Trio Misturado
17 September 2023 E 20:00
Renato Martins - percussions, compositions
Benoît Minon - guitare, compositions
Line Daenen - flutes
Trio Misturado is the encounter of three musicians in love with Brazilian music, improvisation and rhythmic explorations. Carried by the dense, yet light magic flow of percussionist Renato Martins and the warm, enveloping tones of Benoît Minon’s 7 string guitar, Line Daenen on the flute unfolds the aerial and acrobatic melodies of their repertoire, a mixture of compositions and gems of brazilian and latin music.
Filled with diversity, finesse and freedom, their playing oscillates in osmosis between improvisation, counterpoint and written music. A breath of fresh air in perspective !
Hint of Berlin
24 September 2023 E 20:00
Gregor Siedl - tenor sax
Frans van Isacker - alto sax
Benjamin Sauzereau - guitar
Lennart Heyndels - el. bass
Nico Chkifi - drums
HINT OF BERLIN is the happy reunion of 5 long-time collaborators and friends to celebrate the joy of adventurous and spontaneous instant compositions. Gregor Siedl and Nico Chkifi have made an impact on the improv scene with their duo called DOKO. Benjamin Sauzereau is leading a brilliant group Les Chroniques de l'Inutile with Gregor Siedl and Lennart Heyndels. Frans van Isacker is an all-around improviser and the first choice of many groups including Ginger Black Ginger the last group of bass player Yannick Peeters. Those 5 musicians will perform a unique concert playing their hearts out for the love of Music.
Mojo Jojo
1 October 2023 E 20:00
Roeland Celis - electric guitar
Warre Van De Putte - tenor saxophone
Umberto Odone - drums
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass
Mojo Jojo is a Brussels based quartet founded by Emanuel Van Mieghem that invites lyrical melodies that are driven by deeply rooted pulsations.
They discovered that they have a very strong and dynamic connection that translates itself both on a personal and a musical level.
Roskam jazz concerts
Gaspard Sicx invites
8 October 2023 E 20:00
Jeroen Van Herzeele - saxophone
Lara Humbert - piano
Matteo Mazzu - electric bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
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Come and enjoy this one time only band, they'll play tunes by Ornette Coleman, Paul Motian, Thelonious Monk and, among others, original compositions by the drummer Gaspard Sicx.
Tao Yu
15 October 2023 E 20:00
‘Tao Yu’ ( same as the project name ) she’s a saxophonist and composer from south China. she graduated from Koninklijk conservatory of Brussel in 2023, she met her band members in Brussel and after a perfect corporation in her MIM, they decided to develop this project together.
She has a different kind of inspiration from her depth understood to the life, the certain style will not be define on her music, ‘Tao Yu’ is the sound of herself.
Alejandra Borzyk
acoustic quartet
22 October 2023 E 20:00
Alejandra Borzyk - saxophones, compositions
Leonard Steigerwald - piano
Federico Stocchi - doublebass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
Under the influence of artists from the contemporary jazz scene, such as Aaron Parks, Mark Turner or Harmen Fraanje, the bandleader of this quartet writes her music playing with colorful harmonies, floating within a large sonic spectrum of acoustic textures. When performing together, these four musicians navigate between strong melodies full of character and freely improvised sounds.
Dancing With Don
29 October 2023 E 20:00
This is a jazz trio that improvises and plays 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. From a home session, recorded without pretension, came an album, released in 2022 by Robalo. 'Live' the trio comes in different shapes, sometimes acoustic and totally improvised, sometimes electric and playing songs from its members original repertoire.
Salemi / Savoyat
Caporali / Aurand
5 November 2023 E 20:00
Pierre-Antoine Savoyat - trumpet/flugelhorn
Fil Caporali - double bass
Martin Salemi - piano
Raphaël Aurand - drums, compositions
Raphaël Aurand est un batteur français basé à Bruxelles depuis 2020 ou il étudie au Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, aujourd'hui étudiant à la Zürcher Hochschule der Künste à Zürich il est de passage à Bruxelles pour un concert au Roskam. Pour cette occasion il s'entoure de quelques uns de ses musiciens préférés :
Pierre-Antoine Savoyat (trompette) qu'il a rencontré au Koninklijk Conservatorium ainsi que de Martin Salemi (pianiste) et de Fil Caporali (contrebasse).
Tous les quatre ils joueront de la musique originale signée du batteur, ainsi que de nouveaux arrangements de musique diverses.
Stéphane Payen (fr)
Tom Rainey (us)
Sylvain Debaisieux (be)
12 November 2023 E 20:00
Stéphane Payen - alto saxophone
Tom Rainey - drums
Sylvain Debaisieux - tenor saxophone
Voilà 15 ans que ces deux improvisateurs passionnés se retrouvent régulièrement pour de nouvelles aventures. Après le quintet « Progressive Patriots » de Hasse Poulsen, le groupe « All Set » (codirigé par le saxophoniste et Ingrid Laubrock) ou encore le trio avec Marc Ducret, c’est aujourd’hui en duo (ou plutôt en trio) que nous les retrouverons dans le cadre de leur tournée d'automne ; ils nous proposeront une musique totalement improvisée, nourrie par toutes les formes de jeux qu’ils ont expérimenté au travers de leurs différentes collaborations. Pour cette soirée, ils ont aussi décidé d'inviter Sylvain Debaisieux !
Ben Sluijs Trio
19 November 2023 E 20:00
Ben Sluijs - sax, flute
Manolo Cabras - double bass
Marek Patrman - drums
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MOTIAN LOVE
26 November 2023 E 20:00
Erwin Vann - tenor saxophone
Nicolas Kummert - tenor saxophone
Vitja Pauwels - guitar
Artan Buleskaj - guitar
Nico Chkifi - drums
MOTIAN LOVE is a brand new quintet that plays compositions by Paul Motian.
The band will soon record an album. Come catch them live before their sound will be captured for the eternity!
Popdragon
3 December 2023 E 20:00
Manuel Roland - electric guitar
Jérémie Mosseray - drums
Emmanuel Loriaux - electric bass
Grégoire Tirtiaux - saxophone, effects
Popdragon est le nouveau groupe des créateurs de Orange Kazoo, de Applause et de la fanfare du Belgistan
.Des 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.
Grounds
10 December 2023 E 20:00
Maxime Dereux - sax, flute, composition
Robin Couderc - contrebasse
Marius Rabbe - trombone
Paolo Rezze - guitare, violoncelle
Elie Goulème - batterie
Influencé par le rock progressif, le jazz moderne et les musiques du mondes, GROUNDS est le résultat d’une rencontre unique entre des musiciens provenant d’horizons très divers. Entre grooves entraînant , mélodies léchées et improvisations, le groupe propose une musique originale et organique portée par les compositions du saxophoniste Maxime Dereux.
Ee_Collective
17 December 2023 E 20:00
Ee - sax & EWI
Chaeyeon Lee - keys & synths
Diogo Alexandre - drums
Robin Lisandru Couderc - bass
Ee_Collective is a jazz improv-based quartet comprised of four musicians who pursue avant-garde music in a somewhat wild and intense yet still artistic manner. The saxophonist Hyung Jin Lee, drummer Diogo Alexandre, pianist Chae Yeon Lee, and bassist Robin Lisandru Couderc form this Brussels-based project. Through composition and performance, they express various styles with new interpretations that highlight their individual differences and similarities, all while sharing a common passion. They are capable of delivering a performance that is never dull.
Natasha Vew Quartet
14 January 2024 E 20:00
Natasha Vew - piano, voice, compositions
Elly Brouckmans - alto saxophone
Jim Monneau - double bass
Pierre Hurty - drums
Belgian pianist Natasha Vew invites you to discover her creative universe through her lyrical neo-hardbop compositions. After completing the recording of an album set to be released in 2024, her team will take you on a journey through shared influences, including Sean Jones, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter or Avishai Cohen. Her music is open and puts improvisation and interaction between musicians at the forefront. Natasha's deep and warm touch will transport you to a realm where each note unfolds a story, and emotions resonate in fascinating harmony.
Macondo Trio
21 January 2024 E 20:00
Sylvain Debaisieux - saxophone
Federico Stocchi - bass
Angelo Moustapha - drums
MACONDO takes the audience to a place where time is relative, where cycles intertwine and melodies remain anchored in bodies and minds. Musicians come together to share, dialogue and connect. The fusion of energies is transmitted through captivating grooves, repetitive motifs and boundless improvisations. History repeats itself, and is never the same. And things take on their full meaning when the listener, open-minded and attentive, lets himself be carried away by the surging wave of music.
Ola Tunji
28 January 2024 E 20:00
Ornella Noulet - saxophone
Roman Raynaud - guitar
Loic Lengagne - piano
Scott Cizhou Huang - double bass
Egon Wolfson - drums
"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.
The Return of the Pastramies 2 (NY/FR/BE)
4 February 2024 E 20:00
Robby Pastrami - saxophones
Nicky Pastrami - double bass
Tony Pastrami - drums
The notorious Pastrami family will be back again at café Roskam. Come listen to this mysterious though familiar sounding band! Let yourself be carried away on the wings of the beautiful saxophone (playing) of tenor and soprano saxophonist Robby Pastrami. (Fellow saxophone gear nerds know which type of saxophone and which player comes with this).
Meaty (but vegan!) NYC jazz with a bite on a hero sandwich!
Transfiguring Photograms
11 February 2024 E 20:00
Andrej Thompson - saxophone
Samuel Ber - drums
Piergiorgio Pirro - piano
Nathan Wouters - double bass
For this ensemble one body of work has been created thus far called Embracing Asymmetry which will be recorded in December 2023. The work focuses on the transitional process of improvising between two sound objects. Here the performer is improvising variations of a composed object whilst simultaneously seeking to slowly introduce a new composed element. A photogram is photographic technique that produces a negative shadow image. The transformation of a real object into a shadow is analogous to the transformation from a composed sound object into an improvised variation. Embracing Asymmetry also explores post-colonial identity through the intersection of reality, delusion and the incomprehensible.
Forest3io
18 February 2024 E 20:00
Jeroen Van Herzeele - saxophone
Lieven Venken - drums
Géraud Portal - double bass
“Forest3io ” is the result of the meeting of three extremely active musicians on the European jazz scene. Lieven Venken, an inspired drummer of great musicality, perfected his art in the United States for nearly 20 years, notably alongside the master Billy Hart. Jeroen Van Herzeele, a saxophonist with a powerful and lyrical sound, masters his instrument perfectly, moving the listener to the depths of his soul. Géraud Portal, a double bassist who built his reputation alongside Jacky Terrasson's trio, and more recently alongside the American saxophone legend Gary Bartz. Forest3io creates unique music, composed of original pieces and rearrangements of standards, with each performance."
Sicx-Sacalxot quartet
25 February 2024 E 20:00
André Sacalxot (US) - saxophone
Lara Humbert - piano
Jim Monneau - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
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Gaspard and André met in the United States working together in the band Fievel is Glauque. They became good pals and now André came down to visit.
They will play some of their tunes alongside the French pianist Lara Humbert and the French bass player Jim Monneau.
Just Another Foundry (DE)
feat. Alberto///Uranes
3 March 2024 E 20:00
Jonas Engel - sax
Florian Herzog - bass
Anthony Greminger - drums
Marc Alberto - live processing
Jonatan Uranes - live processing
“Courage for the edge and the non-lovely in the intensity-filled performance of the trio and its excellent interplay”
- Roland Spiegel, Bavarian public radio (BR)
“This is what the future of German Jazz looks like.”
- Oliver Hochkeppel, South German public newspaper (SZ)
“Their confident playing with melodic finesse and rustic violence both, won the band several prices”
- Uli Lemke, JazzThing
Umami Quartet
10 March 2024 E 20:00
Our music ranges from dreamy ballads to raw grooves, experimenting with opening up the fixed song structures. Through improvisation and the use of electronics and effects, we try to deconstruct the compositions and thus keep challenging ourselves. This creates a very tactile and delicate interaction between the musicians that results in a unique sound, where the written score becomes just a vague outline of the song.
IBIYEWA
17 March 2024 E 20:00
Born in the corners of Brussels, this band is the brainchild of Angelo Moustapha. Beninese drummer recently arrived in the Belgian capital, Angelo is already a cornerstone of the creative scene, and a protégé of Philip Catherine and Lionel Loueke.
Think of the rhythms of a Beninese master drummer, the dancing harmonies of a Madagascan guitarist, and the melodic improvisations of a Jazz saxophonist in love with the equator. "Here we are" in Yoruba, IBIYEWA is a laboratory born of
encounters in Brussels, at the crossroads of traditional music and creative innovation.
I’m not done cooking
24 March 2024 E 20:00
I’m not done cooking » est le nouveau projet de la pianiste Lara Humbert. Ce groupe à pour but de faire évoluer pour chaque concert sa formation. Après une première représentation en Octet, les musiciens vous interpréterons pour ce concert une version pour quartet du répertoire. Une musique très personnelle, à venir découvrir en live.
Massot/Florizoone/
Horbaczewski
31 March 2024 E 20:00
Marine Horbaczewski - cello
Michel Massot - tuba, euphonium, trombone
Tuur Florizoone - accordion
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Lovers of orchestras, brass bands and carnivals, come and see! In preparation for an upcoming CD recording and an extensive tour, the ever-mature and legendary Massot/Florizoone/horbaczewski will stop by to provide your favorite Sunday evening flight with style, pitfalls and some depth.
On the repertoire: shiningly new compositions and improvisations, balancing between contemporary classical and jazz. In thought, elephants and mice, princes and princesses and overworked civil servants pass the catwalk. Schol!
Léa Chiechelski/Stan Maris/Lara Humbert
7 April 2024 E 20:00
Lara humbert - piano
Léa Chiechelski - saxophone
Stan Maris - accordion
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Après une semaine de résidence, ces trois musiciens vous proposerons le résultat de leur recherche sur la limite entre musique écrite et musique improvisée. Le répertoire proposé est un mélange de leur différents univers respectifs.
The Miracle
14 April 2024 E 20:00
Giovanni Di Domenico - Hohner Pianet
Giotis Damianidis - bass, guitar
João Lobo - drums
The Miracle" is a holy trio that brings out a pure magma of an ecclesiastical free funk!
Erwin Vann Trio
21 April 2024 E 20:00
Michel Hatzigeorgiou - bass
Dré Pallemaerts - drums
Erwin Vann - saxophone
Erwin Vann Trio feat. Michel Hatzigeorgiou and Dré Pallemaerts
The Erwin Vann Trio traces its origins back to 1989. Over the years, they performed on numerous stages in Belgium and abroad. Their collaboration has yielded the albums ‘Some Sounds’ (1990) and ‘Eleven’ (1995). Their live performance will feature a selection of original compositions, offering a nostalgic glimpse into their musical journey. This is a rare opportunity to witness the synergy of these three master musicians.
Albani/ Luppi/
Groppe/ Patrman
28 April 2024 E 20:00
Eleonora Albani - voice
Riccardo Luppi - sax and flute
Simon Groppe - piano
Marek Patrman - drums
Interactive instinctive Quartet playing modern jazz, originals, and the best of jazz Standards.
Jordi Grognard Trio
invites Lynn Cassiers
5 May 2024 E 20:00
Manolo Cabras - bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
Jordi Grognard - sax, reeds
Lynn Cassiers - voice, FX
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New directions in music!
The original unit of the trio can already count on many years of sessioning and playing together. Jordi's compositions, originals -mostly by Monk and Ornette Coleman- standards, free impro, the band's repertoire is quite broad, always adapting to the vibe and to the acoustic space of venues. To spice things up, I (as Jordi the leader)/we are delighted to invite another partner-in-crime, the talented Lynn Cassiers, who will add her pristine voice and spaced-out electronic set to the mix!
Nautilus
12 May 2024 E 20:00
Arnaud Guichard - tenor sax
Leonard Steigerwald - piano
Otto Kint - double bass
Mattia Gobbo - drums
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Nautilus is four musicians embarking on a vessel exploring their inner self.The music reflects certain conditions or feelings one might encounter in their life. A personal interpretation of such emotions or struggles. Life is unpredictable, we all must face what's coming our way, good or bad. The Nautilus imagined by Jules Verne is an image to explore and escape within the wonders of the inner self
Blind Dogs
19 May 2024 E 20:00
Furmi Gomez - saxophone
Andrew Moreno - guitar
John Ho - bass
Gio Giardina - drums (special guest)
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AVA Trio (IT/TR/NL)
24 May 2024 E 22:00
Brussels Jazz Weekend
Giuseppe Doronzo - sax, bagpipes, flutes
Esat Ekincioglu - double bass
Pino Basile - tamburello, framedrums, cupaphon
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After successful past years with more than 120 concerts throughout China and Europe, three critically acclaimed albums and a highly praised showcase at Jazzahead 2023; AVA Trio sets sail back in time in the Mediterranean. Their fourth album "The Great Green" released on March 8, 2024 on Tora Records - takes us to Ancient Greece; an era in which the colour "blue" did not exist. AVA Trio stretches the boundaries of jazz, improvised and maqam music, creating a unique approach we define as "Mediterranean Avantgarde".
Lone Vouching Poet
25 May 2024 E 22:00
Brussels Jazz Weekend
Lennart Van Praet - vocals, keys
Jeroen Capens - tenor saxophone
PJ Seaux - bass guitar
Louis Favre - drums
Since a good five years, LVP has been growing and harvesting songs at a steady, laid-back pace. They have been performed at times, in various settings, with different musicians, though always occasionally, fleetingly. Now it's time to come home, and dock the spaceship of artistic imagination in a beautiful place. Old camaraderie does not rust, and neither does musical kinship: LVP has rekindled the fire with three top-notch players and close friends, in order to lend a decisive boost to his ripened batch of sing-song-stories. Here's a deep melancholy that refuses to wallow in the modern-day despair of fearfulness, doubt, and identity-craving, but wants to connect and feed the light as well as the darkness through a deeply felt humanity. With an unabating life-force, these songs celebrate fragility and beauty, firmly pleading for hope, love and understanding. Expect to be swaddled in warm sonorities and swayed by a deeply earthed groove, straight from the underbelly.
VIVA - The Soil
26 May 2024 E 20:30
Brussels Jazz Weekend
‘VIVA’ is a double-instrument ensemble formed by YuTing Li experiencing sound design and sonic textures, with touches of delicate melodies floating on the immense sound palette.
‘VIVA - The Soil’ is a variation of the ensemble researching the sonic spectrum of percussion and its interaction with the colors of harmony.