BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA (see www.brusselsjazzorchestra.com).
BART DEFOORT/EMANUELE CISI QUINTET:Bart Defoort & Emanuele Cisi (Tenor Sax),Ron Van Rossum (p),Nic Thys (Bs),Sebastiaan De Krom (dr).
BART DEFOORT QUARTET
TUNES ON THIS PAGE:
"ALMA,LA DIVA",Easy Living","Home","KEYS TO THE KINGDOM":B.Defoort & E.Cisi Quintet:CD"Sharing Stories on our journey"
"THE LIZARD GAME"+Hans Van Oost(gt),B.De Nolf(bs),J.De Haas (dr) from CD"The Lizard Game"(2003)
"BLONX":+ Erik Vermeulen(p),Nic Thys (bs),Gene Calderazzo (dr);From CD "Moving" (1997)
Influences
Bird,Bach,Miles,Trane,Etc....etc...& Life & Love & great books,movies & etc....
Sounds Like
DISCOGRAPHY:
As a "LEADER":
"SHARING STORIES ON OUR JOURNEY"(2008)(W.E.R.F. records)
"THE LIZARD GAME"(2003)(W.E.R.F.)
"STREAMS"(2000) (IGLOO)
"MOVING" (1997) (W.E.R.F.)
As a member of the BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA:
"TEN YEARS AGO" (2008)
"THE MUSIC OF MICHEL HERR"(2008)
"CHANGING FACES"(2007)
"COUNTERMOVE"(2006)
"DANGEROUS LIAISON"(2006)(+Bert Joris+ Fl.Philharmonic.)
"MEETING COLOURS"(2005)(+Philip Catherine)
"NAKED IN THE COSMOS"(2002)(+Kenny Werner)
"THE MUSIC OF BERT JORIS" (2001)
"THE SEPTEMBER SESSIONS"(1999)
As a Sideman:
BOP HARD & BE (Mimi Verderame)(2007)
KD'S BASEMENT PARTY: "SKETCHES OF BELGIUM"(1992)
"LIVE at The Werf"(2005)
BART QUARTIER QUINTET:"THANK YOU" (2006)
OCTURN:"ROUND"(2000)
"OCEAN" (1998)
"CHROMATIC HISTORY"(1993)
MARNIX BUSSTRA "The Naïve World"
ERNST VRANCKX QUINTET "A CHILD'S BLESSING"(1998)
"SONGS & DANCES" (2000)
OLIVIER COLETTE "L'AUBE AU CREPUSCULE".(2001)
Born in Bruges,Belgium in 1964.Very Active on the Jazz scene since 1985.Leader of different "Quartets" & "Quintets",with which played on the major national festivals like "Jazz Middelheim ","Jazz a Liège",etc.He recorded 4 CD's as leader with mostly original compositions.He is a member of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra(B.J.O.) since its foundation in 1993.With this Orchestra,he tours internationally, records and plays the music of and with Bert Joris,Frank Vaganee,Maria Schneider,Toots Thielemans,Kenny Werner,Dave Liebman,Bob Mintzer,Tom Harrell,Bill Hollman,Lee Konitz,Philip Cathérine,Kenny Wheeler,etc...He teaches Sax & improvisation at the Conservatory of Ghent and at the "Kunsthumaniora",Antwerp.
