Django d'Or 1999

photo: Jacky Lepage

Jeroen VAN HERZEELE

Tenor/soprano saxophone


Born September 13, 1965 in Zottegem (Belgium).
After having completed highschool, specializing in music, Jeroen attends jazz lessons at the Antwerp Jazz Studio, with Dave PIKE, Peter HERTMANS and John RUOCCO. He also attended workshops with Joe LOVANO, Dave LIEBMAN, Steve GROSSMAN, Bill PIERCE.

In '99, he receives the Belgian Django d'Or.


He now teaches saxophone and ensemble at Royal Brussels Conservatory.

Plays (and did play) in numerous groups :

As a leader or co-leader : He leads his own trio, he co-leads MÄÄK's SPIRIT with trumpet player Laurent BLONDIAU.
In a more contemporary acid-jazz-rock-rap vein, he leads Greetings from Mercury.
See also : GREETINGS WEB SITE

See JEROEN VAN HERZEELE BANDS

Festivals:


Ode for Joe
DISCOGRAPHY
The Cross Roads
Jeroen VAN HERZEELE Trio "At the Cross Roads" (Carbon 7 - 017 - 1995)
Fabrizio CASSOL / Kris DEFOORT "Variations On a Love Supreme" (W.E.R.F - 005 - 1995)
OCTURN "Chromatic History" ( WE.R.F. 002 - 1994)
Nathalie LORIERS Quartet "Dance Or Die" (Igloo IGL 105 - 1993)
Diederik WISSELS - David LINX Group"If One More Day" (TWI970-2- Crepuscule - 1993)
Peter HERTMANS / Jeroen VAN HERZEELE "Ode For Joe" (Igloo IGL 123 - 1996)
TOMAS and Co le Singulier des Pluriels (1996, Tomas and Co)
OCTURN"Ocean" (W.E.R.F. 008 - 1997)
François DESCAMPS "Hamp digs Ham" (LYRAE - 1998)
Nicolas THYS Alice's Five Moons (1997,Cross Over)
Greetings from Mercury"Greetings from Mercury" (Carbon 7 C7-029 - 1998)
Chris JORIS EXPERIENCE"Live" (W.E.R.F. 012 - 1998)
MÄÄK'S SPIRIT"Live" (JAS records -1998)
Kris DEFOORT"Passages" WERF 014-015)
Greetings from Mercury"Continuance" (Carbon 7 C7-036 - 1999)
ODE FOR JOE"Caribbean Fire Dance" (W.E.R.F. 017 - 1999)
Olivier THOMAS"Le second souffle de Josaphat"(Franc'Amour FC 112)
Marco LOCURCIO"Giulia is asleep"(Lyrae)
OCTURN "Round"(Werf)
Greetings from Mercury"Heiwa" (Werf- 2002)
Nicolas THYS Trio"In My Tree"IGLOO IGL169 /2003

Read an interview of Jeroen VAN HERZEELE in the Journal of the Lundis d'Hortense (in French).