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Since their debut in 1992, it has been hard to imagine the Belgian jazz scene without the innovative Aka Moon. Their refreshing approach to jazz gives the trio a highly distinctive sound. Since their first encounter with the Aka Pygmies in 1992, Aka Moon’s focus has shifted towards various different African, Indian, Maghrebian, Cuban, Arab, Afro-American and European traditions. The unique place Aka Moon occupies in todays music scene is down to the fact that they, independent of any particular trends, combine art with inspired musical craftsmanship. Aka Moon juggles with polyrhythms and polyphonies like mad DJ’s

Article: Live Review

Aka Moon + Guests al Theatre Marni di Bruxelles

by Mario Calvitti
October 30, 2026

Aka Moon + Guests / Bodem Theatre Marni Bruxelles 3 ottobre 2026 Nell'anno che celebra il centenario della nascita di due giganti della musica come Miles Davis e John Coltrane si sono moltiplicati in tutto il mondo i tributi a questi grandi artisti, fonte di ispirazione per tutte le generazioni di ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nicolas Genest, Raphaël Pannier, Dhafer Youssef, Clément Janinet & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 23, 2025

Enjoy an episode that revolves around projects that forge compelling bridges between jazz and African music, from Benin to Madagascar, Mali, Senegal and Tunisia.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nicolas Genest feat. Chris Potter “Midougbe Kpowoun" Danhomey Songs (Pure Capture) 0:16 Host talks 7:50 ...

Article: Live Review

Aka Moon alla Jazz Station, Bruxelles

by Mario Calvitti
March 26, 2025

Aka Moon Jazz Station Bruxelles 28 febbraio 2025 Non è facile oggi assistere a un concerto degli Aka Moon. Il trio belga costituito dall'altosassofonista Fabrizio Cassol, il bassista Michel Hatzigeorgiou e il batterista Stéphane Galland, con alle spalle una carriera ultratrentennale, è ben noto in patria e in alcuni dei paesi ...

Article: Live Review

European Jazz Conference 2024

by Ian Patterson
September 30, 2024

European Jazz Conference 2024 Music Centre De Bijloke/Various venues Ghent, Belgium September 12-15, 2024 For such a relatively young music it is ironic that one of the issues facing jazz is old age. Aging audiences to be precise. But let us be clear, it is a good thing jazz retains ...

About Pierre-Antoine Savoyat

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Pierre-Antoine Savoyat

Born: October 7, 1993

From a music-lover family, Pierre-Antoine Savoyat blows his first notes on cornet at the Conservatoire de Villefranche-sur-Saône (France). Curious and passionate, he tries and dug a lot of different music styles (free improvisation, jazz, piano, trending music,...) during his teenage years. As a self-taught musician, he composes his first bars at only eight years old. After studying at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Chalon sur Saône, where he obtains a triple musical diploma in Jazz (Olivier Py, Fred Nardin...) Classical Trumpet (Eric Planté) and Orchestral Conducting, and he also follows Composition and Organ lessons.

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Article: Live Review

Gent Jazz 2023

by Martin Longley
August 18, 2023

Gent Jazz Festival Gent, Belgium July 9-15, 2023 It looked dire in 2022. The Gent Jazz festival, a two-decade integral element in the cultural life of this wondrous Belgian city, was declared bankrupt, along with Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp, which had an even more august history. Amazingly, it's still here ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Samuel Blaser, Aka Moon, Michael Blake, La Marmite Infernale & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 30, 2023

Around the world in a playlist, which features Latin and Caribbean influeces, touches of Indian music, spiritual jazz, Brazilian aromas, microtonal atmospheres, and visceral electro-acoustic outbursts. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme" 0:00 The Kevin Fingier Collective “Latin Dynamite" Latin Dynamite--Single (Acid Jazz) 0:16 Host talks 3:04 Samuel Blaser “Chronicles" ...

Article: Album Review

Aka Moon: Quality of Joy

Read "Quality of Joy" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
April 3, 2023

Superato anche il traguardo dei 30 anni di attività, il trio belga degli Aka Moon ritorna con un nuovo progetto discografico, che rappresenta una summa del lavoro svolto finora, ma anche un nuovo punto di partenza verso altri orizzonti musicali. Come già accaduto in passato, al trio di base, costituito dal sassofonista Fabrizio Cassol, ...