Wal House Of Jazz

Jean-Marie PETERKEN, the organizer of the famous annual "Jazz à Liège" festival, has put together a band that he would like to become an official Walloon jazz band, a subsidized entity which would in his mind present samples of the jazz talents from the French speaking part of Belgium.
The idea is to build up a band that could take different shapes and line-ups, around a core composed of the three established talents of Richard ROUSSELET (tp), Fabrice ALLEMAN (saxes) and Phil ABRAHAM (tb).

For their first appearance on May 9, 2003 at the "Jazz à Liège" festival (broadcasted and recorded by the Belgian RTBF radio), the rhythm section was composed of excellent young and promising talents : Pascal MOHY (piano), Samuel GERSTMANS (double bass) and Xavier ROGÉ (drums).