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  • 15.06Also Madness, Gil Scott-Heron and Kenny Werner at Gent Jazz 2010
    The programme is completed with names like:

    Madness
    Gil Scott-Heron
    Soil & “Pimp” Sessions
    Vive Le Jazz (het nieuwe jazzproject van Vive La Fête)
    Cibelle
    Odean Pope and his All Star “Odean’s List”
    Julian Lage Group
    radioKUKAorkest
    Root

    Toots Thielemans choses for his ‘Special project’ for pianist Kenny Werner and guitar player Oscar Castro-Neves.

    Click here for an overview of the complete programme    posted on 2010-06-15 14:49:40, by davy
  • 09.06Concert Daniel Lanois Black Dub’ cancelled
    Daniel Lanois had a serious traffic accident last weekend. As a result, Lanois has been forced to cancel the whole European Black Dub tour for this July. This means also the concert at the Gent Jazz Festival is cancelled. We are trying to find a substitute as soon as possible.    posted on 2010-06-09 10:00:00, by davy
  • 06.04Ornette Coleman, Kruder & Dorfmeister & Gilberto Gil at Gent Jazz FestivalThe programme of this festival is completed with:

    Ornette Coleman
    Pat Metheny Group
    Gilberto Gil
    Toots Thielemans
    Kruder & Dorfmeister
    Mariza
    Kurt Elling
    The Cinematic Orchestra
    Stanley Clarke feat. Hiromi

    Also Christian Mendoza Group, Greg Houben Trio, Pierre Vaiana & Salvatore Bonafede feat. Manolo Cabras, Jungle Boldie will perform at the edition 2010.

    Click here for an overview of the programme.    posted on 2010-04-06 11:27:42, by davy
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  • 21 06Trixie Whitley stands in for Black Dub with exclusive special project, with Marc Ribot among others, at Gent Jazz Festival
    Trixie Whitley comes to Ghent July 18. Whitley will present a proper project to close this edition of the Gent Jazz Festival.

    The concert of Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub was cancelled earlier. Daniel Lanois had a serious traffic accident. As a result the complete Black Dub tour was cancelled and also the concert at Gent Jazz Festival on the closing day July 18.

    Click here for an overview of the programme.
    posted on 2010-06-21 11:08:27, by davy

July 7-18, 2010: Gent Jazz Festival

a mix of young talent and international musicians with a well-established reputation. During the first part of the festival, you will enjoy mainstream and avant-garde jazz. As usual, the second part focusses on jazz fusion of divers music movements.