Roskam jazz concerts
Ashesash Jazz Quintet
(TW/IT/BE)
26 January 2025 E 20:00
ShaoHuan HUNG - Sheng
Joos Vandeuren - tenor saxophone
Machiel Heremans - guitar
Federico Stocchi - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums
‘’Ashesash Jazz Quintet’’ was found in 2018, gathered together with international musicians from Taiwan, Italy and Belgium based in Brussels.
Their music contains modern jazz and free improvisation, the influences of ECM records, mostly plays the music composed by the band leader ShaoHuan HUNG.
Casimir Liberski ReTRio
2 February 2025 E 20:00
Born in 1988 in Brussels, Casimir Liberski is a pianist, composer and improviser who made his mark in NYC for about a decade after
graduating from the Berklee College of Music. He decided to move back to Belgium in 2018. An insatiable jack-of-all-trades and bulimic heir to his "gods" Monk, Coltrane, Miles Davis, among the many deities of the colossal repertoire of baroque, classical, modern, jazz, and contemporary music, Casimir is also an obsessive tweaker of vintage analog synthesizers. "A lifetime will not be enough to quench my thirst for music," he says with a smile.
Taoyu Quartet
9 February 2025 E 20:00
Tao is a saxophonist and composer from China. She graduated from the Koninklijk Conservatory of Brussels in 2023, where she met her band members. They formed a band and played for Tao's graduation concert at the Musical Instruments Museum. After that they decided to develop this project, and record their first album in 2024.
In 2024 Tao went back to China and now she is back and looking forward to play music with her band in Brussels again!
Laurence Cousseau
'Les Groseilles de Novembre'
16 February 2025 E 20:00
Laurence Cousseau - alto flute
Luis Miguel Aguilar - bass clarinet
Joseph Nowell - keyboards
Emanuel Van Mieghem - double bass
Pierre Ferrand - drums
Through her compositions, Laurence Cousseau offers a perspective on a world situated between the real and the dreamlike. Her inspirations blend introspection, fantasized memories of enigmatic landscapes, and works of art and craftsmanship imbued with strong mystical energy. This results in a mix of modesty and irony, meditative trances, and mysterious dissipations. Her work incorporates jazz energy (Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus), colors drawn from the modern classical repertoire, as well as a contemporary jazz language.
Barbastelle
6 April 2025 E 20:00
Yann Lecollaire - clarinet
Hanne de Backer - sax, clarinet
Adèle Viret - cello
Samuel Ber - drums
Jordi Cassagne - bass, composition
Barbastelle is a musical hybrid combining the sounds of strings and woodwinds with those of impressionist drums, and blending written chamber jazz with the unexpectedness of episodes composed in the moment. It communicates through songs made up of chirps. Its sounds are formed by a repetition of clearly discernible melodic sequences. Its song varies according to the season, but everyone can understand it.