Tutu Puoane – Wrapped In Rhythm

For almost ten years, Tutu Puoane (SA/B) walked around with the poetry collection In A Ribbon Of Rhythm by her South African compatriot Lebogang Mashile under her arm. Mashile’s poems made a deep and lasting impression on her, and every time she read them, she heard music. She decided to write a bunch of new […]

Anything Goes

-NL- (ENG see below) Op initiatief van Jazzzolder in Mechelen sloegen Tutu Puoane en Pat Donnez (Klara) in 2020 de handen in elkaar en werkten ze een voorstelling uit gebaseerd op de tekeningen van huistekenaar van Jazzzolder Kris Vanderstraeten van een hoop legendarische jazzvrouwen/-zangeressen uit de muziekgeschiedenis. De voorstelling beleefde in één van de Covid-openingsperiodes […]

Ewout Pierreux Rhodes Trio

The Rhodes-piano is the legendary electro-mechanical instrument invented by Harold Rhodes and made famous by the likes of Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock. Its typical warm bell-like sound is the result of its design: the keys drive wooden hammers to touch thin ‘tines’, which pitch vibrations as a result are being registered by electric pickups. […]

Small World

Small World is a collaboration project between two South African and three Belgian jazz musicians. The band grew out of the personal and musical friendship between South African trumpet player Marcus Wyatt and Belgian piano player Ewout Pierreux. They met in South Africa in 2004 and have been working and playing together ever since, in […]