after reading about matisse (blue stool on radiator) 10 Jan 2008 | 08:50 am

it says more about the author than the music 18 Nov 2007 | 03:53 pm

A frequent response to negative criticism, but one I don't really understand. "They played a blues in F. Then a variation on rhythm changes clever enough to prove there's still life in that old metho...

Trio Grande w/ Matthew Bourne - 26/10/2007@Beursschouwburg, Bruxelles 15 Nov 2007 | 11:08 am

Laurent Dehors - b cl, contrabass cl, two more straight clarinets I don't know the keys of, ts, ss, hca, jew's harp, bagpipes Matthew Bourne - p (website) Michel Massot - tba, tb, euphonium Michel Deb...

The Bad Plus - 14/10/2007@N9, Eeklo 14 Nov 2007 | 07:58 am

Ethan Iverson - p (blog) Reid Anderson - b David King - d [Yes, this post is almost a month overdue. Consider it a prelude to The Bad Plus's return to Belgium on the 15th. I'll be seeing Brad Mehldau...

Matt Wilson Arts & Crafts - 05/11/2007@De Werf, Brugge 7 Nov 2007 | 11:46 am

Terell Stafford - tp, flh Gary Versace - p, acc Dennis Irwin - b, cl Matt Wilson - d (myspace | website) A few days ago, Jeff Albert wrote a quasi-love letter to Matt Wilson. After seeing Arts & Craf...

Mikkel Ploug Group ft. Mark Turner - 07/10/2007@L'Archiduc, Bruxelles 2 Nov 2007 | 09:12 am

Mark Turner - ts Mikkel Ploug - g (myspace) Jeppe Skovbakke - b Sean Carpio - d Joachim Badenhorst - ts On what could very well have been the last sunny and warm days of the year, it felt unnatural, ...

pod #14 2 Nov 2007 | 08:52 am

The new issue of Point of Departure is out, with its usual payload of interesting columns. Travellin' Light gives Taylor Ho Bynum another chance to express his well-known and much-appreciated belgophi...

gimme translation 2 Nov 2007 | 03:59 am

It Is Not Mean... responds to and elaborates upon a comment I had left on his blog (also see Jeremy Stuart's comment on De Saussure): Because "I don't speak no languages" there is very little I can sa...

Tied + Tickled - 05/10/2007@Ancienne Belgique, Bruxelles 1 Nov 2007 | 09:40 pm

Any band with two girls (cellist/xylophonist and keyboardist, plus some guy on drums) has my immediate sympathy, but, in this case, that dissipated very quickly. The unannounced opener, which remained...

Othin Spake - 18/10/2007@PP Café, Bruxelles 26 Oct 2007 | 09:29 am

Teun Verbruggen - d (website | myspace) Mauro Pawlowski - g Jozef Dumoulin - Fender Rhodes The Ankh is a fabulous album (apparently , it's also available on iTunes), and Othin Spake's great concert e...