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Sunday 14/09/2025

Pianist and composer Alex Koo is hailed by the renowned American Downbeat Jazz Magazine as "stunningly original" and is known for his genre-bending music. Seemingly effortlessly, he blends jazz with...

Sunday 31/08/2025

Saturday 09/08/2025

Instrumentation that opens new perspectives and deeply stimulates the imagination Eve Beuvens, piano / Lynn Cassiers, vocals / Lennart Heyndels, bass The Project Inspired by the humor and dream...

Friday 08/08/2025

Living Music in Memory of Lili Boulanger Tom Bourgeois, sax, clarinet / Alex Koo, piano / Lennart Heyndels, double bass / Théo Lanau, drums / Guests: Veronika Harcsa, vocals, lyrics / Vincent Court...

Friday 20/06/2025

Saturday 07/06/2025

Ben Sluijs – sax Jean-Paul Estiévenart – trumpet Antoine Pierre – drums Lennart Heyndels – double bass Pascal Mohy – piano

Monday 26/05/2025

A jam session at Rataplan offers musicians the space to experiment, grow and create together. But even as an audience, you can see something magical unfold.   Curator Jon Birdsong invites differ...

Saturday 24/05/2025

 

Saturday 26/04/2025

Friday 25/04/2025

Alex Koo – piano & vocals Dré Pallemaerts – drums Lennart Heyndels – double bass
Alex Koo – piano & vocals Dré Pallemaerts – drums Lennart Heyndels – double bass

Saturday 19/04/2025

Inspired by the humour and dreamlike quality of the poems of Robert Frost and Edna Millay, Eve has used several of their texts as starting points for new compositions. To perform them, she wanted ins...

Sunday 23/03/2025

We close Leuven Jazz 2025 on a high note, with a fabulous quartet paying tribute to Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).Among the most intensely admired composers in jazz, Wayne Shorter is a...

Thursday 20/03/2025

 Lysis – An exploration of poetry and imagination  Belgian composer and musician Eve was inspired by the humor and dreamlike atmosphere of poems by Robert Frost and Edna Millay. This poetry...

Sunday 16/03/2025

Thursday 27/02/2025

Friday 21/02/2025

Friday 07/02/2025

Young Belgian-Japanese pianist Alex Koo is praised in Belgium and far beyond. They compare him to the legend Keith Jarrett because "Koo's playing is of the same rare high level." (Trouw-NL) Now he re...

Saturday 09/11/2024

Saxophonist Vincent Thekal and pianist-composer Fabian Fiorini join forces to revisit the repertoire of Thelonious Monk in their own way, exploring the perspectives offered by the master's music. Pre...

Saturday 14/09/2024

After a long and intense collaboration with Sasha Vovk in the Brussels duo JUICY, Julie Rens is taking advantage of a break from the project to explore her own personal musical universe. "I started...

Friday 13/09/2024

Friday 01/12/2023

What happens when Joachim Badenhorst, unfazed by trends and expectations, unleashes his boundless imagination? The answer lies in Zero Years Kid, an eclectic quartet that effortlessly defies conventi...

Wednesday 15/11/2023

With this new project, sax player Tom Bourgeois honors composer Lili Boulanger, shooting star of 20th Century classical music. Attracted by both the language of modern jazz and impressionist, at time...

Wednesday 08/11/2023

With Tom bourgeois (sax), Alex Koo (pn), Lennart Heyndels (cb) & Théo Lanau (dr) This new jazz quartet project focuses on the singular repertoire of early 20th-century composer Lili Boulanger....