Tribute to Monk
13 Feb 2019 - 13 Feb 2019
Carte blanche to Theo Zipper
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The Music Village - 50 Rue des Pierres 1000
Playing the music of one of his hero is not an easy job, especially when this hero developed a super-personal and unique sound than no one was able to reach better than him. Thelonious Monk was a revolutionary composer, and pianist. He left us a large corpus of brillant and beautiful tunes, all of these are short stories full of surprises, dissonance, which can sound like a strange joke as well as a life celebration. Théo Zipper uses his favorite 10 tunes of Monk as a playground for his quintet. Trying to follow the spirit of the master, and to add his own experience into it.
The Music Village
50 Rue des Pierres 1000
Enjoying a 17th century location at the very heart of Brussels, only a few metres away from the legendary Grand’Place, the Music Village has opened its doors on the 1st of September 2000. With acoustics, sound system, lighting, stage, warm welcome, comfort, and food & drink that live up to the most prestigious clubs of New-York and London, the Music Village offers all music fans, listeners and musicians alike, a return to the Golden Age of international jazz clubs. On the live program (300 concerts a year), the best Belgian and international jazz musicians, who have adopted this cosmopolitan venue that does justice to its home in the Capital of Europe.
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