OFFERING THE BEST OF JAZZ SINCE 1986...
When Sergio Duvaloni and Rosy Merlini arrived in Bruxelles in the summer of 1985, they only planned to stay a few months. But a chance conversation with a taxi driver alerted Sergio to the fact that a business was for sale at 28 rue de la Tulipe. He fell in love with the place and decided to buy it for his wife Rosy’s birthday. What started as a rock and rhythm and blues café soon evolved into a jazz club, following advice from Brussels jazz club legend Pol Lenders, whose own Bierodrome was a stone’s throw away at the corner of the street.
Since then, Sounds has not only hosted the pick of the Belgian modern jazz scene, including Philip Catherine, Aka Moon and Steve Houben, but also served as a stepping stone for many jazz musicians who would go on to become pillars of Belgian jazz over the years: Eric Legnini, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Octurn, Nathalie Loriers, Melanie De Biaso, Daniel Romeo, Jef Neve, Greg Houben, Pascal Mohy, Jean-Paul Estievenart, Antoine Pierre, Igor Gehenot and Margaux Vranken, to name but a few… The club’s reputation has spread worldwide and since the 1990s it has welcomed such internationally-famous artists as Charlie Mariano, Joe LaBarbera, John Abercrombie, Paolo Fresu, Mark Turner, John Scofield, Rosario Giuliani, Jonathan Kreisberg and Jacky Terrasson.
Sounds overcame every crisis as it arose, organising its famous jam sessions and offering the possibility for groups to play regularly, and so develop their repertoire, under the beady eye of its legendary boss.
AFTER 34 YEARS AT THE HELM, ROSY AND SERGIO SOLD THE BUILDING
A non-profit organization, Buen Vivir, acquired 28 rue de la Tulipe, with a view to using it for its resistance and resilience activities to uphold human rights, creating their Sounds Resist program. But the new owners also wanted to ensure as well the continuation and the development of the Sounds Jazz club and therefor contacted Joachim Caffonnette, a pillar of non-profit musical activities in Brussels and himself a musician who had taken his first musical steps on the boards of the stage at Sounds, who created the Sounds Live ASBL. The collaboration lasted 3 years, and both organizations developed very good programs, but after 2 years -and a long mediation-, both organizations concluded that it was not possible to manage the place together, and they agreed that after completing its 2023-24 season, Sounds Live ASBL would develop its activities elsewhere, while Sounds Resist ASBL would stay and manage both the Sounds Jazz Club and the Resist program of world music. Buen Vivir with its Sounds Resist ASBL are also managing the Manolis Glezos room, and the “Buen Vivir Space” cultural center, place Cocq 23.
SOUNDS LIVE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THOSE THAT HAVE HELPED TO RELAUNCH THE CLUB IN 2021
Véronique Goffin
Frederic Krivine
Anne-marie Loop
Michel De Bock
Agnes Limbos
Gilles Rolland
Emmanuel André
Genevieve Bruyndonckx
Claire Mairiaux
Xavier Pique
Philippe Quevauviller
Soraya Soussi
Yan Savoye
Martin Salemi
Julien Marga
Leticia Martinez
Rob Spelberg
Catherine Lorge
Lorenzo Di Maio
Coraline Couvreur
Barbara Wiernik
Nicolas Limbos
Serge Sluyts
Véronique Hocq
Cedric Alter
Craig Winneker
Stephanie van Rossum
Claudia Spinelli
Mark Somers
Lilas-Siam Farvaque
Anu Junnonen
Daniel Romeo
Marie Lechat
Dan Whieldon
Vadim Faucon
Ricardo Rodriguez Chamorro
Pedro Coelho
Alain Gennart
Filippe Caporali
Marc-Henri Cykiert
Isabelle Schmit
Christine Rygaert
Mike Florida
Emilie Larcier
Anne Casterman
Christian Verlent
Eric Cattoir
Manuel Versaen
Delphine Cugnon
Martine Cohen Cohen
Peppino Capotondi
Shoko Igarashi
Jasmien Geijsels
Jonathan Todd
Denis Deschodt
Adeline Slosse
Jacques Prouvost
Stefan Boc
Marco Frabza
Sandrine Demeure
Antoine Lambertz
Eugénie Panopoulos
Yves Tassin
Bruno Grollet
Johannes Boner
Thomas Frand
Alexander Drechsel
Fred Williaume
Domenico Campogrande
Annalisa Tessarolo
Jérôme Sneessens
Patrick Vanwynsberghe
Sarah Walravens
Katy Saudmont
Marika Simmons
Nicolas Thys
Greg Lamy
Aristide d’Agostino
Alexandre Chaidron
Angeliki Kallianou
patrick ghislain
Koben Sprengers
Timothé le Maire
Benjamin Jesuran
Guillaume Schweicher
Jürgen Wettig
Alexandre Furnelle
Michel Damsin
Paul Garner
Jip Van Besouw
Julien Wadin
Dominique Vanhulst
Brigitte Flabat
Luc Detroux
Caroline Decerfayt
Bart Verlooy
Pascal Bley
Alison Hunter
André Pening
Rodrigo Castilho Maldonado
Pierre Saint-Germier
Anette Haurum
Gil Mortio
Ele Par
François Brouwer
Emmanuelle Pottier
Marie Brouwer
Carl Devos
xavier tribolet
Marc Levaux
Félix Zurstrassen
Amaury Boucher
Patrick Printz
Martine Chamiec
Thomas Claus
Virginie Lamury
Olivier Raeymaekers
Bastien Paternotte
Marc Pitz
Anya Verkamp
Luc blyaert
Gino Lattuca
Casimir Liberski
Philippe Curatolo
Thomas Mayade
Caroline Gastaldi
Philippe Santini
Natacha Langerman
Thierry Plas
Bart Defoort
Rowald Pruijn
Abdelkrim Daoud
Bert Mignolet
Mary Lou
Florence Kohnen
Georges Van Snick
Julie Heraud
Eduardo Pisani
Jean-louis Rassinfosse
Maxime Stapelle
Emmanuel Bairy
Lucie Herickx
Danielle Denis
Loïs Le Van
Véronique Philips
Fabien Degryse
Gérald Bibot
Federico Milone
Achille Gabry
Thomas grimmonprez
Stéphane Galland
Patrick Demaret
Guy Vanderputten
Frederic Malempre
Wafaa Hammich
Paul Meller
Camille Cuvier
Stefan Liberski
Daniele Martini
Eva Sayer
Sarah Walravens
Noé Pestiaux
Isabelle Graff
Paul Van Vynckt
Alasdair Reid
Maayan Smith
Elisabeth Hoorens
Thierry Syfer
Anne Wolf
Marco Locurcio
Myriam Mollet
Thibault Dille
Jean-François Fetu
Olivier Beressi
Pauline Lavagna
Pierre Coheur
Baptiste Baily
Pierre-Antoine Savoyat
Pierre Martin
Gladys Touly
Fabrice Dusch
Valérie Wilquet
Thomas Steyaert
Maarten Van Rousselt
Jean-François Prins
Benjamin Sauzereau
Valérie Defrène
Emmanuel Dubar
Jean-Philippe Nachtergaele
Julien Gillain
Pierre de Surgères
Anne-Lise Troutet
Gilles Fleury
JM Meganck
Bethleem Dubois
Matteo Di Leonardo
Nicolas Loozen
Lone Henriksen
Francesco Marchetti
Loraine Phillips
Michel de JAER
Jerome Klein
Fergal Driver
Federica Morelli
Joannes Van Duffel
Sylvain Debaisieux
Gilles Carlier
Renaud Person
Michele Benvenuti
Jacques Onan
Lionel beuvens
Laurence Cousseau
Annemie Osborne
Michel Vrydag
Guillaume Gillain
Michel Elinckx
Alain Kentos
Jesse Dockx
Michel Paré
Philippe Bruno
Martin Devenney
Bob De Marco
Gil Paon
Jean-Olivier Maillette
Wilfried Van Mol
Geoffrey Fiorese
Nicholas Bertolaso
Julien Vannson
Florence Veys
Pierre Vaiana
Monique André
Pedro Lopez de Pablo
Matthias Van den Brande
Miguel Montarelo
Valentine Wastiau
Mathieu Najean
Romeo Iannucci
Véronique Bruyndonckx
Ana Torres
Martin Bauer
Claude Hoffmann
Peter Easton
Rafaël Castro
Maria Aldanas
Jean-Jacques Coppee
Renaud De Heyn
Viktor Nyberg
Jordi De Beule
Sophie Fortemps
Cedric Raymond
Philippe Vienne
Rik De Deyn
Alexandrine Demblon
Dorian Dumont
Eve Beuvens
Georges Van hoorickx
Fabian Hidalgo
Torben Toft
Victoire de Gourcuff
Bert Droushoudt
Gaetan Casteels
Riccardo Donà Domeneghetti
Colette Ledent
Olivier Vander Bauwede
Juliette Bruyndonckx
Olivier Vander Bauwede
Guillaume Malempré
Tiffany Daspect
Olivier Degryse
Vincent Dieudonné
Arthur Possing
Arthur Hirtz
Berengere Cornez
Antoine Pierre
José Buc
Michel Mainil
Nicolas Fiszman
Théo Zipper
Mathieu Noirhomme
Antonio Astorino
Jean-Louis Hennart
Paul Abboud
Blandine Favier
Amelie de Spot
Roger Vantilt
Paskal Drapier
Fabrice Alleman
Nicolas Schaeffer
Jo Govaerts
Marianna Mattera
Clement Piment
Lydia Reichenberg
François Garny
kevin hoorens
Gonzalo Rodriguez Diaz
Pamela Malempre
Mariama Errami
Sébastien Jacques
B B
Geoff Meade
Jean-Pol Schroeder
Thomas Champagne
Jørgen Skov Sørensen
Stephanie Bertrand
Dana Petre
Lucas Vanderputten
Noemi Chausidis
Bernard Guyot
Leentje Arnouts
Luc Quadflieg
Alice Kuczkiewicz
Muriel Beckers
Claire Vk
Julien Guilloux
Florence Jumeau
Thomas Maillet