Jazz Articles about Teun Verbruggen

About Teun Verbruggen

Live Review

Blind Io LOFT Cologne, Germany March 17, 2025 It is early evening in Cologne and the fragile springtime sunlight has vanished. Cold, dry air clings to lungs and scratches windpipes as audience members climb four flights of stairs to LOFT. Inside this dusty post-industrial venue, the windows are shut and invisible particles between the 25 attendees are stuck in place, motionless. But not for long. Four members of Blind Io shuffle into the ...

Album Review

Orchestra Nazionale Della Luna: Selene's View

Read "Selene's View" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 19, 2024

In the interests of full disclosure let us dispense with the notion that Orchestra Nazionale Della Luna is an Italian band. Or an orchestra. ONDL was founded by Finnish pianist Kari Ikonen and Belgian saxophonist/flautist Manuel Hermia in 2015, with additional Belgians in the shape of double bassist Sébastien Boisseau and drummer Teun Verbruggen making the quartet arguably the most important Finnish-Belgium exchange since Finland and Belgium first traded fuel for cars and tractors. As for the claim to lunar ...