Thomas Champagne Random House
- Constituted : 15/01/2014
Random House is a contemporary jazz Quintet formed by the Belgian saxophonist Thomas Champagne.
The project began as a Quartet in 2014, when the Théâtre des Doms offers to the Brussels musician a 5-days residency in Avignon.
He joined forces with guitarist, arranger and composer Guillaume Vierset, double bassist Ruben Lamon and drummer Alain Deval. The group creates and develops its modern jazz universe, halfway between the heritage of post bop jazz, free and pop/rock colors.
In October 2017, the release of their first album Sweet Day confirms them on this journey and they perform all over Belgium.
In March 2019, Thomas gave the band a new direction, inviting one of the most prominent musicians on the New York scene in the recent years, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, voted #1 Rising Star Trumpet in DownBeat's Critics Poll in 2019 and 2021.
They recorded the second album of the band, Tide, released on Igloo Records in September 2021 in Flagey (Brussels).
In 2022, the quintet is selected to play at the Belgian Jazz Meeting showcase and Random House records the third album Keep it Up which will be released in 2024.
The album now features French trumpeter Pierre-Antoine Savoyat and drummer Yves Peeters from Ghent. It's a new turning point, a new incarnation, a new band for Keep it Up!
Cradled by the great names of modern jazz such as Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins or Lee Konitz, Thomas Champagne has also integrated more current colours into the new music of the quintet, drawing on the New York scene of recent decades (Mark Turner and Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tim Berne, Nasheet Waits, Ellery Eskelin, Ralph Alessi Quartet, Aaron Parks or Ambrose Akinmusire).
