Tutu Puoane
Tutu Puoane’s beautiful voice, her intuition, sense of rhythm and melody, combined with her charm and sense of humour, make every concert a memorable event. With her charismatic personality, this South African singer effortlessly conquers the hearts of music lovers across stylistic boundaries. In her latest project, she and her partner, pianist Ewout Pierreux, take […]
River Jazz Night: Fabian Fiorini
The Night, both the signature event and climax of the festival, crystallises a carte blanche in three times and three spaces. And it is no coincidence that Fabian Fiorini was chosen to orchestrate it all. Talented, chameleon-like, prolific, crazy enough to take up the challenge of setting up three projects as different as they are […]
Pauline Leblond Double Quartet
Eight musicians cross the bridge between jazz and baroque music. A brilliant dialogue between complicit artists, delivered with elegance and informality. A subtle blend of jazz quartet and string quartet, sometimes confronting each other and sometimes fusing around the original compositions of a fathomlessly creative trumpet player. The eight musicians present their new repertoire “Suites […]
MikMâäk + Marc Ducret
You’d be hard pressed in the current musical landscape (both in Belgium and abroad) to find a band that flips the codes of the traditional big band to such a degree. MikMâäk – a cross between big band, improvisation collective and avant-garde jazz ensemble – produces what sounds like organised chaos, featuring incredible solo interventions, […]
Birdland
The name Birdland, the legendary Manhattan club, is also the title of Serge Dehaes’ collection of jazz drawings – a visual patchwork dedicated to the passion of rhythm and emotions of music. “Drawing jazz may seem paradoxical, but it is not. The origins of jazz take us back to the suffering of black people, their […]
Kris Defoort
After the huge success of his opera ‘The Time of Our Singing’, Kris Defoort offers us a surprising opening of the River Jazz Festival in a very different setting. Armed with a carte blanche he had a fabulous opportunity to explore an intimate adventure in purely improvised chamber music. An evening of ‘instant composing’ with […]
Pierre Vaiana
Following several years of reflection on the essential values of life, Pierre Vaiana returns from Sicily, his pockets full of melodious, tender, sun-drenched jazz and compositions that seem to be carried along by water, wind and mountains. Serene, mature and intense jazz, both disconcerting and majestic, revealing a continuous note of yearning for peace, harmony… […]
