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Gent Jazz Festival: Days 1-4: July 5-8, 2012
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 5-8, 2012 All parts of northern Europe had already been suffering an intense rainfall throughout the month of June. There was no abating once July was in swing. The forecast was pretty much for a daily downpour, and for once ...
Pascal Niggenkemper Trio: Urban Creatures
by Nic Jones
The Pascal Niggenkemper Trio is one that covers a lot of ground, and they deserve praise for that. But the trouble is that a distinct musical identity only emerges infrequently despite the fact that all three players are clearly well versed in the territory they map out. Of the three of them drummer/pianist Tyshawn Sorey is ...
Robin Verheyen: Starbound
by J Hunter
After studying in his native Belgium and in the Netherlands, expatriate saxman Robin Verheyen spent a year at the Manhattan School of Music, where one of his teachers was soprano sax wizard Dave Leibman. Anyone familiar with Leibman's work knows the ex-Miles Davis sideman's musical feet are planted firmly on the ground... although which planet that ...
Starbound
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: On the House; Boechout; The Flight of the Eagle; Starbound; Lamenting; Roscopaje; Waves; Long Island City; Narcis; Tree Line; I Wish I Knew.
Robin Verheyen: Starbound
by Dan McClenaghan
Belgian-born/ New York-based saxophonist Robin Verheyen has crafted, on Starbound, an engaging form of lively chamber jazz--a label that often denotes a more sedate listening experience. Verheyen plays tenor and soprano saxophones, but here leans more toward the straight horn. The set opens with a spring-in-its-step romp, “On the House." The ensemble bubbles and ...
Pascal Niggenkemper: Pasapas
by Terrell Kent Holmes
While essentially a jazz album, Pasàpas, by bassist/composer Pascal Niggenkemper's trio, explores various musical landscapes with vigor and solid musicianship, presenting a nicely diverse lineup of original tunes. “Reverie Espagnole" opens with the symphonic lament of Niggenkemper's sonorous arco and then moves into an up-tempo rhythm, where saxophonist Robin Verheyen unleashes a wicked ...
Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed In Belgium
by Gary Gomes
Alex Maguire has built an extremely strong reputation as a multi-faceted keyboard player over the past few years. He has, in addition to small band settings like this one, held the keyboard chair in the late drummer Pip Pyle's group Bash! and, after that, participated in a reunion tour of Canterbury legend Hatfield and the North. ...
Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed In Belgium
by Nic Jones
Keyboard player Alex Maguire has worked with the present day incarnation of the British band Hatfield and the North and clearly he has more than sufficient chops to deal with a range of musical situations. The fare offered here is often freer than the Hatfield way, however. And when the music goes inside, such ...
