Bruno Castellucci - 80th birthday party @ Campus Corso Leuven

Being a self-made-man, Italo-Belgian virtuoso drummer Bruno Castellucci has been a leading musician worldwide for over five decades.

He can be heard on hundreds of recordings and in thousands of concerts, from the few leaders with whom he has played for sometimes more than thirty or forty years, such as Toots Thielemans, Peter Herbolzheimer, Jan Akkerman, to many other luminaries such as Jaco Pastorius, Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Chaka Khan, Sammy Davis Jr. John Scofield, the Count Basie Big Band, Astor Piazzola, …. It would be much quicker to draw up a list of our favorite musicians with whom he has not played.

With his group Legacy, he is celebrating a career spanning over sixty years, as well as his 80th birthday in 2024. To this end, he has surrounded himself with world-class Belgian musicians, who can be found in numerous projects, both Belgian and international.

Castellucci Legacy’s music travels easily through various styles and influences of the jazziztic heritage, putting its very personal stamp on it, by means of original compositions and arrangements of great standards, underlining the interactivity of the band members, and the fluidity of their musical communication.

A resounding success as the only musical group at the celebrations of the centenary of music pedagogue Dante Agostini in 2022 in Urbino, Italy, the group is now performing for the first time in Belgium.