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Nicolas Thys

Live At The Jazz Station

By Stéphane Mercier

Label: Step By Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Quantum Stereo: My Ideal; Calling Colescott; Multi-Tonic Society; Belgian Flies; Blizz

Stéphane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station

by Ian Patterson
April 21, 2025

A graduate of the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles and Berkley College of Music--where he was lead alto in Herb Pomeroy's big band--Belgian saxophonist Stéphane Mercier has been leading/co-leading groups since the mid-'90s. This live album, captured from a gig at The Jazz Station, the famous Brussels venue in whose long-standing big band Mercier sits. That chair ...

Anouar Brahem, Joona Toivanen, Sullivan Fortner, Claudio Filippini & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 25, 2025

A playlist featuring music inspired by New Orleans, Gaza and Africa, and then an unearthed live gem.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sullivan Fortner “Southern Nights" Southern Nights (Artwork) 0:16 Host talks 5:48 Randal Despommier “Go to the Mardi Gras" South (Sunnyside) 7:38 Host ...

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

Belgian Jazz Showcase: European Jazz Conference 2024

by Ian Patterson
September 30, 2024

Various Artists Music Centre De Bijloke/various venues European Jazz Conference Ghent, Belgium September 12-15, 2024 An important part of the annual European Jazz Conference (see separate article) is the space given over to music of the host country. In fact, it could be argued that more time is allotted ...

Monk's Mood

By Vincent Thekal

Label: Hypnote Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Evidence Off Minor Pannonica Friday The 13th Monk's Mood Little Rootie Tootie

Kris Defoort Diving Poet Society

In Kris Defoort’s Diving Poet Society two brilliant musicians join the heart of the Kris Defoort trio into a new musical adventure. Together they explore fresh compositions injected by the inspiring poems of Peter Verhelst, a unique, stubborn writer embracing life with all its dark mysteries. Balancing between improvisations, composed material & instant orchestration, it is the eternal search for this one magical, unknown moment. Five musical poets communicating the joy of diving into an ocean of unlimited colours, words & sounds... Veronika Harcsa (voice) Guillaume Orti (saxophone) + Kris Defoort (piano) Nicolas Thys (bass) Lander Gyselinck (drums)

We Will Really Meet Again

By Nathalie Loriers

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Luiza; Everything we need; Quietness; We will really meet again; Dancao; Remembering Lee; Take The Cake; And then comes love; Fallen walls; Oceans.

Sebastian Gille: Anthem

by Dan McClenaghan
April 15, 2012

The most famous and venerable German record label is ECM Records, Manfred Eicher's brainchild, founded in 1969 and still going strong with now more than twelve hundred recordings in its catalog. But there is a German upstart, Pirouet Records, which has been in the business of offering up its own musical vision since the early 2000s, ...