Events

Tuesday 12/07/2022

Rutger Mathys – harmonica Elias D'hooge – keys Achilles De Raedt – guitar Iskander Moens – bass Tibo Polleunis – drums Shikata Ga Nai was meant to be from the very begi...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent

Sunday 10/07/2022

Precisely 55 years ago, Van Morrison and his Northern Irish band Them unleashed the rock & roll classic ‘Gloria' on the world – as a B-side! His first solo single, the timeless ‘Brown E...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Daniel Lanois is a jack-of-all-trades. He makes his own music, but has also worked as a producer with a long list of international giants, including Bob Dylan, U2, Brian Eno and Neil Young. His own mu...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
London Jazz Calling! When we say we've got mesmerizing people on stage, you can be sure that's not a lie. Award-winning vocalist Judi Jackson was first introduced to Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and El...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Steven De bruyn: harmonica Jasper Hautekiet: double bass Harmonica and double bass, two instruments that couldn't be more different, both in size and sound. And yet, these are the tools brothers i...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Sam De Nef: vocals / guitar Sam De Nef, a young singer-songwriter and composer living in Antwerp plans his first album release Dawn/Dusk in October on Unday Records. Sam is a storyteller, in the...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent

Saturday 09/07/2022

On 9 July living jazz legends will take the Gent Jazz stage by storm. American jazz musician Archie Shepp and pianist Jason Moran, who released a new masterpiece last year with Let My People Go, are b...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
The African-American tradition will be shaped on 9 July by the dream team of saxophonist Charles Lloyd and guitarist Bill Frisell, who unleashed a pearl of music on the world with their Tone Poem. By...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Hendrik Lasure and Casper Van De Velde were still teenagers without a driver's license when they took the Belgian jazz scene by storm. Since then, they have been awfully busy and became much-respected...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
What do you get when you bring together an award-winning saxophonist and a renowned trumpet player? Exactly: a masterly display of energy and liveliness. Partners in arms Joe Lovano – the sax leg...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent

Friday 08/07/2022

We'd love to know what potion Manchester mixes in the tap water, because it must be incredible stuff. With The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, The Stone Roses, Oasis and many others, the city spawned...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Some musicians reach for your soul, like Nina Simone. So does Lady Blackbird, named after the iconic "Blackbird" Nina Simone wrote in 1963, at the height of the black civil rights movement. The (amazi...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
This musician from the South London jazz scene found his musical inspiration in funk and soul when writing his politically engaged songs. The former guitarist of the amazing band KOKOROKO started his...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Eliott Knuets first called Basile Rahola to play couple of sessions and then recorded some songs in the studio next to his friend Simon Comté on saxophone, featuring italian drummer Umberto Odone. Bas...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
This lauded tuba player and composer is a key figure in London's thriving jazz scene. With his innovative sound, he brought the tuba out of the shadows and gave it a prominent place in his music. Cros...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Leafcutter John and Bex Burch, two of the most interesting voices of the jazz+ scene, started this collaboration as a series of improvisation sessions via Zoom. The meeting of minimalist percussion an...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
Dishwasher_ is a trio based in Ghent that makes "jazz for non-jazz believers". The three musicians met at the jazz department of KASK (Ghent) and improvise with electronics, rock and minimal music. Th...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent

Thursday 07/07/2022

Ibrahim Maalouf: lead trumpet, piano, vocals Francois Delporte: electirc gitaar Frank Woeste: Fender Rhodes, piano Stephane Galland: drums Thierry Fanfant: electric bas Denys Danielides: sousapho...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent
The high-profile British jazz collective Maisha touched down at Gent Jazz in 2019 – it's hard to ignore the group that helped launch Nubya Garcia's career into orbit. But this summer they have a...
De Bijloke - 9000 Gent