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
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.
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
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.
Alejandra Borzyk
invites
13 October 2024 E 20:00
Alejandra Borzyk - sax, compositions
Simon Groppe - keyboards
Cyrille Obermüller - double bass
Diogo Alexandre - drums
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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
"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.
Codus
Project April 29
27 October 2024 E 20:00
Chaeyeon Lee - synths and keys
Robin Lisandro Couderc - bass
Hyungjin Ee - saxophone, synth
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Robbie and the
Pastrami family
(NY/FR/BE)
3 November 2024 E 20:00
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!!!!
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
Yo Hes brings some Brussels, Paris and Luxemburg folks together to try out some crazy tunes... YhES!
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
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Dave Gisler Trio (CH)
24 November 2024 E 20:00
Dave Gisler - guitar
Raffaele Bossard - bass
Lionel Friedl - drums
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.
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
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.
Gratitude Trio
8 December 2024 E 20:00
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 ...
Popdragon
15 December 2024 E 20:00
Grégoire Tirtiaux Sax & Electronique
Manuel Roland - Guitare
Manu Loriaux - Basse électrique
Jérémie Mosseray - Batterie & Percussions
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.
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
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!
Cousseau-Cerovecki Quartet
29 December 2024 E 20:00
Laurence Cousseau - alto flute
Clément Cerovecki - piano
Robin Lisandru - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
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.
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.