CONCERT SERIES ALERT

In June I will be leading 4 bands at The Music Village – Jazz Club, the legendary jazz club in the heart of Brussels.

JUNE 4 I will be paying tribute to Barry Harris, playing music from the album Luminescence!

Elly Brouckmans baritone saxophone

Mathieu Najean tenor saxophone

Dree Peremans trombone

Wouter Van den Broeck piano

Victor Foulon double bass

JUNE 10 will be my debut as a band leader, with mostly my compositions.

Nina Kortekaas keys

Roeland Celis guitar

Louise van den Heuvel electric bass

JUNE 17 we’ll be playing songs we like a lot. Music by Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Abdullah Ibrahim, et al.

Benjamin Sauzereau guitar

Bart Vervaeck pedal steel

Yannick Peeters double bass

JUNE 24 will be all about the genius of Thelonious Monk, who else?

Artan Buleshkaj guitar

Jasen Weaver double bass

Of course, I will be playing drums for all the concerts.

For tickets and more info go to the following link linktr.ee/dewaele.matthias

New album out by the fantastic Robert Jukič. It’s available through bandcamp.

I have a couple of new releases to share with you.

The First one is from the Quartet of Mathieu Najean. The recording was done the old fashioned way with minimal preparation and live playing in the same room close to each other. The result is an album called West Side and come out on Zoot Collectif records. We just did a release concert at the legendary club in Paris Le Duc Des Lombards, the 31st of August we’ll be playing at Toots Jazz Club and in January we’ll be doing a tour with Les Lundis D’hortense. Hope to see you at a concert, and I hope you’ll enjoy the album!

The album is available for purchase through this link.

Last week we were featured on the TSF radio program Impro Box by Ibrahim Maalouf. You can re-listen to the episode through this link. Check out one of the tunes we did live in the studio.

Second release is by my friend Roeland Celis. Roeland is a very unique musician and composer, and so is this album. The album is available on cd and vinyl through bandcamp. We have a couple release gig over the coming months, check Roeland’s site for more info.

Third release, is the record of the fantastic a capella group Nelja. I was lucky to play brushes on one of the tracks. Check out the album on bandcamp, It’s beautiful!