Jeroen Van Herzeele
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Jeroen Van Herzeele

After having completed highschool, specializing in music, Jeroen attends jazz lessons at the Antwerp Jazz Studio, with Dave PIKE, Peter HERTMANS and John RUOCCO. He also attended workshops with Joe LOVANO, Dave LIEBMAN, Steve GROSSMAN, Bill PIERCE.

In '99, he receives the Belgian Django d'Or.


He now teaches saxophone and ensemble at Royal Brussels Conservatory.

Plays (and did play) in numerous groups :

    Toots THIELEMANS
    Chris JORIS Experience
    MÄÄK's SPIRIT
    Olivier TOMAS and Co
    EMANON FIVE
    WISSELS - LINX Quartet
    Philip CATHERINE
    Homage To Jaco Pastorius (Michel Hatzigeorgiou )
    Dave PIKE
    ACT BIG BAND
    OCTURN,
    Nathalie LORIERS Quartet
    SAX NO END
    ODE FOR JOE
    VARIATIONS ON A LOVE SUPREME
    ALICE's 5 MOONS
    TODAY's SPECIAL
    Ivan PADUART Quartet
    François DESCAMPS "Hamp digs Ham"
    Kris DEFOORT's DREAMTIME
    Marco LOCURCIO Sextet

As a leader or co-leader : He leads his own trio, he co-leads MÄÄK's SPIRIT with trumpet player Laurent BLONDIAU.
In a more contemporary acid-jazz-rock-rap vein, he leads Greetings from Mercury.
Festivals:

    North Sea Jazz Festival (with Octurn)- Den Haag (1994)
    Prague - EBU Big Band (1995)
    Barcelona - Poetry Project (1995)
    Middelheim Jazz Festival - Antwerp
    Stockholm-Gothenburg-Uppsala Tour - Chris Joris Experience (1997)
    Montreal Jazz Festival - Octurn (1997)
    Knitting Factory ( New York ) - Octurn (1997)
    Syria and Lebanon - ( Jazz Caravan ) - Ode For Joe (1997)
    Liège Jazz Festival
    "Festival des Lundis d'Hortense" - Brussels

ADDITIONAL DISCOGRAPHY
(See top of page for main discography)

Jeroen VAN HERZEELE Trio "At the Cross Roads" (Carbon 7 - 017 - 1995)
Fabrizio CASSOL / Kris DEFOORT "Variations On a Love Supreme" (W.E.R.F - 005 - 1995)
Nathalie LORIERS Quartet "Dance Or Die" (Igloo IGL 105 - 1993)
Diederik WISSELS - David LINX Group"If One More Day" (TWI970-2- Crepuscule - 1993)
TOMAS and Co le Singulier des Pluriels (1996, Tomas and Co)

Read an interview of Jeroen VAN HERZEELE in the Journal of the Lundis d'Hortense (in French).