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One room. One story.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text_color=\u00a0\u00bbcolor-lxmt\u00a0\u00bb heading_semantic=\u00a0\u00bbdiv\u00a0\u00bb text_font=\u00a0\u00bbfont-107084″ text_size=\u00a0\u00bbh4″ text_weight=\u00a0\u00bb400″ uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb111241″ text_color_type=\u00a0\u00bbuncode-palette\u00a0\u00bb]It started with two people, a small venue on rue de la Tulipe, and a hunch that Brussels needed a room where jazz could live. 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The place was a rock and rhythm and blues caf\u00e9 at first. On the advice of Pol Lenders, the man behind the Bierodrome, they turned it into a jazz club. 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Musicians came for the room, the piano, the late-night jams, and a crowd that knew how to listen. The great figures of modern Belgian jazz played here, Philip Catherine, Aka Moon, Steve Houben among them. The club became a springboard for a generation that would shape Belgian jazz: Eric Legnini, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Melanie De Biasio, Jef Neve, Antoine Pierre, Margaux Vranken, and many more.<\/p>\n

From the nineties on, the international scene found its way to Ixelles too. Charlie Mariano, John Abercrombie, Paolo Fresu, Mark Turner, John Scofield, Jacky Terrasson: world-class names, played at arm\u2019s length.\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb129471″ text_color_type=\u00a0\u00bbuncode-palette\u00a0\u00bb text_color_solid=\u00a0\u00bb#ff0000″]The jazz years. A room that built a scene[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=\u00a0\u00bb0″ override_padding=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb h_padding=\u00a0\u00bb2″ top_padding=\u00a0\u00bb2″ bottom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb2″ overlay_alpha=\u00a0\u00bb50″ gutter_size=\u00a0\u00bb4″ column_width_percent=\u00a0\u00bb100″ shift_y=\u00a0\u00bb0″ z_index=\u00a0\u00bb0″ inverted_device_order=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb content_parallax=\u00a0\u00bb0″ uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb805397″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb position_vertical=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb gutter_size=\u00a0\u00bb3″ overlay_alpha=\u00a0\u00bb50″ shift_x=\u00a0\u00bb0″ shift_y=\u00a0\u00bb0″ shift_y_down=\u00a0\u00bb0″ z_index=\u00a0\u00bb0″ medium_width=\u00a0\u00bb0″ mobile_width=\u00a0\u00bb0″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/2″ column_width_pixel=\u00a0\u00bb900″][vc_custom_heading text_color=\u00a0\u00bbaccent\u00a0\u00bb heading_semantic=\u00a0\u00bbh6″ text_size=\u00a0\u00bbh3″ text_transform=\u00a0\u00bbuppercase\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb637255″ text_color_type=\u00a0\u00bbuncode-palette\u00a0\u00bb el_class=\u00a0\u00bbhistory-date\u00a0\u00bb]2020[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=\u00a0\u00bbh3″ text_size=\u00a0\u00bbh1″ subheading=\u00a0\u00bbThe new team created Sounds Resist, a program dedicated to resistance and resilience for human rights, carried by Latin American rhythms and sounds from Africa, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The jazz club kept running alongside it, first with Sounds Live ASBL, then, from the 2024 season, fully in the hands of Sounds Resist ASBL. One house, one team, two programs on the same stage, played with the same seriousness.\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb194092″]A new chapter. 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Each layer of the story extends the one before it. Jazz started it. SOUNDS never stopped adding to it.\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb393071″]Forty years. The newest layer[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″][vc_separator sep_color=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb324692″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=\u00a0\u00bb0″ override_padding=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb h_padding=\u00a0\u00bb2″ top_padding=\u00a0\u00bb3″ bottom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb5″ overlay_alpha=\u00a0\u00bb50″ gutter_size=\u00a0\u00bb3″ column_width_percent=\u00a0\u00bb100″ shift_y=\u00a0\u00bb0″ z_index=\u00a0\u00bb0″ content_parallax=\u00a0\u00bb0″ uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb145091″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb position_vertical=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb align_horizontal=\u00a0\u00bbalign_center\u00a0\u00bb gutter_size=\u00a0\u00bb3″ overlay_alpha=\u00a0\u00bb50″ shift_x=\u00a0\u00bb0″ shift_y=\u00a0\u00bb0″ shift_y_down=\u00a0\u00bb0″ z_index=\u00a0\u00bb0″ medium_width=\u00a0\u00bb0″ mobile_width=\u00a0\u00bb0″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ column_width_pixel=\u00a0\u00bb900″][vc_custom_heading text_color=\u00a0\u00bbaccent\u00a0\u00bb heading_semantic=\u00a0\u00bbh6″ text_size=\u00a0\u00bbh6″ text_transform=\u00a0\u00bbuppercase\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb144162″ text_color_type=\u00a0\u00bbuncode-palette\u00a0\u00bb]The story continues on stage[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=\u00a0\u00bbh3″ text_size=\u00a0\u00bbh1″ uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb167625″]The next chapter is written Thursday to Sunday, live.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_button button_color=\u00a0\u00bbaccent\u00a0\u00bb border_width=\u00a0\u00bb0″ link=\u00a0\u00bburl:https%3A%2F%2Fsounds2026.tetedecom.pro%2Fagenda%2F|title:Events\u00a0\u00bb button_color_type=\u00a0\u00bbuncode-palette\u00a0\u00bb uncode_shortcode_id=\u00a0\u00bb170743″]See what\u2019s on \u2192[\/vc_button][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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