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Emmanuel Cremer

Born: March 1, 1975

Emmanuel Cremer is a French cellist, composer, improviser and educator based in Brussels.

For more than two decades, he has developed a personal artistic language at the crossroads of jazz, free improvisation, contemporary music and interdisciplinary performance. His work explores the cello as a complete sound world, moving between melody, rhythm, texture and spontaneous composition.

Influenced by artists such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Frisell, John Zorn and Barre Phillips, Cremer has shaped an approach rooted in deep listening, exploration and the dialogue between structure and improvisation.

Live From Brussels: Abrupt, Artonov, Toots Jazz Club & The Music Village

by Martin Longley
May 16, 2025

Daniel Proietto & Tsubasa Hori Artonov Lab October 6, 2025 Artonov is a festival dedicated to spaces and places and multi-faceted artistic expressions, music always representing a significant chunk of its highly diverse programming. It's a nomadic festival, dedicated to using buildings with an Art Nouveau or Art Deco character, and sometimes ...

Vincent Thekal

Born: January 27, 1982

« Few tenors in the 21st century have captured the expanse between beauty and complexity quite like Thekal« : when Ron Hart reviewed Brussels-based Vincent Thekal‘s latest trio record in DownBeat Magazine, the critically acclaimed ‘Origami’ (Hypnote, 2018), he expressed what many listeners have been experiencing listening to his impressive musicality.

His new album, « Monk’s Mood » (Hypnote 2023), with major europeans musicians, already impresses with its rereading of Thelonious Monk’s repertoire.

In addition Vincent has played with Bob Mover, Godwin Louis, Jerome Sabbagh, David Bryant, Franck Agulhon, Dre Pallemaerts, Bo Van Der Werf, Fabian Fiorini and Jean Louis Rassinfosse among other.

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 ...

Wajdi Riahi at Brussels Centre for Fine Arts

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
March 8, 2025

Wajdi Riahi The Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Belgium February 23, 2025 Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts, Henry Le Boeuf Hall, played host to Wajdi Riahi's solo piano concert last Sunday of February. The intimate atmosphere was further enhanced by the unusual seating arrangement, with audience members surrounding Riahi on ...

Nicolas Chkifi

Drummer, improviser, composer, music educator, and yoga teacher Nicolas Chkifi is based in Belgium. 
Born from a Moroccan father and a Belgian mother,
Chkifi has evolved in the jazz and improvised music scenes since 2002.

He has been studying with drummers and composers such as Stephane Galland, Dre Pallemaerts, Jim Black, Billy Hart, Tyshawn Sorey, Dan Weiss, and Susie Ibarra.

He has collaborated with a host of artists on many scenes including Josh Berman, Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, Dave Rempis, Tashi Dorji, John Dikeman, Susie Ibarra, Marta Warelis, Jozef Dumoulin, Augusto Pirodda, Jeroen van Herzeele, Gregor Siedl, Jan Rzewski, Pierre Vaiana, Audrey Lauro, Hugo Antunes, Lennart Heyndels, Frans van Isacker, Giovanni Di Domenico, Pak Yan Lau, Ruben Machtelinckx, Nils Vermeulen, Mathieu Robert, Julien Tassin and many others.

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.

Live From Brussels: The Residents, Marco Marcelletti, Lynn Cassiers & Jean-Paul Estiévenart

by Martin Longley
February 19, 2023

The Residents Botanique Brussels, Belgium January 29, 2023 Right at the start of their European tour, The Residents appeared at Botanique, a principal Brussels music venue. Calling this venture Dog Stab! 2023 strongly suggests a concern with their classic 1978 album Duck Stab! and the more recent (2020) ...

Artonov 2022

by Martin Longley
November 22, 2022

Artonov Brussels, Belgium October 12-15, 2022 Artonov is a Belgian festival that's committed to the commingling of creative strategies. Performances will always display at least two artistic forms, picking from a treasure trove that includes music, dance, film, poetry, painting, storytelling, video and even olfactory and culinary ...

The Trio Of Bassist Giuseppe Millaci Release A Live Album Recorded At Centre Culturel Flagey, Brussels

October 15, 2022

Interaction: Live At Flagey is the Vogue Trio’s third album since its creation in 2016 by bassist, composer and producer Giuseppe Millaci bringing together French pianist Amaury Faye and Belgian drummer Lionel Beuvens. After extensive international touring for Songbook and The Endless Way, receiving the prestigious Octave de la Musique in 2018, the trio returns to ...