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Gabriel Moraes invites (NY/BE/BR/PA/ES/PT/NL)

29 September 2024  E  20:00

Gabriel Moraes (BE/BR) - drums

Ton Felices (NL/ES) - double bass

Miguel Valente (NL/PT) - saxophone

Aquiles Navarro (NY/PA) - trumpet

You Tube

Gabriel Moraes is a Brazilian jazz drummer, born in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais. A self-taught musician, he began his musical journey playing drums at church. At the age of 13, Gabriel moved to Portugal, where he was first introduced to jazz at 15, a genre that would deeply shape his career.

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Punk Kong
Album release

6 October 2024  E  20:00

Giotis Damianidis - guitar
Grégoire Tirtiaux - alto & baritone sax
Viktor Perdieus - tenor & baritone sax
Ruben Verbruggen - alto & baritone sax

João Lobo - drums

You Tube

Giotis Damianidis’s Punk Kong is coming back after a golden silence of six years with undoubtedly their most complete work in terms of composition, arrangement and execution. The bass-less ensemble offers a perfect blend of Free Jazz, Psychedelic Rock, dreamy Drone Blues music that flows over as a clean transparent river into the mountains! Their Third album, “Same but Different” is coming out in October 2024 on the Belgian almighty Label, WERF records! Worth mentioning that part of the album is the original score of the film of Italian director Davide Belotti, “Vita Altra” composed by Giotis Damianidis.

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Alejandra Borzyk
invites

13 October 2024  E  20:00

Alejandra Borzyk - sax, compositions

Simon Groppe - keyboards 

Cyrille Obermüller - double bass 

Diogo Alexandre - drums 

SoundCloud

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OLA TUNJI

20 October 2024  E  20:00

Ornella Noulet - saxophones

Roman Raynaud - guitar

Loic Lengagne - piano

Anthony Jouravsky - double bass

Egon Wolfson - drums

Bandcamp

"The music speaks for itself", said John Coltrane.

The new Ola Tunji quintet is moving in this direction, where musical interplay becomes a powerful and expressive whole.

Its members started playing together before summer 2023 and then united in the passion that each feels towards the spiritual and musical life of Coltrane. A path to follow seemed to form itself, like a vision shared through every feeling. What they play bring them back to a deeper humanity in the music.

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Codus 
Project April 29

27 October 2024  E  20:00

Chaeyeon Lee - synths and keys
Robin Lisandro Couderc - bass 
Hyungjin Ee - saxophone, synth

Web Site

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Robbie and the
Pastrami family 

(NY/FR/BE)

3 November 2024  E  20:00

Robbie Pastrami - saxophones

Nicky Pastrami - double bass

Tony Pastrami - drum

Web Site

A yearly tradition seems to be installed: Robbie Pastrami and his illuster family band will stop by Roskam again to play a concert with their legendary and slightly mysterious band. Fans and jazz connaisseurs know that this concert will be one not to miss!!!

And saxophone nerds may get a hint of whom to expect from the drawing of the saxophone!!!!

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Y(h)ES! and... 
(FR/LU/BE)

10 November 2024  E  20:00

Yo Hes - alto saxophone

Jean-Jacques Mailliet - Violin

Robert Jukic - Double bass

Oscar Georges -Drums

You Tube

Yo Hes brings some Brussels, Paris and Luxemburg folks together to try out some crazy tunes... YhES!

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Saturno Santos (NL)

17 November 2024  E  20:00

Gabriel de Oliveira - e guitar, voice, ableton 

Helena Casella - voice

Zenzele Mthembu-Salter - e bass 

tba - sax

You Tube

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Dave Gisler Trio (CH)

24 November 2024  E  20:00

Dave Gisler - guitar
Raffaele Bossard - bass
Lionel Friedl - drums

You Tube

Dave Gisler enjoys an excellent reputation as an idiosyncratic architect of sound on the electric guitar. With the trio, he presents a dazzling array of possibilities for genre-bending music that is at home in jazz, but also draws on rock, punk and noise.

The trio's first recording, "Rabbits on the Run," was released in 2018 on Intakt Records. It laid the track for a musical departure that on the one hand intensified the trio and on the other hand also expanded it to a quartet or quintet.

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Jacky Liu Project

1 December 2024  E  20:00

Jacky(Yanfeng Liu) - tenor sax & EWI

Edoardo Cimino - guitar

Nathan Bruel - bass

John de Martino - drums

You Tube

The members of the Jacky Liu Quartet come from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. They come together to discover new sounds and ways of playing and to fully enjoy the different feelings that music brings during the performance. 

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Gratitude Trio

8 December 2024  E  20:00

Louis Favre - drums

Alfred Vilayleck - bass

Jeroen Van Herzeele - sax and electronics

You Tube

Gratitude Trio is this Belgian/French band based in Brussels known for their strength and sensitivity that opens people's hearts.
The music of this power trio is tinged with spacy electronic sounds, african rhythms, sexy grooves, endless trances, sensitive ballads, crazy free jazz and a large dose of unpredictable.
Gratitude exists since 2010 and has performed in prestigious venues in Europe such as Jazz Middelheim, La Fête de la Musique in Liege, Handelsbeurs, Brussels Jazz Marathon, Tournée des Lundis d'Hortense, Jazz Station, Pelzer Jazz Club, Zottegem Jazz Festival, Porgy and Bess in Vienna, Belgian embassies in Amman and Berlin, Ham Sessions in Ghent, Het STUK, Jazz In het Park Festival, AJMI in Avignon, Koa Jazz Festival, Jazzèbre Festival in Perpignan, Jazzdor in Strasbourg ...

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Popdragon

15 December 2024  E  20:00

Grégoire Tirtiaux  Sax & Electronique

Manuel Roland - Guitare

Manu Loriaux - Basse électrique

Jérémie Mosseray - Batterie & Percussions

You Tube

Eastern Rock and Electronic JazzDes rythmiques hypnotiques où batteries kraut et percussions orientales tournent autour de basses électriques saturées. Des contre-chants de guitares en échos. Des saxophones transformés par des effets électroniques. Un déluge de saxophone baryton.

Quatre musiciens tout en transe électrique et en danses organiques.

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The Instant Composed
Family Dinner
(FR/TW/NL/BE)

22 December 2024  E  20:00

Audrey Lauro - alto saxophone

Benjamin Sauzereau - guitar

Zoïa Tescher - drums

Yu-Ting Li - piano & effects

Karen van Schaik - saxophone

Bandcamp

In this dark time of the year 5 great Brussels based improvisers gather to play together and connect with you and each other through their music. Whether you will spend Christmas alone, whether you are obliged to hang out with your horror-family-in-law, maybe you are mentally preparing for a marathon of Christmas dinners with all the sides of your composed family, or maybe your family lives on another continent and going to see them is too expensive...  Everyone is welcome at "The Instant Composed Family Dinner." Let's blow off some steam together before getting through this so called "Most Wonderful Time of the Year". Let's all gather for this unique moment of music and love!

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Cousseau-Cerovecki Quartet

29 December 2024  E  20:00

Laurence Cousseau - alto flute

Clément Cerovecki - piano

Robin Lisandru - double bass

Gaspard Sicx - drums

Bandcamp

Dans l'album Crépuscule à bascule, Laurence Cousseau (flûte alto) et Clément Cerovecki (piano) explorent les liens entre musique classique du XXème et jazz. Le duo invite Robin Lisandru (contrebasse) et Gaspard Sicx (batterie) pour revisiter en version quartet ce répertoire et aussi proposer quelques nouvelles compositions.

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Bart Defoort Trio

5 January 2025  E  20:00

Bart Defoort - tenor sax

Jos Machtel  - double bass

Jan De Haas - drums

You Tube

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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

Web Site

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.

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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

YouTube

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.

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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

SoundCloud

‘’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. 

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Casimir Liberski ReTRio 

2 February 2025  E  20:00

Casimir Liberski - piano

Janos Bruneel - double bass

Diogo Alexandre - drums

Web Site

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.

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Taoyu Quartet

9 February 2025  E  20:00

Simon Groppe - keyboards

Diogo Alexandre - drums

Jim Monneau - bass

Tao Yu - saxophone 

SoundCloud

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! 

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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

SoundCloud

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.

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Gaspard Sicx Trio

23 February 2025  E  20:00

Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone

Manolo Cabras - double bass

Gaspard Sicx - drums and compositions

Bandcamp

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.

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Alejandra Borzyk
invites

2 March 2025  E  20:00

Aquiles Navarro - trumpet

Benoît Quentin - double bass

Diogo Alexandre - drums

Alejandra Borzyk - saxophone

SoundCloud

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Max Johnson 3
(US)

9 March 2025  E  20:00

Neta Raanan - tenor saxophone

Max Johnson - bass

Eliza Salem - drums

Bandcamp

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.

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Matoka Quartet

16 March 2025  E  20:00

Yarno Hoedemaekers - piano, compositions

Elly Brouckmans - alto sax, compositions

Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass

Umberto Odone - drums

Bandcamp

Matoka proposes original compositions based on a strong rhythmic foundation and fresh interplay. 

Expect deep grooves and impressionistic collective improvisations.

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Terpsichore

23 March 2025  E  20:00

Geoffrey Fiorese - piano

Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone

Jordi Cassagne - contrebasse

Théo Lanau - batterie

SoundCloud

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.

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La Drave (FR)

30 March 2025  E  20:00

Zdeněk Tománek - Saxophone soprano
Vincent Audusseau - Rhodes, harmoniums
Basile Tuauden - Basse électrique
Zoïa Tescher - Batterie

YouTube

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.

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Barbastelle

6 April 2025  E  20:00

Yann Lecollaire - clarinet
Hanne de Backer - sax, clarinet
Adèle Viret - cello
Samuel Ber - drums
Jordi Cassagne - bass, composition

YouTube

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.

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Lara Humbert Trio

13 April 2025  E  20:00

Audrey Lauro - saxophone

Arthur Delaleu - guitar

Lara Humbert - clavier 

Bandcamp

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.

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Jordi Grognard Trio

20 April 2025  E  20:00

Jordi Grognard - tenor sax, clarinets

Manolo Cabras - double bass

Gaspard Sicx - drums

Bandcamp

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! 

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Sitardust

27 April 2025  E  20:00

Joachim Lacrosse - sitar & composition

Carlo Strazzante - percussions

Balakumar Paramalingam - percussions

Merryl Havard - cello

Frédéric Becker - saxophone

WebSite

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).

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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

YouTube

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.  

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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

YouTube

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.

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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

WebSite

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.

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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

WebSite

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.
 

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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

YouTube

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. 

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Benjamin Herman Trio (NL)
Brussels Jazz Weekend

25 May 2025  E  20:30

Benjamin Herman - saxophones, flute, synths

Thomas Pol - bass

Jimmi Hueting - drums

WebSite

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.

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