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Happy hour BELGIAN Friday 24 April 17h30 DELEGATES Belgian Stand 6d02 Offered by JAZZ.brussels Sponsored by Brussels Invest & Export, building new perspectives Supported by visit.brussels JAZZAHEAD 2015 . Artist /Agencies /1 CONTENTS Aubergine Artist Management A management and production company providing support to Belgium’s most talented composers, musicians and bands. /Artists /Agencies /Venues /Festivals Aka Moon, with Fabrizio Cassol (saxophone), Michel Hatzigeorgiou (bass) Aubergine Artist Management ....1 Brosella ...................34 and Stéphane Galland (drums) Art -Spot ..................4 Djangofollies ................35 The unique place Aka Moon occupies in today’s music scène is down to the fact Bis Bookings .................6 30cc ......................36 that they combine art with inspired musical craftsmanship. OL Badass Yogi Productions ........8 Gaume Jazz Festival ..........37 “ The most adventurous Brussels-based jazz band is proving that its many influencesN Brussels Jazz Orchestra .........9 Handelsbeurs ...............38 throughout the years did not miss their mark.” AGENDA Caroll Vanwelden. .10 Jazz Brugge/ Arts Centre De Werf 39 ROSSIG David Thomaere .............11 Jazz & Muziek ..............40 BRZZVLL, feat. Anthony Joseph Flat Earth Society ............12 Jazz Station ................41 BRZZVLL plays improvised dance music with a jazz-fusion, funk and a rare Inside Jazz Management / ......13 On-z-road ..................42 groove sound like that of the 70’s: tight bass and drums, funky horns, imaginative Booking Travers ....................43 and sexy guitar and keyboards. “ When poetry meets groove” CANVAS Jef Neve/Silverbyrd management . 16 Vrijstaat O. .................44 Jelle Van Giel ................17 Kris Defoort Mâäk .....................18 Kris DefoortP is a major figure in theE uropean jazz music scene. He created a MET-X ....................19 / Organisations highly individual musical language that redefines musical traditions in an original WER SSELS Melike Tarhan ...............20 way. His musicNT is characterised by the encounter between classic and jazz music, A NU:BE///Thomas Champagne . 21 Muziekmozaïek .............45 and between written compositionsBRU and improvisation. Pierre de Surgères Trio ........22 Flanders Arts Institute ........46 “ A versatile and refined artist who combines, as few, harmonious wisdom, Root ......................23 Jazz Brussels ...............47 instrument mastering and pathos” All ABOUT JAZZ ItalY Redcat Artists ...............24 Les Lundis d’Hortense .........48 NT withE Bert Dockx (guitar), Fred Lyenn (bass) and Steven Cassiers Sander De Winne ............26 Wallonia-Brussels Music .......50 Dans Dans, H Stilletto ...................27 (drums): ONLY INTERNATIONALG BOOKINGS (Belgium, UK and The Netherlands excl.) Zephyrus Music ............ 28 Dans DansBRUGES unites the talent of three musicians at the top of their game. Zig Zag World ...............30 / Who’s Who ................52 Together they create music that categorises from garage jazz, psychedelic blues and ecstatic noir soundtracks to spacey rock ‘n’ roll. / Labels “ Buy, Shut up and Listen” FOCUS KNack / Map of Belgium .............. De BerenND Gieren, with Fulco Ottervanger (piano), Lieven Van Pée (bass) Igloo Records .............. 32 E W.E.R.F. ..................33 and SimonT Segers (drums) OS Based on the compositions of pianist Fulco Ottervanger, the trio uses the power of improvisation on the quest for a new form. De Beren Gieren provides robust evidence that gold can still be mined from the union of piano, bass and drums. “ Fantastically enjoyable, very energetic and very varied in mood” BBC3 2 /Artists / Agencies. /3 LABtrio, with Bram De Looze (piano & Fender Rhodes) Anneleen Boehme (double bass) and Lander Gyselinck (drums) LABtrio mixes the different personalities of three young, adventurous musicians. Their music is uplifting, refreshing and in constant evolution. LABtrio creates a musical laboratory where influences of jazz, improvisation, and electronic music are mixed. “ They play with that winning combination of utter conviction and disregard for KRIS DEFOOrt BRZZVLL precedent that characterises the best jazz groups.” THE IRISH TIMES Jens Maurits Orchestra Improvisation, orchestration, contemplation, authenticity and originality: Jens Maurits Orchestra embraces the full package with its transdisciplinary jazz concerts. Teun Verbruggen Teun Verbruggen is usually associated with drums, electronics, noise-pad and toys. With his own groups, Teun Verbruggen likes to travel the most experimental DANS DANS AKA MOON routes of jazz, rock and improvisation but also has forged close links with a wide network of artists evolving on the interdisciplinary arts scene. Maaike Wuyts General manager [email protected] M +32 (0)473 37 19 70 Zoë Pigot Mc Pherson DE BEREN GIEREN LABTRIO Production and tour manager [email protected] T +32 (0)2 414 67 64 Stef Vonk Production and tour manager [email protected] M +32 (0)485 99 02 52 www.aubergineartistmanagement.com JENS MAURITS ORCHEstra 4 /Artists / Agencies. /5 Art-spot.be ART-SPOT.BE is a Ghent-based agency that offers management, services such as structural or productional advice - and support for various Belgian ensembles and performing arts organisations. 22 strings and a piece of wood Jakob Bro, Joachim Badenhorst, Frantz Loriot, Seraphine Stragier, Yannick Peeters, Kristof Roseeuw (two double basses, cello, viola, electric guitar, Celtic harp, reeds: clarinet / bass clarinet / tenor sax) This is a unique ensemble with both jazz and contemporary classical chamber music references, with ‘the vibrating string’ as focal point. With its unique line-up, omission of drums and the presence of two double basses, these musicians envisage to create an opening to develop new timbres and idiosyncratic approaches to the ‘jazz formula’ as an ever evolving genre. TOO NOISY FISH Too Noisy Fish Peter Vandenberghe (piano),Teun Verbruggen (drums and percussion), Kristof Roseeuw (double bass) Too Noisy Fish is breaking new boundaries. The piano trio with double bass and drums freely explores any style or inspiration: jazz, film, classic, ambient, experimental or rock. TNF, being also the rhythm section of the slightly deranged Belgian big band Flat Earth Society, is now completely on the loose. They chose The Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, California to record their second CD ‘Fight Eat Sleep’, with Oz Fritz pushing the buttons. The result is a no bullshit recording straight to tape: no edits, no overdubs. 22 striNGS AND A PIECE OF WOOD Simple The talented composer and producer Pierre Vervloesem (Flat Earth Society, SIMPLE Kings of Belgium, X-legged Sally, A Group ...) is back with a new quartet called ‘Simple’. This time on bass guitar, he is surrounded by Bruno Vansina on the Lawrence Van Den Eede & saxophone, Didier Fontaine, outstanding session drummer and Joris Caluwaerts Anniek Vanhee on keys. General Management The music of Simple is a very naive, almost grotesque version of jazz. It includes [email protected] very diverse elements ranging from French film toN ew York’s New Wave of the [email protected] MANAGEMENT & We are from Belgium 1980s, from the most miserable prog rock to the most enlightened modern jazz. M +32 (0)475 90 47 25 Made in Flanders Their first album ‘Undeletable’ was published on Off-Record Label in Brussels. www.art-spot.be SERVICES 6 /Artists / Agencies. /7 SKORDatUra PUNkjazz ENSEmblE JOHN GHOst AltErtapE HUMBLE GRUMBLE BACKBACK SWEET DEFEat Bis Bookings Humble Grumble Bis Bookings provides a tailor-made solution for music with character: Crazed jazzy and avant-proggy, the Belgian ensemble Humble Grumble seem bookings, management and promotion. The agency especially focuses on ‘Zappa-esque’ while stirring in their melting pot of anything-goes music, with improvisation and jazz in ‘the broad sense’. either outrageous or incongruously dark lyrics but rooted in a somewhat folkier side. Skordatura Punkjazz Ensemble Four musicians, bound together by the love of challenging music, have built a Backback repertoire with a passion for experiment and the ‘out-of-the-ordinary’. Influences A Belgium-based jazz trio with sax, guitar and drums. ‘An unusual line-up’ you of Aka Moon, Fieldwork, Greetings from Mercury, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, might think, or ‘no bass player, isn’t that a handicap?’ Not so with Backback. Steve Coleman and Wayne Shorter. Through years of rehearsing, gigging, and recording, the trio has forged their own “Their debut ‘How To Chase A Minute In One Second’ draws not so much from the 1970s punk impressive sound and seems to have a magic formula to keep its music fresh, rock tradition of expression (despite their musical skill), but from the resonant sounds and ingenious and yet accessible. A unique blend of jazz, rock, free jazz, funk, but attitude of Jaco Pastorius’ post-Weather Report music. (...) Their approach to music making with the impact and sound of a thunderous rock band. revives the fusion of rock and jazz without watering down either.” MARK CORROTO, all ABOUT JAZZ Sweet Defeat Sweet Defeat -composer and multi-instrumentalist Tom Wouters gathered John Ghost congenial minds with guitarist Bert Dockx and cellist Lode Vercampt to form a John Ghost is being influenced by modal and free jazz, as well as by contem- rather atypical trio. Together they create ‘chamber jazz and beyond’, which porary-classical and progressive rock music. The compositions