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CONCERT NEW ORIGIN: Joe FONDA (US)-Harvey SORGEN (US)-Christophe ROCHER (FR)

22/11/2026 - 16u00

Foto Harvey Sorgen

In sound, motion and beauty….so to lays the groundwork for truth. All that I am becomes a part of my own way of communication. In striving for a lifestyle unfettered by my own limitations, I am eternally grateful to have created honest music with some of the greatest artists of our time. It’s almost like I have to pinch myself sometimes to not forget how fortunate I am to have the love of my family, and the spirit to be open to what may appear to be right in front of me!!

Just a very few of the artists I have had the great fortune to record and/or perform with include:

Hot Tuna, Ahmad Jamal, Ted Dunbar, Michelle Shocked, Paul Simon, Dewey Redman, Frank Kimbrough, Dave Douglas, David Sancious, Mark Feldman, Karl Berger, Joe Mcphee, Julius Hemphill , Connie Bauer, Pete Levin, John Lindberg, Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hildago, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Herbert, Cameron Brown, Steve Swell, Neil Rolnick, Anthony Braxton, Carter Jefferson, John Stubblefield, Bruce Hornsby, Brenda Buffalino, Jay Anderson, Istvan Grenesco, Honi Coles, Daunik Lazro, Todd Reynolds, Derrick Trucks, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Roswell Rudd, Phil Lesh, David Torn, Levon Helm, The Memphis Pilgrims, Bill Frisell, Fonda/Stevens group, Herb Robertson, Carlos Santana, Omar Tamez, Remi Alvarez, Dry Jack, Art Lande, John d’Earth, Bob Weir, Greg Allman, Marcel Monroe, The Mallards, Sorgen-Rust-Windbiel trio, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Samuels, Drew Gress, Tony Levin, Garth Hudson, Jimmy Vivino, amongst many, many others.

A CONVERSATION WITH A GIANT / III: Alexander Von SCHLIPPENBACH met concert THE BRIDGE

20/09/2026 - 15u00

In de reeks van "A conversation with a giant" (Joe McPhee, Cel Overberghe) nodigen we deze keer Alexander Von Schlippenbach uit. O.l.v. Rodrigo Amado wordt nadien "The Bridge" aan u voorgeschoteld.

The Bridge is een generatie overkoepelend TOP ensemble uit de Europese impro scène.

  • Rodrigo Amado: Tenor saxophone (Portugal)
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano (Germany)
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Double bass (Norway)
  • Gerry Hemingway: Drums (Swiss)

Discography

As of 2026, the group has released two major albums on the Trost Records label:

  1. Beyond the Margins (2023): The quartet's debut album, featuring original improvisations and a cover of Albert Ayler's "(Visiting) Ghosts".
  2. Further Beyond (2025): A follow-up recording released in late 2025, which includes tracks like "A Change Is Gonna Come" and the 27-minute title track. 

Style and Influence

The band's name is a direct tribute to Sonny Rollins' classic 1962 album The Bridge, reflecting Amado's deep connection to the lineage of great tenor saxophonists. With Spontaneous Creations performs the group without prior discussion, relying on exceptional synergy and rapport. Their sound frequently references radical pioneers like Albert Ayler and the idiosyncratic piano style of Thelonious Monk (channeled through Schlippenbach). Performances transition between "meditative lyricism" and "fierce turbulence," a balancing structural invention with raw, visceral energy, with a huge Dynamic Range.

Foto: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten(bas), Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Rodrigo Amado (tenorsax), Gerry Hemingway (drums)

CONCERT Parazzar SIMON NABATOV (piano en electronics)

09/05/2026 - 16u30

TICKETS 30€. Te bestellen via onze website.

Nabatov, die opgroeide in een muzikantenfamilie, begon op 3-jarige leeftijd met vioollessen en op 4-jarige leeftijd met pianolessen. Hij zou zijn eerste composities hebben geschreven op 6-jarige leeftijd. Als kind nam zijn vader hem mee naar concerten van Duke Ellington (1971) en het Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra (1972). Na een klassieke opleiding aan het conservatorium van Moskou in 1976 emigreerde Nabatov met zijn ouders via Wenen en Rome naar New York. Sinds 1989 woont hij ook in Europa, voornamelijk in Keulen. Parallel met zijn studie aan de Juilliard School of Music van 1980 tot 1984 werkte Nabatov als jazzmuzikant. Er waren opnamen en concerten met veel gerenommeerde musici zoals Paul Motian, Tony Scott, Paul Horn, Barry Altschul, Billy Hart, David Murray, Mark Feldman, Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler, Arto Tunçboyacıyan en Ed Schuller.

Nabatov maakte enkele jaren deel uit van de kwartetten van Perry Robinson, Ray Anderson, Arthur Blythe en Alfred Harth, evenals het Klaus König Orchestra en Eckard Koltermanns Collage 11. Hij trad regelmatig op in een duo met Han Bennink, met Tom Rainey en met Nils Wogram (met Wogram ook in een kwartet). In het trio speelde hij enerzijds met Ernst Reijseger en Michael Vatcher, maar ook met Wolfgang Schlüter en Charly Antolini anderzijds. Ook zijn eigen projecten (van solo-optredens tot octetten) worden op cd gedocumenteerd. Zijn betrokkenheid bij de literatuur van Michail Boelgakov en vooral bij Joseph Brodsky en Daniil Kharms, waarin de teksten op sympathieke wijze worden geïnterpreteerd door Phil Minton, is bijzonder opvallend. Nabatov voerde ook kamermuziekwerken uit, die voor hem waren geschreven, zoals Kenny Werners pianoconcert voor Baba. Hij nam ook George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue en Rolf Liebermanns Concerto for Jazz Ensemble and Orchestra op.

Als improvisator en componist verbaast Nabatov door zijn zelfverzekerde omgang met materiaal uit de wereld van de jazz en klassieke pianoliteratuur: het speelse gebruik ervan, een constante transformatie en hervorming, de afwisseling tussen ernst en ironie geeft deze eclectische muziek evenveel openheid als kunstzinnigheid. Zeer virtuoos geneste pianoloopjes en brutaal ritmische clusters worden afgewisseld met rustige klankstudies à la Morton Feldman, zonder de traditie van een Bud Powell volledig te ontkennen. Hij doceerde aan de Folkwang Hochschule in Essen (1989–1991), de International Jazz and Rock Academy in Remscheid (1991–93) en van 1998 tot 2001 aan de Lucerne School of Music.

EXPO N.E.S.T. : "TRANSLUCENT" met Jacqueline Vanlandschoot (°1949) & Ad de Keijzer (†1923-1997)

09/05/2026 - 12u00

Jacqueline Vanlandschoot was centrale kunstenaar SANT 2022

 "Ik werk binnen de restrictie van het vierkant"

Geometrisch Abstracte Kunst

Ter gelegenheid van deze expo zal Jacqueline enkele unieke werken tonen van haar overleden echtgenoot beeldend kunstenaar Ad de Keijzer.

Meer info zie pagina N.E.S.T.

Performance door Simon NABATOV nav Expo N.E.S.T.

09/05/2026 - 12u00

EXPO N.E.S.T. Weeping Leaves

04/04/2026 - 13u00

P.A.K. bezet N.E.S.T. met deze boeiende tentoonstelling waar 5 kunstenaars centraal staan.

Meer info zie pagina N.E.S.T.

CONCERT YOU LAN with guest

15/03/2026 - 16u00

XU FENGXIA (guzheng en sanxian) (China) - GUNDA GOTTSCHALK (viool, altviool) (Germany) and guest BO SUNG KIM (percussie) (S.Korea)

De bijzondere fascinatie die uitgaat van het spel van deze twee musici schuilt in het feit dat ze niet improviseren op specifieke thema's, maar eerder lijken te converseren met hun instrumenten over stemmingen en gevoelens. De muzikale verwantschap en virtuositeit van Gunda Gottschalk en Xu Feng Xia maken het gesprek geloofwaardig en herkenbaar voor de luisteraar." (Kölner Stadtanzeiger) Xu Feng Xia en Gunda Gottschalk ontmoetten elkaar voor het eerst in 1995 in het kader van Peter Kowalds project "365 Days in Place". In datzelfde jaar richtte Peter Kowald met de twee musici zijn kerntrio "Global Village" op, waarmee hij tussen 1995 en 2002 door Europa en de VS optrad met vele gerenommeerde gastmusici. Op aanraden van hun collega en mentor Peter Kowald begonnen Xu Feng Xia en Gunda Gottschalk ook als duo op te treden. De klassieke Europese muzikale opleiding van de violiste en de traditionele Chinese muziekstudie van de guzheng-speler vormden een interessant uitgangspunt voor een muzikale dialoog.

Het duo You Lan (Chinees voor "donkere of mysterieuze orchidee") treedt al sinds 1999 op. Xu Feng Xia en Gunda Gottschalk hebben succes geboekt op het Visions Festival in New York, Other Minds in San Francisco en FIMAV in Canada. Hun duo-cd "You Lan" werd live opgenomen tijdens het FIMAV Festival in Canada in 2008. Concertreizen brachten de muzikanten naar vele Europese landen en regelmatig naar China. In 2012 organiseerden ze samen een orkestuitwisseling, waarbij ze het 14-koppige traditionele orkest van het Conservatorium van Suzhou uitnodigden naar Duitsland. Ze componeerden voor het grote ensemble en traden op in verschillende steden in Noordrijn-Westfalen. Na hun gezamenlijke tournee door China in 2017 produceerden ze het album "In Memoriam Global Village" met Peter Jacquemyn. Deze bezetting trad in 2019 op in Ulrichsberg. In 2023 trad het duo You Lan op met Günther Baby Sommer in Peitz. In 2024 nodigde Baby Sommer hen uit om op te treden in het Semperoperahuis in Dresden ter ere van zijn 80e verjaardag. In 2025 bracht hun reis hen terug naar China, waar ze in november optraden in Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen en Hangzhou. Ze hadden in 2018 al eens opgetreden met de percussioniste Bo Sung Kim in het kader van Baby Sommers "Window to Jazz"-serie.

Theater in het café: Horen-Zien en Sarina

08/03/2026 - 19u30

Ludiek Toneelspel: Wat als macht, ambitie, vriendschap, bedrog en verliefdheid elkaar kruisen op weg naar persoonlijke idealen? Dire heren weten er alles van... en Sarina!

LUKE STEWART SILT TRIO: EXCLUSIEF BELGISCH CONCERT! with guest Aquiles Navarro (trumpet)

25/02/2026 - 19u00

SILT TRIO
Luke Stewart - double bass and composition (US)
Brian Settles - tenor sax (US)

special guest SILT TRIO: Paal Nilssen-Love - drums (NOR)

EXTRA special guest Aquiles Navarro - trumpet (US)

https://www.aquilesnavarro.com/home-1
Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer, organizer, and writer-researcher whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Exposure Quintet, and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths; he also performs regularly in numerous collaborations.

In his Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier and Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Astral Spirits, 2018, 2021, 2022), Stewart explores real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities, as well as the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic—the relationship between wood and electricity. He uses the resonant qualities of the bass and one or more amplifiers to create reverberations from the plucking of strings, his bow, and moving the instrument itself back and forth in space.
Over the years, Stewart has performed at Arts for Art’s Vision Festival, New York, NY; Winter Jazzfest, New York, NY; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C; Rhizome DC, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN; the BIMHUIS, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, among many other venues and festivals in the United States and abroad. As a scholar, Stewart has also performed and lectured at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; University of Montana, Missoula, MT; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Stewart has had residencies at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY; The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL; and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2022) to support his work with KO Arts in New Orleans. Stewart was noted in DownBeat as one of twenty-five performers to “shape jazz for decades” (2020).
He holds a B.A. from American University and an M.A. from The New School, where he is also an adjunct professor in the College of Performing Arts. Stewart is a co-founder and artistic director of CapitalBop, a Washington, D.C.-based jazz nonprofit.

Saxophonist and composer Brian Settles has established himself as a rising force with a long-term artistic vision. Settles blends the outwardly engaging with the deeply personal, reconciling his intimate command of the jazz lineage with a commitment to his own experimental voice. He performs regularly with some of modern jazz's leading groups, including Tomas Fujiwara and The Hook Up, Michael Formanek's Cheating Heart and Big Band Kolossus, and bands led by Jonathan Finlayson. Settles has also accompanied the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, Jason Moran and Marc Cary.

Settles' two albums as a leader feature entirely original music, highlighting his buoyant, pithy compositions: Secret Handshake (Engine, 2011) featured the five-piece Central Union, and was named the best jazz record of the year by both the Washington City Paper and CapitalBop.com. Settles followed up with Folk (Engine, 2013), a trio album acclaimed by Something Else Reviews and the NYC Jazz Record.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Settles picked up the saxophone in the eighth grade and was immediately enamored. The next year he enrolled in the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he spent the next four years studying with renowned saxophonist and educator Davey Yarborough. During his time at Ellington, Settles began a ten-year mentorship with tenor saxophone legend Stanley Turrentine. This exposure to the life of a veteran performer and recording artist solidified his plans of becoming a jazz musician.

Paal Nilsen Love was born in Molde, Norway, Dec 24. 1974, and raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his parents.

It was natural to choose his fathers drums as his instrument and jazz as his work. From 1990 on he took actively part in the jazz milieu in Stavanger and joined bands with established musicians such as trumpeter Didrik Ingvaldsen and saxophonist Frode Gjerstad. In many ways, these collaborations were essential as they pointed out the directions for Paal’s later musical development and career. During his studies at the Jazz dept at the University in Trondheim, where the first self initiated bands were established, things developed really fast – and Paal was nationally acknowledged at the age of 20. 

The forming of the quartet Element in 1993 in many ways represented the start of a new phase in Paal’s musical life. Element musically became a platform for several other groups with bassist Flaten and pianist Wiik, and lead to collaborations with Iain Ballamy and Chris Potter, amongst others. Paal moved to Oslo in 1996, where he joined and/or took part in the forming of bands like Vindaloo, SAN, Håkon Kornstad Tio, The Quintet and Frode Gjerstad Trio. He later on got more into self initiated projects and collaborations with Swedish musicians, such as pianist Sten Sandell and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. 

Paal played his first solo concert in 1999, and since then the solo concept has been an important part of his work: “Everyone should try doing some solo work, just to feel who you really are and what gets you going”. His solo album “Sticks and stones” was put out in 2001 on SOFA Rec. 

Being active in several bands at the same time has always been Paal’s deliberate working method. He is constantly conscious about the projects he is in, as his participation in each and one of them is fully dedicated. Playing is not about getting from start to goal, but rather being in an everlasting process, a continuous movement where each new piece of music performed is a prolongation of the latest. Hence, keeping focused and concentrating all energy around what’s happening there and then is of greatest importance - as is the freedom in the music, the ability of being free within the expression. 

All bands, although various styles and musical versatility in general, represent important pieces that make up a total, and all bands are formed or joined with a clear vision. Today Paal’s portfolio includes Atomic, School Days, The Thing, Frode Gjerstad Trio, Sten Sandell Trio, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Ken Vandermark, John Butcher, Mats Gustafsson, organist Nils Henrik Asheim and noise wizard Lasse Marhaug. And not to forget the recently joined Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet.

Before turning 30 Paal has stated his position as one of the most profiled drummers in Europe today, he has made numberless performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and USA and participated on more than 50 recordings. He runs his own annual festival – All Ears - for improvised music in Oslo, which is an important part of his musical life, and he plans to start his own recording label for vinyl productions. Like Pat Metheny put it in 2002, after having played with Paal at Molde International Jazz festival: “He is simply one of the best new musicians I’ve heard during the latest years!” And after having heard Paal in 9 different settings at the same festival, Down Beat reporter Dan Quelette stated: “His week at Molde proved a revelation: Nilssen-Love is one of the most innovative, dynamic and versatile drummers in jazz!”

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EXPO N.E.S.T. ism CC BRUGGE: "Het vertekende verhaal"

01/02/2026 - 13u00

Met beeldend werk van Peter Jonckheere.

Loopt van 5 februari tem 22 maart.

Vernissage op zondag 1 februari vanaf 14:00. Op uitnodiging.

Meer info zie pagina N.E.S.T.

Gerry Hemingway and Izumi Kimura

23/11/2025 - 16u00

Gerry Hemingway (1955) is an American drummer and composer.

Hemingway was a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.

Hemingway received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition in 2000, and was a student of Alan Dawson. He is a graduate of Foote School in New Haven. He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels Clean Feed, Enja, hatArt, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, and Tzadik. He owns his own label, Auricle.

Izumi Kimura is een Japanse pianiste en docent die nu in Ierland woont. Kimura doceert momenteel jazz en hedendaagse muziek aan de Dublin City University. Als performer en componist wordt ze geassocieerd met hedendaagse muziek en is misschien het best bekend voor haar debuutalbum Asymmetry uit 2010.

This duo began in 2016 as a series of residencies, rehearsals and performances in Ireland, and further evolved in 2018 in the context of a trio with bassist Barry Guy with the release of the recording “Illuminated Silence”. Both the duo and trio have since co-existed but it is the duo that has become a central platform for both players. There is by now a shared and well understood language between them that moves seamlessly between formal structures, spontaneous invention, as well as their unique interpretations of song. The release of “Kairos” in 2023 debuts this array of possibilities which continue to grow as a rich and varied performance platform for both musicians.

Writing for the WIRE about this release Bill Meyer summarizes.. "Dublin based Japanese pianist lzumi Kimura and Connecticut born, Switzerland based percussionist/vocalist Gerry Hemingway have recorded previously with Barry Guy, but Kairos is their first duo effort. While each brought a piece to this session, most of it is jointly credited, but it does not sound like a product of free improvisation so much as an investigation in how each can support the other's strengths. Even in free moments, the pianist is inexorably drawn to melodies, which Hemingway abets with complementary tonal lines on his vibes and drum kit. And Kimura, who combines preparations with conventional keyboard sounds, uses a staccato attack to reinforce the drummer's intricate constructions. lt's a complementary partnership." Bill Meyer / Jazz & Improv - The Wire October 2023

CONCERT DAVE REMPIS (reeds) & NICO CHKIFI (drums)

16/11/2025 - 15u00

PARAZZAR COMBINEERT EIGEN CONCERT met JAZZ BRUGGE!

Nico Chkifi (drums) & Dave Rempis (reeds) DOORS 3PM - CONCERT 4PM!! (Ipv (5PM)

CONCERT EINDIGT OM 5PM (OV) - BAR SLUIT OM 6PM

Parazzar gaat met u mee naar het concertgebouw (10min wandelen).

EERSTE CONCERT JAZZ BRUGGE ZONDAG 16 NOV START OM 6:30PM

RESERVEER NU UW PARAZZAR PROMO TICKET* aan 15€ ipv 25€ !!!!

SPAGHETTI BOLO OF VEGGIE AAN 15€ !! (Ipv 17,5€)

Combi PLUS : ENTREE EN SPAGHETTI : voor slechts 25€!

*Promo enkel geldig indien u een dagticket kocht voor zondag 16/11 van Jazz Brugge. Indien u enkel naar het parazzar concert komt, dan betaald u 20€ ingang + uw consumpties ter plaatse zijn de prijzen van de menukaart.

Dave Rempis and Nicolas Chkifi met during a week-long residency organized by Sound In Motion in Antwerp in April 2023 featuring Spectral - the longstanding American horn trio of Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, and Rempis - joining the brilliant European trio of Marta Warelis, Hugo Antunes and Nicolas Chkifi.  Following that successful collaboration, Rempis and Chkifi decided to explore their common interests and languages further, embarking on a new duo to explore their shared interest in both West African music and improvisation.
Dave Rempis is one of the most renowned saxophonists in Chicago and the American improvised music scene, known for his many bands like Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ballister, and Kuzu. He combines a powerful sound, phenomenal technique, and an infectious joy of being on stage.

https://www.daverempis.com/

Nico Chkifi is a versatile and highly musical drummer who leads Fnussjen, the quartet for which he composes. He has also performed with SuperNova and Laniakea, and alongside musicians such as John Dikeman, Seppe Gebruers, Hugo Antunes, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Jozef Dumoulin, and many others.

https://www.nicochkifi.com

CONCERT Joëlle Léandre & Gunda Gottschalk

26/10/2025 - 17u00

EXCLUSIEF BELGISCH CONCERT (UITVERKOCHT)

EXPO in N.E.S.T. van Frow Steeman en Lieven Herreman

25/10/2025 - 12u00

Met Vernissage en Performance op zaterdag 25 oktober vanaf 14:00

Edition Redux

12/10/2025 - 15u00

Edition Redux is the most recent of Ken Vandermark's ensembles, adding to the MacArthur Prize winner's internationally and critically acclaimed series of bands which include The Vandermark 5, FME, The Territory Band, The Resonance Ensemble, Entr'acte, Made To Break, and Marker.  In addition to Vandermark, who plays saxophones and clarinet with the group, this quartet is composed of Erez Dessel (keyboards), Lily Finnegan (drums), and Beth McDonald (tuba/electronics), who represent the next wave of Chicago’s creative music scene.

ROMMELTAFEL DAG in PARAZZAR

14/09/2025 - 08u00

Zondag 14 september = Rommel-Tafeldag. Parazzar biedt na bijna 18j verzamelen zijn "overbodige" spulletjes aan aan het publiek met weggeefprijzen. De hele dag vanaf 10:00 tot 16:00 staat het café vol met bierglazen, prullaria en snuisterijen die weg moeten. Met DJ's Ozzie en Chris Vervaet (Rombaux). Er is mogelijkheid om iets te eten doorlopend vanaf 11:30. Er zijn ook HotDogs, pannenkoeken, ... meer info op de flyer.

Ziv Taubenfeld-Kresten Osgood-Olie Brice

07/09/2025 - 15u00

EXPO JAN DE MEY

31/08/2025 - 12u00

Zomer expo in N.E.S.T.

CONCERT FDF trio is AFGELAST!!

22/06/2025 - 15u00

AFGELAST!!

ETERNAL TRIANGLE

25/05/2025 - 15u00

ETERNAL TRIANGLE is

Trevor Watts- Saxophones/ Composer, Veryan Weston- Nord Electric Keyboard  and Jamie Harris- Congas/ Percussion.

“the music breathes under other horizons: Hispanic, Latin American, Middle Eastern. With sometimes melancholy accents that often resolve themselves into intense pulsations, towards a lyricism that is as torn as it is heartbreaking.” Xavier Prevost 

“ Of course Watts is an absolutely amazing player and his saxophone improvisations sound as good as they did half a Century earlier”

Adam Baruch

“ the listener becomes bewitched by the melodic invention, the rhythmic fascination, the free shifts of Trevor Watts and the authentic lyricism that their music gives off. ”

JM Van schouwberg

JAAP BLONK & BIRGIT ULHER

04/05/2025 - 15u00

Birgit Ulher woont als freelance muzikant, geluidskunstenaar en componist in Hamburg. Na haar studie beeldende kunst ontwikkelde ze haar eigen speeltechnieken en voorbereidingen met trompet, radio, luidsprekers en voorwerpen. Haar werk omvat akoestische en elektro-akoestische projecten, solo-optredens, concert- en geluidsinstallaties, video's, conceptstukken en concerten op het gebied van geïmproviseerde/experimentele muziek. Ze heeft talloze beurzen ontvangen en reist internationaal met haar concertactiviteiten.

Jaap Blonk is vocalist, componist, dichter en beeldend kunstenaar. Hij studeerde wiskunde en musicologie. Begin jaren ’80 ontdekte hij de kracht en flexibiliteit van zijn stem en begon hij aan een langdurig onderzoek naar de fonetiek en de mogelijkheden van de menselijke stem. Hij heeft zich ontwikkeld tot een specialist in het creëren en uitvoeren van klankpoëzie en is een unieke vocale improvisator, ondersteund door een krachtige en ongeremde podium. In de loop der jaren heeft hij met live-elektronica een vergelijkbare flexibiliteit ontwikkeld als met zijn stem.

Intussen verschenen op 30 cd's met zijn eigen label Kontrans en ook een dozijn boeken met zijn beeldende werk zijn in verschillende landen gepubliceerd.

OPENING N.E.S.T.

20/04/2025 - 12u00

De deuren gaan binnenkort open van onze nieuwe RUIMTE genaamd N.E.S.T.

Met EXPO beeldend werk Peter Jonckheere (mixed media) en Peter Jacquemyn (sculpturen). Opening tijdens het Paasweekend 20 en 21 april / vrije toegang vanaf 14:00. De Expo loopt tem zondag 1 juni.

HIMSHE – ON HUMAN NATURE - Brugotta club (MaZ)

19/04/2025 - 15u00

Wij openen kort onze deuren van de EXPO as a preview nav het beeldend werk van Peter Jonckheere bij het event van Brugotta - CC Brugge. Van 17:00 tot 19:00.

https://www.ccbrugge.be/agenda/4355/met-o-a-himshe-hackedepicciotto-tje-jasper-vrancken-en-peter-jonckheere/himshe-on-human-nature

McPHEE SWELL TOKAR KUGEL

13/04/2025 - 18u00

Toegang 30€. Tickets via soulbar@parazzar.be

Joe McPhee: The tireless reed player’s multi-decade career serves as a road map of the international avant garde, encompassing performance, recording and cross-genre collaborations." - By Daniel Spicer, WIRE, February 2019
"... Joe McPhee's magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." mjd 5/02

"Steve Swell attacks and exploits the instrument's peculiarities as a race car driver would a Ferrari. No wind-blown instrument is more capable of tonal extremes than the trombone, a fact that Swell makes manifest with his howling glissandi and chattering chromaticism, to say nothing of a postbop linearity that would make J.J. Johnson proud. Swell has an extraordinary conventional technique which he puts to quite unconventional use, spiced liberally with an assortment of his own very personal idiosyncrasies." (Jazz Now Magazine, USA)

"Mark Tokar plays double bass with concentrated absorption and utter openness to the act’s contingent events, showing an unwavering focus from which the will of enclosing devotion and wisdom in a single entity transpires." - Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes
"Mark Tokar's larger-than-life tone and impeccable intonation is front-and-center …" - John Vincent Barron, Jazzreview.com

"Klaus Kugel is a model drummer" - Francis Davis, USA
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AAJ, USA

PHOTO CREDITS:

Joe McPhee by Photomusix/C.Marx
Steve Swell by Peter Gannushkin
Mark Tokar by Oleg Nitsko
KlausKugel by Photomusix/C.Marx

Album voorstelling / concert MOST met Peter Jacquemyn d.bass/voice & P.M. Zaleski voice

13/04/2025 - 15u00

Met special guest Jean-Luc Cappozzo (trompet)

Enkel op uitnodiging.

Boekvoorstelling "Straight Up, Without Wings" in aanwezigheid van Joe McPhee

13/04/2025 - 13u00

Enkel op uitnodiging.

Toneel in t'café: IN PARADISUM

30/03/2025 - 18u30

THEATERSOLO, uit het leven gegrepen. EEN MOEDER. EEN ZOON.

HOEVEEL BLIJFT ONGEZEGD?  Hoewel niet autobiografisch en niet ons verhaal,

draag ik deze voorstelling op aan mijn dierbare overleden moeder

Acteur: Bart Claeys, onder regie van Eric Meirhaeghe

Tickets: 10 EUR

Joëlle Léandre SOLO

24/11/2024 - 16u00

Joëlle Léandre, born in Aix-en-Provence in 1951, is a French contrabassist, composer and improviser.
In 1976, she was awarded the « Creative Associate of Arts », a one year grant to work in Buffalo, New York, with Morton Feldman. Joëlle Léandre is a laureat of the Villa Médicis “Hors les Murs” program which provided an opportunity to live and work in New York for a year (1981). She was also a recipient of the DAAD Scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - 1990) an artist-in-residence program and the Villa Kujoyama Scholarship (Kyoto, Japan 1998). In 2002, 2004 and 2006, Joëlle Léandre was a visiting professor of composition and improvisation and the Darius Milhaud Chair at Mills College in Oakland, California. Léandre’s work spans the globe. Her creative and performance activities, both solo and ensemble, have led her to the most prestigious European, American and Asian scenes. She has worked with Merce Cuningham, Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Giacinto Scelsi, Philippe Fenelon, Philippe Hersant, Steve Lacy, José Luis Campana, Betsy Jolas and Aldo Clementi. At ease with contemporary music ensembles, she has performed with L’Itineraire, L’Ensemble Intercontemporain and 2E2M in Paris. She has also collaborated with the greatest names in jazz and improvisation such as Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Irene Schweizer, William Parker, Barre Phillips, Pascal Contet, Hamid Drake, Steve Lacy, Lauren Newton, Peter Kowald, Urs Leimgruber, Mat Maneri, Roy Campbell, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Mark Naussef, Marilyn Crispell, India Cooke. About forty composers have composed for the bass, and several scores have been dedicated to her. In contemporary dance, she has been approached by choreographers and dancers such as Yano, Dominique Boivin, Mathilde Monnier, Elsa Wolliaston and Josef Nadj.
Joëlle Léandre has recorded more than 180 albums.
Her book, A Voix basse, is a collection of interviews with Franck Médioni (MF, 2008). This book was translated into English at Kadima (Israel). She was named “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite“  and most recently “Chevalier de l’ordre des Art et des Lettres” (France). In June 2023, Joëlle Léandre has been honoured in New York City with one of the highest award for arts : the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Terrie Hessels and Ken Vandermark

18/11/2024 - 19u00

This is not a Holiday European tour

Joe McPhee and Raymond Boni: A conversation between 2 giants

03/11/2024 - 16u00

Follow up: A second conversation between 2 giants. 2 oude vrienden zoeken mekaar na jaren terug op ten huize Parazzar, en vuurwerk zal het zijn. Een intieme set van grote virtuositeit. Joe McPhee wordt dezelfde dag 85! Vier je mee?

Trio Ken Vandermark - Paul Lytton - Nate Wooley

15/09/2024 - 15u00

After a tour in the United States in April of 2022, festival appearances in Belgrade and Stockholm later that year, and performances in Belgium during the autumn of 2023, Paul Lytton (drums), Ken Vandermark (reeds), and Nate Wooley (trumpet), three key figures of the international experimental and improvised music scenes, will come together for a unique series of concerts in England, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands during September of 2024.  Vandermark and Wooley have been working as a duo for almost a decade, touring in both the States and in Europe, and have released three critically acclaimed albums together.  Both have performed and recorded with Lytton many times, and the three of them issued an album of trio material as part of the double CD, The Nows, in 2012.  The trio’s upcoming tour in Europe will be an extremely rare chance to hear Paul Lytton perform.  His history connected to improvised music is legendary, and this collaboration with Vandermark and Wooley, two of the most significant cutting-edge musicians of their generations, will exceptional.

Paul Lytton, a central figure in the British free improvisation movement of the 1960s and 70s which included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, and Paul Rutherford, was instrumental in reshaping the way drums and percussion were viewed in free music. He is one of a handful of percussionists from that time whose work allowed the drum kit to become even more free from the timekeeping constraints of jazz up to that point; the instrument becoming less a set of drums and more a series of membranes on which to create an atmosphere. His earliest experiments in homemade instruments and electronics with Evan Parker have spurred generations on to look outside systems with names such as "jazz" and "improv" and to explore new modes of communication in the moment.

Ken Vandermark is an avant-garde composer, improviser, saxophonist/clarinetist, curator, writer; and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in music 1999.  He moved to Chicago from Boston in 1989 and has worked continuously from the early 1990s onward, both as a performer and organizer in North America, Europe, Latin America, Japan, and Ethiopia, recording in a large array of contexts, with many internationally renowned musicians. 

Nate Wooley’s solo playing has often been cited as being a part of an international revolution in improvised trumpet and has gathered international acclaim.  Time Out New York has called him “an iconoclastic trumpeter”, and Dave Douglas has said, “Nate Wooley is one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole”.  His collaborative work as a composer has been celebrated by critics and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Welcome back Ken en Nate!

DJ Ken Dust: Turnin'Ttables funky and unwind into night

18/05/2024 - 19u00

No Plan Man

21/04/2024 - 15u00

No Plan Man

Visit from Germany

25/03/2024 - 18u00

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