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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
  • 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
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  • 20 07Gent Jazz Festival looks back at strong edition
    The two festival weekends attracted around 35 000 visitors to the Gent Jazz Festival. The concert of the Chick Corea Freedom Band and their jam session at the end of the concert was definitely one of the highlights of this 2010 edition.

    Other remarkable concerts were the concert of the Belgian saxophone player Pierre Vaiana, the Stanley Clarke Band with a remarkable role for the Japanese pianist Hiromi, guitar virtuoso Pat Metheny and the Portugese fado singer and favourite of the public Mariza who played for the third time at the festival.

    The public went out of their mind at the concert of Kruder & Dorfmeister and during the concert of Madness. The special closing project by Trixie Whitley and her guest musicians (with Marc Ribot among others) was a remarkable closing concert.

    At the last day of the festival the winner of the Young Jazz Talent competition was announced. The jury chose for the Nathan Daems Quintet.

    The dates for the 2011 edition of the Gent Jazz Festival are: July 7-17, 2011.

    posted on 2010-07-20 09:18:11, 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.