Alex Koo Trio

It doesn’t happen every day that a Belgian jazz musician is praised by the world leading Downbeat Jazz Magazine with 4 stars and the words ‘Stunningly original‘. Yet it happened to Belgian-Japanese pianist Alex Koo with his latest CD ‘Appleblueseagreen‘, for which he collaborated with American icons Mark Turner and Ralph Alessi. Jazzism also praised their album with no less than four and a half stars: “Beautiful, touching, elevating“. In his home country, the young pianist has steadily earned a status as an upcoming super talent, backed by recent outstanding performances in Flagey, Handelsbeurs and NONA. His Belgian trio, together with drum legend Dré Pallemaerts and young bass virtuoso Lennart Heyndels delivers a mix of Alex’s hypnotic compositions and lyrical improvisations. The high energy and floating sound of this trio, draw the listener into a mesmerizing musical adventure.