Toine Thys Bando feat. Motoï Kanamori

Toine Thys Bando feat. Motoï Kanamori Music The bar stage will host a rare meeting, of those that give all its meaning to jazz: four exceptional musicians gathered around the same desire for freedom, listening, and sharing. A major figure of the saxophone and bass clarinet in Belgium, Toine Thys is a traveling artist, familiar with European, African, and Asian stages. Winner of the Octave for best jazz album in 2021, he returns with a new project, born from a striking meeting in Tokyo with the Japanese double bassist Motoï Kanamori. Between them, a musical evidence imposed itself: a precision, a sincerity, and a common energy, capable of exceeding borders and cultures. To give all its breadth to this new formation, they surround themselves with two remarkable talents of the young generation: Wajdi Riahi, a prodigy pianist whose inventiveness and harmonic richness already impress jazz stages, and Diego Alexandre, a Portuguese drummer with an intense, sensitive, and deeply musical playing. Together, they offer a jazz that is resolutely acoustic, adventurous, and generous. A jazz that breathes, that dialogues, that takes risks, and that builds itself in the moment. For enthusiasts, it is the opportunity to discover the birth of a project called to count. For the curious, an ideal gateway to a living, vibrant, and joyful jazz. Four musicians, four trajectories, the same energy: do not miss this chance to hear them gathered, as close as possible, in the intimacy of the bar. In collaboration with the Tourcoing Jazz Festival. Crédits Toine Thys saxophones / bass clarinet Wajdi Riahi piano Motoï Kanamori double bass Diogo Alexandre drums