Events
Sunday 19/03/2023
Farfar is a five-piece Mediterranean fusion band from Antwerp. A unique style with influences of Spanish grooves and North African melodies makes their concerts a musical adventure that incites daydr...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 16:30
Tiensevest 102, Leuven, België
This trio is built around Alexandra Gadzina, a vocalist of the new wave of Flemish jazz. In 2019, she and her band Aegle were in the finals of the Mechelen Jazz Contest. Her compositions bring poetic...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 16:30
Windmolenstraat 21, Kortenberg, België
In this intimate living room setting, multi-talented instrumentalist Naima Joris plays solo and offers us a carefully selected repertoire of her own songs and interpretations, intended to comfort, bu...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 16:00
Spaarstraat 163, Leuven, België
Once upon a time, when the dinosaurs still spoke, saxophonist Joppe Bestevaar and bassist Lara Rosseel created 'Le Baron Fauteuille' on a street corner in Leuven. Then with a cargo bike through the s...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 15:30
Wijgmaalbroek 21, Leuven, België
Spanish jazz guitarist Albert Vila, who lives in Brussels, takes you on a journey from Antonio Carlos Jobim and American jazz standards to gems by Nick Drake, The Beatles and Bob Marley.
Albert Vil...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 15:00
Constantin Meunierstraat 2, Leuven, België
In 2015, trumpeter Yamen Martini moved from Syria to Belgium, where he met accordionist Piet Maris. Together they worked on music for a theatre play in 2016. Then Piet invited Yamen as a guest musici...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 15:00
Wingerdstraat 14, Leuven, België
Loverman is the solo project of James De Graef, former keyboardist and bassist with Shht and half of the electro duo Partners. He was already allowed to open at Gent Jazz. His debut single Into the N...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 14:00
Remylaan 16, 3018 Leuven, België
Pianist Ernst Vranckx (°1966) and bassist Chris Mentens (°1957) have actually known each other for a long time. Ever since the 1980s, they occasionally play together in various formations, including...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 13:00
Gerard Vander Lindenstraat 8, Leuven, België
Double bassist Basile Rahola studied at the École nationale de musique, danse et art dramatique in Villeurbanne and lives in Barcelona. He forms a quartet under his own name and also plays with the T...
Sun. 19/03/2023 - 11:00
J.P. Minckelersstraat 48, Leuven, België
Saturday 18/03/2023
In March 2020, right before the first corona lockdown, American saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin launched the album Pursuance: The Coltranes, a collection of compositions by Alice and John Coltrane. It w...
Sat. 18/03/2023 - 20:00
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
Friday 17/03/2023
Strange Meetings is a new concert series curated by Charel Maes (sax), Lukas Jouck (drums) and Christoph Götzen (guitar), three students who found each other during their studies at the conservatory...
Fri. 17/03/2023 - 20:00
Eénmeilaan 35, 3010 Leuven, België
For the 43rd edition of the B-Jazz International Contest, Muziekmozaïek and Leuven Jazz are looking for young Belgian jazz talent that is ready to conquer (inter)national stages.
During this Belgia...
Fri. 17/03/2023 - 19:00
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
As an annual tradition, Leuven Jazz presents several theme combos of the jazz department at LUCA School of Arts. Under the guidance of their tutor, students will compile a repertoire based on a speci...
Fri. 17/03/2023 - 12:15
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
Thursday 16/03/2023
It is no coincidence that Tigran Hamasyan is considered by the young generation of jazz musicians as one of the most distinguished pianists of his era. Like no other, Tigran fuses powerful jazz impro...
Thu. 16/03/2023 - 20:00
Het Depot
- Martelarenplein 12
In this unique creation, freestyle dance is linked to the freestyle jazz of the KAU trio and saxophonist Maxime Dereux. The best dancers in Belgium represent their style in a 1 vs 1 format. Each danc...
Thu. 16/03/2023 - 19:00
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
DJANGO
Django Reinhardt is considered the pioneer of (European) guitar jazz and the father of so-called swing jazz. Born in a village in Hainaut, Reinhardt was a gipsy, a group of people persecuted...
Thu. 16/03/2023 - 16:00
Diestsestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, België
As an annual tradition, Leuven Jazz presents several theme combos of the jazz department at LUCA School of Arts. Under the guidance of their tutor, students will compile a repertoire based on a speci...
Thu. 16/03/2023 - 12:15
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
Wednesday 15/03/2023
Bigger, faster, bolder and more frantic than any of the other table theatres in his repertoire, Benjamin Verdonck’s new show is a cross between a meticulous choreography and a jam session gone wild....
Wed. 15/03/2023 - 20:00
30CC/Wagehuys
- 3000 Leuven
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist-composer Jozef Dumoulin have been making music together for more than 20 years.
A long and fascinating list of events led them to set...
Wed. 15/03/2023 - 20:00
Lemmensberg 3, 3000 Leuven, België
As an annual tradition, Leuven Jazz presents several theme combos of the jazz department at LUCA School of Arts. Under the guidance of their tutor, students will compile a repertoire based on a speci...
Wed. 15/03/2023 - 12:15
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
Tuesday 14/03/2023
Ragtime
New York, early 20th century. Architect Stanford White is shot by millionaire Harry K. Thaw for the alleged affair with his wife Evelyn. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a prosperous black ragtime p...
Tue. 14/03/2023 - 19:00
Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9c, 3000 Leuven, België
Book presentation (in Dutch), followed by a live gig by saxophonist Jeroen Vanbever.
Tue. 14/03/2023 - 18:15
Schrijnmakersstraat 17, 3000 Leuven, België
As an annual tradition, Leuven Jazz presents several theme combos of the jazz department at LUCA School of Arts. Under the guidance of their tutor, students will compile a repertoire based on a speci...
Tue. 14/03/2023 - 12:15
30CC/Schouwburg
- 3000 Leuven
Sunday 12/03/2023
In recent years, Hanne De Backer has reached the top of the European improvisation scene. In 2017, she founded the changing collective g a b b r o, which aims to improvise in unusual places such as a...
Sun. 12/03/2023 - 20:00
Kolonel Begaultlaan 21, 3012 Leuven, België