Next events
Wednesday 13/07/2022
Those who were at Gent Jazz in the summer of 2019 understand why we had to ask Novastar back. With no more than a guitar and the warm glow of his voice, the singer-songwriter gave everyone an unforget...
20h15
Mauro Pawlowski releases his first album under his own name after 20 years. Eternal Sunday Drive will be released after the summer; you may already know the first singles "Always Someone", "Spotlight"...
18h30
"The world changes a little when you listen to music". Whoever sees singer and guitarist Emmy d'Arc at work once, knows perfectly well what she means.
Emmy grew up with music. She loves to sing, firs...
17h00
Tuesday 12/07/2022
It's been since 2008 that Melody Gardot performed at our festival and since this has been a ridiculously long time ago, we had to ask her again. For those of you who dare to wonder why we're doing thi...
22h30
An ode to the music of Latin America and the Caribbean. That is what the Ghentian with Puerto Rican roots refers to with his fifth studio album Flore and proves once again that he is a very strong and...
20h15
Has the Norwegian-Brazilian Charlotte Dos Santos not yet appeared on your radar? Then we'll change that at Gent Jazz. The independent producer, singer, composer and arranger makes music that is comple...
18h30
Rutger Mathys – harmonica
Elias D'hooge – keys
Achilles De Raedt – guitar
Iskander Moens – bass
Tibo Polleunis – drums
Shikata Ga Nai was meant to be from the very begi...
16h45
Sunday 10/07/2022
Precisely 55 years ago, Van Morrison and his Northern Irish band Them unleashed the rock & roll classic ‘Gloria' on the world – as a B-side! His first solo single, the timeless ‘Brown E...
20h00
Daniel Lanois is a jack-of-all-trades. He makes his own music, but has also worked as a producer with a long list of international giants, including Bob Dylan, U2, Brian Eno and Neil Young. His own mu...
17h45
London Jazz Calling! When we say we've got mesmerizing people on stage, you can be sure that's not a lie. Award-winning vocalist Judi Jackson was first introduced to Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and El...
16h00
Steven De bruyn: harmonica
Jasper Hautekiet: double bass
Harmonica and double bass, two instruments that couldn't be more different, both in size and sound. And yet, these are the tools brothers i...
14h15
Sam De Nef: vocals / guitar
Sam De Nef, a young singer-songwriter and composer living in Antwerp plans his first album release Dawn/Dusk in October on Unday Records. Sam is a storyteller, in the...
12h30
Saturday 09/07/2022
On 9 July living jazz legends will take the Gent Jazz stage by storm. American jazz musician Archie Shepp and pianist Jason Moran, who released a new masterpiece last year with Let My People Go, are b...
22h30
The African-American tradition will be shaped on 9 July by the dream team of saxophonist Charles Lloyd and guitarist Bill Frisell, who unleashed a pearl of music on the world with their Tone Poem. By...
20h15
Hendrik Lasure and Casper Van De Velde were still teenagers without a driver's license when they took the Belgian jazz scene by storm. Since then, they have been awfully busy and became much-respected...
18h15
What do you get when you bring together an award-winning saxophonist and a renowned trumpet player? Exactly: a masterly display of energy and liveliness. Partners in arms Joe Lovano – the sax leg...
16h15
Friday 08/07/2022
We'd love to know what potion Manchester mixes in the tap water, because it must be incredible stuff. With The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, The Stone Roses, Oasis and many others, the city spawned...
23h00
Some musicians reach for your soul, like Nina Simone. So does Lady Blackbird, named after the iconic "Blackbird" Nina Simone wrote in 1963, at the height of the black civil rights movement. The (amazi...
21h15
This musician from the South London jazz scene found his musical inspiration in funk and soul when writing his politically engaged songs. The former guitarist of the amazing band KOKOROKO started his...
19h30