbres of strings and woodwinds with impressionistic drumming, merging written chamber jazz with the spontaneity of free improvisation. Echoing Renaissance ‘broken consorts’ and the legacy of artists like Mal Waldron and Eric Dolphy, their music evokes Debussy, Bartok, and Takemitsu’s delicate sonic calligraphy.
Sylvain Debaisieux invites
Diogo Alexandre & Zé Almeida
19 October 2025 E 20:00
Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophones
Zé Almeida - double bass
Diogo Alexandre - drums
Sylvain Debaisieux est un saxophoniste incontournable sur la scène du jazz belge depuis plusieurs années. Il invite ce soir deux phénomènes récemment arrivés sur la scène bruxelloise : le batteur Diogo Alexandre et le contrebassiste Zé Almeida.
Ensemble ils partent à l’exploration de nouveaux territoires, navigant entre eaux calmes et limpides et flots tumultueux qui poussent les trois musiciens dans leurs retranchements. Ils décideront ensemble sur le moment de se diriger vers des îlots, éléments de matière compositionnelle ou de répertoire commun qui leur donneront un nouveau souffle pour repartir à l'aventure.
Mingus Minga Mingum
26 October 2025 E 20:00
Laurence Cousseau - flute
Antonin Busson- trumpet
Lucy Tasker - clarinet
Johannes Eimermacher - alto saxophone
Bruno Grollet - Tenor sax
Yann Lecollaire - bass clarinet
Benjamin Sauzereau - drums
Sophian Bourire - double bass
Clément Cerovecki - piano
Mingus Minga Mingum is a collective of musicians coordinated by Clément Cerovecki, and fully dedicated to the music of composer and double bassist Charles Mingus. The aim is to keep this amazing repertoire alive, that shifts between swing, bebop, blues, gospel, free jazz, and classical influences, while adding a personal touch. In the vein of Duke Ellington’s big band, but with more fury, and chaos, this music, still too rarely performed, is an endless source of inspiration and fun for us.
Double Madness
2 November 2025 E 20:00
Adriana Calvo - alto sax
Elly Brouckmans - alto sax
Caspar Klos - double bass
Raphaël Aurand - drums
Double Madness is a jazz quartet led by the alto saxophonists Adriana Calvo and Elly Brouckmans, with Caspar Klos on double bass and Raphaël Aurand on drums. The group is made up of musicians from Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France who met in Brussels while studying at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and connecting through the city’s active jam session scene. The band started in December 2024 and has been performing regularly around Brussels ever since, playing at various jazz venues and clubs. From the beginning, the idea behind Double Madness was to explore the possibilities of a jazz quartet without a harmonic instrument, giving more space to the two saxophones and a different kind of role to the rhythm section.
ASBEST (NL)
9 November 2025 E 20:00
Asbest is een Rotterdams trio dat jazz als vertrekpunt neemt en genadeloos genres door elkaar schudt. Jelle Roozenburg (gitaar), Jesse Schilderink (saxofoon) en Jimmi Hueting (drums) maken instrumentale muziek die even hard als inventief is. Invloeden lopen van Duke Ellington en Charles Mingus tot Queens of the Stone Age en DJ Rashad.
Don't Tell The Others
16 November 2025 E 20:00
Fang Hsuan-Hui - voice
Maxime Dereux - alto saxophone
Jonas Le Roy - tenor saxophone
Edoardo Cimino - guitar
Chaeyeon Lee - keys
Robin Couderc - double bass
Rob Swennen - drums
A septet balancing intimacy and chaos, soft but restless, blending haunting vocals, uneasy saxophones, fractured piano with a rhythm section teetering between free-jazz and raw groove. "Don't Tell The Others" is a fresh project created by drummer Rob Swennen exploring the intersection of free-jazz, vocals, and storytelling inspired by Kaja Draksler, Ashley Paul, Amok Amor,