Ten years after her last quartet release, saxophonist Marjan Van Rompay (37) returns with a new album: “On Track“.
Together with bassist Janos Bruneel, also her life partner, she composed new music for a personal album that references both her musical journey and her second great passion: long- distance running. “Running helps me organize things, create space, find balance. Music is an extension of that.”
Marjan is an alto saxophonist with exceptional vocal qualities in her playing, and the music she writes often feels and sounds like what could be called instrumental singer-songwriting. These are two typical and defining aspects of her musical personality that also indicate that she has always gone her own way in search of her voice on an instrument that has very much defined the sound of the music we call jazz.
Live, her band does function like a jazz band, with an improvised approach to her songs, and plenty of lyrical input from her rhythm section in support of her lilting, warm and soulful sound.
- Released : 01/10/2025
- Recorded : April 2025
- Supports : CD, LP, digital
- Sound engineer : Cyrille Obermüller
- Label : MVR Music
- Studio : Rockstar Recordings
