 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday June 17, 2012
Drummer Stéphane Galland prepares a studio album with his Lobi project
Drummer Stéphane Galland announces an upcoming studio album with his Lobi project, to be released in the fall 2012 on Outnote Records.
Lobi is composed of Tigran Hamasayan (p), Misirli Ahmet (perc), Carles Benavent (el. bass), Magic Malik (flute, voc.), Petar Rolchev (accordeon) and Stéphane Galland (drums).
Click the title to watch a videoclip.
|
|
Saturday June 16, 2012
Aka Moon : Concerts and workshops in Constantine
Aka Moon will play at the Constantine International Jazz Festival in Algeria on June 18, 2012, and will offer workshops.
Click on the title.
|
|
Thursday June 7, 2012
On Arte TV, June 7 : "Bons baisers de la colonie", documentary film with music by Tuur Florizoone
On Arte TV, June 7 (23:45) : "Bons baisers de la colonie", a documentary film by Nathalie Borgers with music by Tuur Florizoone.
You can also watch it in streaming on the Arte website from the 8th through 14th of June, 2012.
Also currently in the Vendome movie theater, in Brussels, once a day at 15:50.
|
|
Tuesday June 5, 2012
On Youtube, an interview of trombonist Phil Abraham at the Sunset in Paris
In French. Click on the title to view an interview of trombonist Phil Abraham made after a successful appearance of the New Phil Abraham Quartet at the Sunset in Paris.
|
|
Saturday June 2, 2012
Jazz Hot # 660 is out
Sommaire :
Norman GRANZ / Jammin’ the jazz
Tad HERSHORN / Norman et moi
Sergio VESCHI / Red Records
David S. WARE / Planetary Unknown
COOPER-MOORE / Musique de (ma) chambre
Darius JONES / Une affaire d’art
Le siècle de Hugues PANASSIÉ (1ère partie)
|
|
Thursday May 31, 2012
On Zero4Tv : a video portrait of guitarist Michel Delville
After Robert Jeanne, Michel Debrulle, André Klenes and Igor Gehenot, "zero4tv" (Michael Maystadt) offers a fifth portrait of a jazz musician from the Liège area : guitarist Michel Delville, interviewed by Jean-Pierre Goffin (in French).
Click on the title to watch the video.
|
|
Wednesday May 30, 2012
Louis Joos : exhibition of his jazz drawings in Paris
At the Galerie l'Oblique in Paris (Village Saint-Paul 75004 Paris), Louis Joos proposes an exhibition of his jazz drawings from May 31, 2012 through June 16, 2012
|
|
Tuesday May 29, 2012
Jef Neve completes his 2nd piano concerto, and introduces "Sons of the New World"
Pianist/composer Jef will give the premiere performance of his second piano concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic
during several concerts in October 2012.
In the meantime, he announces the launch of a new project, featuring his trio and 5 wind instruments, "Sons of the New World" (concerts in June 2012, cd in October 2012 on Universal).
|
|
Friday May 25, 2012
Jazz (Philippe Baron) on RTBF web site : new URL
Click on the title...and bookmark the page.
|
|
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Igloo Jazz Classics : Act Big Band, HLM + other reissues
The Igloo label expands its "Igloo Jazz Classics" with 2 new reissues :
Act Big Band "Extremes"
HLM (Houben, Loos, Maurane).
Besides, other reissues (originally on B .Sharp) have been added to the Igloo catalog : Charles Loos Trio : "Secret Laughs"Diederik Wissels Trio : "Tender is the night"
|
|
Wednesday May 23, 2012
An interview of bassist Sal La Rocca on the Jazzques blog and in Le Soir
Jacques Prouvost made an interview of bassist Sal La Rocca on his blog "Jazzques".
Click on the title to read it (in French).
Sal also gave an interview to the daily newspaper "Le Soir". Read it HERE (in French).
Photo © Michel Binstok
|
|
Tuesday May 22, 2012
The new Phil Abraham Quartet to play in Paris at the Sunside
Trombonist Phil Abraham presents his new quartet in Paris at the Sunside, on May 31, 2012.
With Ron Van Rossum (p), Sam Gerstmans (b), Thomas Grimmonprez (drs) + guest : Fabien Degryse (gt).
|
|
Friday May 18, 2012
Mâäk : 4 concerts with Kojo + invites musicians for a musical party on May, 20
Mâäk is going to give four concerts with the project KOJO : 8 percussionists from Benin and 6 'blowers' from Belgium.
Laurent Blondiau : Besides these concerts, we'd love to invite all of you to a big musical party on Sunday the 20th in Park Royal at 5p.m.
Take your horn or your percussion to join us.
To prepare some pieces, contact laurent.blondiau@gmail.com
|
|
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Pianist Ivan Paduart's multiple projects
In the French version of this newsflash, Ivan Paduart describes some of his recent activities and upcoming projects.
|
|
Tuesday May 15, 2012
The trio of pianist Jeremy Dumont wins the 1st Prize in the Young bands contest in Comblain-la-Tour
The trio of pianist Jeremy Dumont has won the 1st Prize in the Young bands contest in Comblain-la-Tour (ex-æquo with the Saying Somethin’ Quartet). The trio is composed of Jeremy Dumont (p), Bas Cooijmans (cb) and Fabio Zamagni (drs).
They are invited to perform during the festival in July 2012.
Photo © Jacques Joris
|
|
Monday May 14, 2012
A radio interview of guitarist Guillaume Vierset (in French)
The radio show "L'Ardent Parler" recently featured an interview (in French) of guitarist Guillaume Vierset, who introduced his project "LG Jazz Collectif" during the recent Jazz à Liège Festival.
Click on the title.
Photo © Thomas Treta
|
|
Sunday May 13, 2012
"MixTuur" & "Rêve d'éléphant" play in Roumania
'Mixtuur' & 'Rêve d'Eléphant Orchestra' played in Roumenia last week at the 'Sibiu Jazz Festival' (www.sibiujazz.ro), thanks to the Belgian Jazz Meeting, earlier this year in Bruges, where Belgian bands could play for a public of concert organisers. For Tuur Florizoone it's the 3rd time he will play at this prestigious festival.
Both bands will tour this summer at several jazz festivals in Belgium : Comblain-la-Tour, Gaume Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, Festival d'Art de Huy...
|
|
Saturday May 12, 2012
Michel Herr is the arranger for the creation of "Colors of Time" in Switzerland, featuring 70 musicians on stage
Beginning of May 2012, Michel Herr went Switzerland to supervize the rehearsals of the "Colors of time" project, which features 13 arrangements he wrote on compositions by the Swiss pianist/composer Thierry Lang, featuring 5 European jazzmen (David Linx on vocals, Thierry Lang on piano, Matthieu Michel on trumpet, Heiri Känzig on bass and André Ceccarelli on drums) + the "Accroche-Choeur", a large choir (50+) from Fribourg (CH) and the strings of the "Ensemble de Chambre Fribourgeois", conducted by Jean-Claude Fasel.
This unique project, which saw more than 70 musicians and singers share the stage, was created on May 11 and 12, 2012 in Fribourg (CH) with a huge success. A cd is being planned.
Photo © Jacky Lepage
|
|
Friday May 4, 2012
May 6 & 7 : special "Hep taxi" on Belgian jazz on RTBF tv La 2
RTBF television (B) will re-broadcast a special programme from its "Hep Taxi" series, focusing on Belgian jazz. Musicians who will appear in the programme are a.o. Philip Catherine (gt), Bert Joris (tp), Alexandre Cavaliere (vl), Quentin Liégeois (gt) and Mimi Verderame (drs, gt).
Michel Herr wrote a piece for the occasion, titled "A hip taxi", played by Steve Houben (alto sax), Jean-Pol Estiévenart (tp), Nicolas Kummert (tenor sax), Pascal Mohy (p), Jean-Louis Rassinfosse (double bass) and Jérôme Baudart (drums).
64 minutes of live music, archives and interviews.
May 6, 2012, RTBF La2, 22:40
May 7, 2012, RTBF La2, 0:55.
|
|
Friday May 4, 2012
The Fabrice Alleman New Quartet in concert in London on May 9, 2012
The Fabrice Alleman New Quartet will play in London on May 9, 2012 (Charlie Wright's, 45 Pitfield Street, Hoxton
London - N1 6DA ), with Reggie Washington (b), Nathalie Loriers (p) and Lionel Beuvens (drs).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
previous