KollecTiv 2024
- Start date : 13/03/2024 19:00
- Type : Concert
- Venue : Jacques Pelzer Jazz Club
- Address : Boulevard Ernest Solvay 493, 4000 Liège, Belgique
KollecTiv is a collective of Antwerp musicians who have been playing together for over 15 years, and who include some of the biggest names on the Belgian jazz scene.
The music is composed by such jazz greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk and Wayne Shorter, and reworked for the quartet ......
These soundscapes are also found in their compositions, giving a contemporary vision of jazz while respecting the tradition of jazz and improvised music.
The KollecTiv Quartet is made up of Koen Nys on tenor saxophone, a true globetrotter. He has travelled the world from Toronto to New York and Tokyo. He currently plays alongside KollecTiv in the Muze Jazz Orchestra, has his own Mazzle trio with Bram Weijters and Lionel Beuvens and plays in various projects.
Ondine Quackelbeen, double bassist, is director and co-founder of the Jazzstudio in Antwerp and founder of the Popsoulstudio. In 1998, she was one of the founders of the European federation EMMEN (European Modern Music Educational Network). She is one of the few female jazz bassists and has played with the Forest Jazz Quintet, the Blue Jazz Quartet and the Trio Vongole. Sentido and low tones.
Drummer Herman Pardon is one of Belgium's most respected jazz musicians. He studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Peter Ypma, Fred Krens and Hans Van Oosterhout. He has taken workshops with Jeff Hamilton, Adam Nussbaum and Steve Smith, among others, and private lessons with Steve Clover.
He has also played as a freelance drummer with Dick De Graaf, Bob Brookmeyer, Octurn, Jan Muës Sextet, etc., and recorded CDs with Ernst Vranckx, Bert Joris and John Ruocco. He is active in groups such as Score Man, T-unit 4, Fabrizio Graceffa Quartet, Zygomatic, The jazz station big band and Piet Verbist Trio.
Guitarist Günther Valckenier is a founding member of KollecTiv. He has taken lessons with Pierre van Dormael, Ben Boogaart, Hendrick Braekman, Peter Hertmans, Ben Sluys, Pierre Vaiana, Frank Vaganée, David Crane... and has attended workshops with Serge Lazarevich, among others. As a musician, he has played with : Blue Jazz Quartet, Hallucinations with Swa Mercelis, Victor Da Costa, Herman Pardon, Chris Mentens, Ewout Pierreux, Dirk Dergent, Dirk Vanderlinden, koen Nys and Richard Rou.
Admission: €12 general public
10€ for students