Friday, February 13, 2026
VARIOUS ARTISTS - JAZZ MIDDELHEIM VOLUME 1
- Various Artists: Jazz Middelheim Volume 1
(2025, lp, Belgium, vrt)
Released by Belgian national radio station VRT in 2025, "Jazz Middelheim Volume 1" presented recordings from the Antwerp jazz festival: Aka Moon, Flat Earth Society, Greetings From Mercury,...
It says "Volume 1". Does this imply that it may become a series?
It says "Volume 1". Does this imply that it may become a series?
IGORRR - AMEN
I have friends that make lists.
Lists with concerts they attended and / or albums they bought.
Adding their top 5, top 10, or whatever.
And they always know to surprise me.
Igorrr is a band that I had heard of, but never really checked out.
Fortunately, we now have Bandcamp and YouTube to help us with that.
-- recommendation: Uli Mrosek
THE MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE
Catching up and enjoying The Meridian Arts Ensemble.
Meridian Arts Ensemble: Timbrando
(2008, sacd)
The MAE added: This is our ninth CD, and it is being released in the year of our twentieth anniversary. The CD is a kind of travelogue, featuring music we picked up during our tour of Latin and South America and the United States. Several of the pieces on this disc were commissioned for our visit to the Subtropics Festival in Miami, a city that was a major crossroads of Latin culture in 1997. Other pieces were collected abroad or from friends we made there. We brought all this music back to our home base, New York, another intercultural meeting place. And now to listeners wherever they may be. Timbrando is Portuguese for making a tone or sound (it is related to the word timbre).
- Meridian Arts Ensemble: Brink
(2006, sacd)
The MAE added: On this disc, we present three commissioned works, composed by David Sanford, Elliott Sharp and Nick Didkovsky. For a long time, we wanted to put together concert programmes with just a few large-scale works, each of which fully developed their ideas. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the cusp of something new. All three pieces draw on different musical styles available to the contemporary listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970s television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a preaching minister. Yet each piece creates its own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Mennonite Church on the town square of Deventer, the Netherlands, on a large pedestrian square locally known as the Brink.
-- info & more: Danny Mathys
STEVE KIMOCK, BOBBY VEGA, ALAN HERTZ, AND RAY WHITE
KVHW = Steve Kimock, Bobby Vega, Alan Hertz, Ray White
The band existed only for a couple of years and released two CDs: "9/28/98 and 10/24/98" (also called "KVHW" or "Live In Concert") and "Live @ The Lip".
Next to these two, Steve Kimock made 9 digital-download-only albums available through his website: 4 albums with demos and 5 concert registrations.
Through the wonders of the internet, I recently got hold of "Live @ The Lip" which is the hard one to find.
What a band. And Ray White, what a voice !!
- KVHW: 9/28/98 and 10/24/98
(1998, cd, USA, private release / KVHW)
- KVHW: Live @ The Lip
(1999, cd, USA, private release / KVHW)
The other albums:
- KVHW: KVHW 05.05.98 – Live From Studio E
(2005, download, --, steve kimock) -
KVHW: KVHW 08.14.98 – Live From Studio E, Vol. 2
(2005, download, --, steve kimock) -
KVHW: KVHW 01.14.99 – Live From Studio E, Vol. 3
(2005, download, --, steve kimock) -
KVHW: KVHW 01.15.99 – Live From Studio E, Vol. 4
(2005, download, --, steve kimock) -
KVHW: KVHW 09.18.98 – Maritime Hall – San Francisco, CA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock)
- incl. ‘City Of Tiny Lites’ (F. Zappa) - KVHW: KVHW 09.28.98 – Powerhouse Brewing Company, Sebastopol, CA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock)
- incl. ‘City Of Tiny Lites’ (F. Zappa) - KVHW: KVHW 02.26.99 – Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock)
- incl. ‘City Of Tiny Lites’ (F. Zappa) - KVHW: KVHW 04.02.99 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock)
- incl. ‘City Of Tiny Lites’, ‘The Illinois Enema Bandit’ (F. Zappa) -
KVHW: KVHW 04.03.99 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock) -
KVHW: KVHW 12.03.99 – The Middle East – Cambridge, MA
(2005, download, --, steve kimock)
- incl. ‘City Of Tiny Lites’ (F. Zappa)
And for the less official part, there are of course a large amount of (excellent) audience concert recordings available as well. Both audio and video.
HAM SESSIONS OUTDOOR
May 23, 24 & 25 - 2026
Ham Sessions
Ghent, BELGIUM
23/05/2026
- 15u - HU! medium large
= Fil Caporali, Tom Bourgeois, Théo Lanau, Lucia Pires, Michel Hatzigeorgiou - 17u - Gert-Jan Dreessen Quartet
= Gert-Jan Dreessen, Jean-Paul Estievenart, Bram De Looze, Cyrille Obermüller - 19u - DON MARSH V
= Warre Van de Putte, Matthias De Waele, Janos Bruneel, Jean-Paul Estievenart
24/05/2026
- 15u - Le Monde Merveilleux de Pépito ft Alexandra Grimal
= Pierre-Antoine Savoyat, Simon Groppe, Fil Caporali, Oscar Georges, Alexandra Grimal - 17u - PANOPLY (USA)
= John O’Gallagher, Michael Formanek, Jeff Williams - 19u - Muze Jazz Orchestra (MJO)
= Lieven Cambré, Koen Nys, Bart De Lausnay, Jasper De Roeck, Gustavo Jaramillo, David La Mela, Tom Van Dyck, Jeroen Reggers, David Demuynck, Lennert Baerts
25/05/2026
- 15u - Toonmoment 3-daags Coaching Project Nate Wood door trio studenten van het KASK Conservatorium Gent
- 17u - Echoes of Zoo
= Nathan Daems, Bart Vervaeck, Lieven Van Pée, Falk Schrauwen - 19u - NATE WOOD “fOUR”
Thursday, February 12, 2026
AL MUSTAQIL - MUSICA PLEBEA NELL'ERA DEL TECNOFEUDALESIMO
Al Mustaqil.
World music, but not the pretty kind.
Info from Mandaï:
https://www.mandai.be/info.php?id_mandai=53202
ERIC LEGNINI TRIO - MISS SOUL
- Eric Legnini Trio: Miss Soul
(2005, cd France, label blue)
Earlier this week, I got introduced to the music of Belgian pianist Eric Legnini.
More specific to the Eric Legnini Trio's "Miss Soul" album.
More specific to the Eric Legnini Trio's "Miss Soul" album.
Particularly cheerful and very energetic.
Original pieces plus some excellent tunes by Phineas Newbor Jr., by Björk (!!), and by Keith Jarrett.
Original pieces plus some excellent tunes by Phineas Newbor Jr., by Björk (!!), and by Keith Jarrett.
Performed by Eric Legnini (piano); Matthias Allamane and Rosario Bonaccorso (bass), and Franck Agulhon (drums).
Lovely !
Here's 'The Memphis Dude', the opener:
TWO DEUS ALBUMS WILL GET A DELUXE RE-RELEASE
Belgian band dEUS sampled Frank Zappa’s ‘Little Umbrellas on ‘W.C.S. (First Draft)’ on their first album.
It got released on vinyl, CD and on cassette in 1994.
The album is getting a deluxe re-issue next month. The 2 CD or 3 LP set will include lost B-sides and rarities.
"In A Bar Under The Sea" will get a similar treatment !
The album is getting a deluxe re-issue next month. The 2 CD or 3 LP set will include lost B-sides and rarities.
"In A Bar Under The Sea" will get a similar treatment !
Both to be released in March.
Here's ‘W.C.S. (First Draft)’
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