ALEXANDRE CAVALIERE INVITES PHILIP CATHERINE Tuesday 19 January 20:15 SOLD OUT
Image © Bernard Rosenberg

Violin virtuoso Alexandre Cavaliere was already on the stage accompanying his father, jazz guitarist Mario, by the age of 12. His natural inclination is swing, but over the last few years he has been involved in more contemporary projects. Cavaliere’s multi-facetted talent will be much on display at the festival: during the opening concert with Philip Catherine, in the Darwin Case ensemble and in the Roma universe of Trio Escoudé. These two musicians may be a generation apart but their talents wipe out the age difference.

Alexandre Cavaliere violin | Philip Catherine guitar

L'ÂME DES POÈTES Wednesday 20 January 20.15 Image © D.R.

• New CD « Ceci n’est pas une chanson belge »
This outstanding trio of first-rate Belgian jazz musicians has just released its sixth album, an exploration of the standards of Belgian chanson française in instrumental versions dripping with emotion, imagination and humour. A portrait of the plat pays as seen through the songs of Arno, Maurane, Adamo, Vaya Con Dios…

Fabien Degryse guitar | Jean-Louis Rassinfosse double bass | Pierre Vaiana soprano saxophone

DARWIN CASE feat. MICHEL HATZIGEORGIOU Thursday 21 January 20.15 Image © Xavier Rogé

• New CD « Three of Might », Travers/AMG
Darwin Case’s audacious sound transcends jazz and turns it into ambiant music, with some electro added to the groove. Xavier Rogé’s pieces are powerful, like a hard slap. While the musicians are at work on stage, Sébastien Lucas produces numerical drawings that are projected onto a big screen, transforming the sounds into an illustrated tale. This is very special music captured visually – nothing is the same twice.

Alexandre Cavaliere violin | Benoît Caudron keyboards | Michel Hatzigeorgiou bass | Sébastien Lucas video & live painting | Xavier Rogé drums | Olivier Stalon electric

ALEXANDRE CAVALIERE INVITES CHRISTIAN ESCOUDÉ (F) Tuesday 26 January 20.15 SOLD OUT
Image © Jos L. Knaepen
A gathering of the big family of Roma jazz ! Christian Escoudé, with his perfect pitch for Roma (manouche) guitar and winner of the 2008 Django d’Or for guitar has taken the best from the Django sound while at the same time adding touches from gypsy tradition. David Reinhardt, Django’s grandson, and Alexandre Cavaliere share a talent that bloomed early in their musical childhoods.

Alexandre Cavaliere violin | Christian Escoudé, David Reinhardt,
Jean-Baptiste Layla guitar

I OVERDRIVE TRIO (F) Wednesday 27 January 20.15 Image © D.R.

Pink Floyd fans will recognise in the name of this French trio the top track on their first album, a free rock musical UFO that guitarist Syd Barrett draws on to let his talent loose. Philippe Giordani - at heart a rock musician - and two jazzmen get together to produce these psychedelic sounds. According to Inrocks, this is a trio to discover, « at once relevant and bold ». The album was the ‘coup de cœur’ of France Inter.

Philippe Giordani guitar | Rémi Gaudillat trumpet | Bruno Tocanne drums

The evening continues at Flagey >> €15/10 of €20/15 for the 2 concerts on the 27.01

MARC LELANGUE AND THE HEAVY MUFFULETAS Friday 29 January 20.15 Image ©Jempi Samyn
New Orleans Rythm ’n Blues with an eyewink to Ray Charles

When he decided to put together a programme in homage to Ray Charles, Marc Lelangue soon realised that Father Ray, just like him, had sought much inspiration in New Orleans, the geographical source of much 20th-century music. The two repertoires seem to have been made for each other.

Marc Lelangue guitar, voice | Nina Babet, Chantal Kashala choir | Olivier Bodson trumpet | Laurent Doumont tenorsax | Gilles Repond trombone | Philippe Reul piano | Augustin Foly bass | Patrick Dorcean drums

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ENTRANCE |15€/10€*/1.25€ Article 27 (* Reduction for –26, + 60, job seekers, Médiathèque & FNAC members)

Friday 22 January 12:30 - 13:30 Studio 1 Piknikmusik : Jeroen Van Herzeele – Erik Vermeulen Duo
Erik Vermeulen piano | Jeroen Van Herzeele sax
Musical encounter between two close friends on the Belgian jazz scene, each with a rich and varied musical itinerary; like two gold-diggers, they blend their notes through spontaneous improvisation.

>> € 5,5

Saturday 23 January 20:15 Studio 4
Vlaams Radio Koor‘Chichester Psalms’, concert du nouvel an
Timo Nuoranne conductor | Jef Neve piano | Mieke Buekers drums | Bart Naessens organ | Leen Van der Roost harp

Leonard Bernstein ‘Chichester Psalms’
Leonard Bernstein Excerpts from ‘West Side Story’
Eric Whitacre ‘Cloudburst’
Jef Neve New work commissioned by the Vlaams Radio Koor
Crossover programme for this New Year concert that hovers somewhere between classical and jazz, including Leonard Bernstein’s feverish lightness, choral music’s rising star Eric Whitacre’s trip to paradise, and jazzman Jef Neve’s as yet unrevealed work written specially for the choir.

>> € 25, € 20, € 16 – (€ 20, € 16, € 12,5)

FABIAN FIORINI 3io ‘More red in the blue’ (1st part)
Fabian Fiorini piano | Jean-Luc Lehr electric bass | Chander Sadjoe drums

ERIC LEGNINI TRIO ‘Trippin’(2nd part)
Eric Legnini piano, Fender Rhodes | Thomas Bramerie double bass | Franck Agulhon drums
Two pianists and their respective trios, equally brilliant and versatile. Playing with sounds as though they were made of plasticine, they are the creators of eclectic and jubilant musical worlds. Fiorini’s first album was about ‘Something Red in the Blue’, Eric Legnini’s put something funky into his jazz…

>> € 23, € 18 (€ 18, € 14)

Wednesday 27 January 21:45 JAUME VILASECA QUARTET ‘Jazznesis. The Music of Genesis 1970-1974’
Victor De Diego sax | Ramon Diaz drums | Dick Them bass | Jaume Villaseca piano
For Spanish pianist Jaume Vilaseca, jazz is alive, well and open to a multitude of transformations. With this in mind, he has explored afresh the music of progresssive rockers Genesis. Discovered last March in Barcelona, De Jaume Vilaseca’s quartet has taken the tunes written by Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel and given them a new voice, a new language, and colours borrowed from flamenco, and African, Latin and Brazilian sounds. At the same, he shows surprising respect for the original score - to the likely satisfaction of Genesis fans.

>> € 15 (€ 10) ou € 20 (€ 15) pour les deux concerts du 27.01

Thursday 28 & Friday 29 January 20:15 Studio 4 Brussels Jazz Orchestra – enregistrement live
Bert Joris compositions
Seven years after their joint opus, trumpet player and arranger Bert Joris has been busy writing new pieces for our favourite big band: the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. We’ll hear them over two evenings recorded live.
>> € 15 (€ 12)

Friday 29 January 12:30 Studio 1 Piknikmusik : The Brussels Vocal Project
François Vaiana, Frederik Lebeer, Loïs Le Van, Thibault Dille, Célia Tranchand, Vanessa Matthys, Eline Aussems, Natashia Kelly, Elsa Gregoire song
A vocal group made up of nine powerful personalities who audaciously revisit a cappella a few of the best pieces by Belgian jazz composers, from ballads and groove, harmonies to rhythm, producing some singularly warm music.

>> € 5,5

Saturday 30 January 20:15 Studio 1 Mélanie de Biasio
Mélanie De Biasio voice | Pascal Mohy, Pascal Paulus keyboards | Dré Pallemaerts drums
With Mélanie De Biasio, it’s all about voluptuousness and jazz to warm the hackles: her magnetic presence is hypnotic, her powerful yet suave voice is enhanced by the instrumentalists, her songs hover somewhere between swing and spleen. A master of ambiance, de Biasio draws her audiences into her sensitive, sensorial universe.

20.01 > 30.05 Studio 4 Expo Flagey Gallery: ‘Résonnances’
Musically inspired pieces by the Centre for Engravings

Jazz will play centre stage in this selection of works from the collection of the Engravings’ Centre. Alechinsky drew the poster for the Jazz Festival of Paris. Kikie Crèvecoeur’s engravings on rubber evoke crazy rhythms, while Thierry Lenoir’s engraved scenes, Jean-Claude Salémi and the great Joost Swarte also evoke the world of jazz.

Free entrance during activities at Studio 4
In collaboration with the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée de La Louvière

Cycle de films “Notes bleues et séries noires”
The Cinematek has put together a film programme made up of films on the theme of “jazz and série noire”. Films with soundtracks written or performed by jazz musicians include Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Miles Davis soundtrack), Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet), Peter Yates’s Bullitt (music by Lalo Schiffrin), Dennis Hopper’s The hot Spot (Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker), Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington), Claude Miller’s « Mortelle randonnée » (Carla Bley), Jean-Pierre Melville’s « Deux hommes dans Manhattan » (Martial Solal)…
Jean-Pol Schroeder of the Maison du Jazz will introduce one of these screenings with a talk on “jazz and thrillers” on January the 25th, at 20:15 in Flagey – Studio 5.