Géraud Portal New Quartet
Géraud Portal, a musician with an atypical background, never ceases to surprise. As a child, he taught himself to play the electric bass for the first time. Later, dividing his time between lumberjack during the week and jazz musician at the weekend, he gradually carved out a place for himself in the French artistic scene. [...]
Jazz Station Big Band
The Jazz Station Big Band is releasing 'Moods', its brand new album on the Hypnote Records label. This eagerly-awaited recording is sure to cause a stir, having been perfected over many months within the walls of the Jazz Station. So it seemed an obvious place to celebrate the official release of the new plaque. Original tracks by [...]
Irniger Trio ft. Van Gelder + Luca Sisera "Roofer
We regret to inform you that this concert has been postponed due to the changing international situation caused by Covid-19. If you have made a reservation, you should have received an e-mail containing a voucher for the amount of your ticket, valid for all Jazz Station concerts for 1 year. If you [...]
Basile Rahola Quartet
Double bassist Basile Rahola, recently arrived in Belgium, presents his new quartet with three outstanding musicians from the Belgian jazz scene. Pierre Hurty, an eclectic French drummer, Julien Cuvelier, a young and talented Belgian saxophonist, and Wajdi Riahi, his long-time sidekick, a Tunisian pianist who has been particularly creative on both the Belgian and Tunisian scenes, [...].
MikMâäk + Marc Ducret
In today's musical landscape, whether in Belgium or abroad, it's hard to find an ensemble that so overturns the codes of the traditional big band. Somewhere between a big band, an improvisation collective and an avant-garde jazz ensemble, MikMâäk is synonymous with organised chaos, with incredible solo interventions flowing organically into liberating compositions... all [...].
Toine Thys Orlando
A variety of styles and tones, subtle rhythms, a music where joy and melancholy rub shoulders at every moment. Played with ease, this music invites you to travel into a poetic universe, and opens the door to wide open spaces. The drums are light and airy, and the double bass, at the centre, breathes as if it's [...]
Vaiana Stone
After a few years of recharging his batteries and reflecting on life's essential values, Pierre Vaiana returns from Sicily with his pockets full of melodious, tender jazz, bursting with sunshine and compositions that seem to be blown by water, wind and mountains. Serene, mature, dense, disconcerting, majestic jazz. A jazz that lets you hear the [...]
Pauline Leblond Double Quartet
Eight musicians cross the bridge between jazz and baroque music. A brilliant dialogue between these artists, delivered with elegance and casualness. A subtle blend of a jazz quartet and a string quartet, sometimes confronting each other, sometimes fusing around the original compositions of a trumpeter of unbridled creativity.the eight musicians present their [...]
Tutu Puoane
Tutu Puoane's beautiful voice, intuition, sense of rhythm and melody, combined with her charm and sense of humour, make every concert a memorable event. With her charismatic personality, the South African singer effortlessly conquers the hearts of music lovers across stylistic boundaries. In her [...]
Kris Defoort
Following the huge success of his opera 'The Time of Our Singing', Kris Defoort is surprising us, in a completely different context, for the opening of the River Jazz Festival. This carte blanche inspired him to explore an intimate adventure in purely improvised chamber music. An evening of 'instant composing' with two companions who have been on the road for more than [...]
RIVER JAZZ NIGHT STÉPHANE GALLAND (BE)
A drummer out of the ordinary, a great rhythmic explorer in perpetual search of new beats, finding his polyrhythmic inspiration in the multiplicity of his artistic encounters, all around the world: Central Africa, India, the Balkans, etc. He draws his inspiration from registers as colourful as they are delightful, and will give us a triple sample of them during this evening [...].
SIMIN TANDER NEW QUARTET (AF/DE)
The German-Afghan singer Simin Tander enchants audiences with the richness of her sound and the intensity of her mystically inspired music, which traces a path back to her Middle Eastern heritage and into the depths of her soul. After two albums and international concerts with her Dutch quartet, her worldwide collaboration with pianist Tord Gustavsen and her [...]
