Bram Weijters

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Bram Weijters (* 1980 in Sint-Niklaas ) is a Belgian jazz musician ( piano , keyboard , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Weijters attended music conservatories in Antwerp and Brussels; He graduated in jazz piano , jazz composition and arrangement . He then worked in various jazz formations such as Deep , the Bram Weijters Quartet and Muze 5 ; Recordings were made with Dez Mona, the Eef Van Acker Quartet and with the hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther. He also worked as a session musician in the hip-hop scene with artists such as Jerboa, Lefto, Krewcial and with the rock band Giants of the Air . He is currently working in a quartet with Todd Clouser , Sébastien Boisseau and Teun Verbruggen . In 2015 he presented the duo album Abstract Quantities ( Origin Records ) with his own compositions with trumpeter Chad McCullough . In the field of jazz he was involved in eight recording sessions between 2008 and 2018, according to Tom Lord . a. also with Koen Nys, Jaclyn Guillou and Piet Verbist Zygomatik.

Discographic notes

  • Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters Quartet: Imaginary Sketches (WERF, 2010)
  • Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters Quartet. Urban Nightingale (WERF / Origin, 2012)
  • Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters Quartet: Abstract Quantities (WERF, 2015)
  • Chad McCullough / Bram Weijters: Pendulum (Shifting Paradigm Records 2018)
  • Bram Weijters' Crazy Men: Here They Come (Sdban Ultra, 2019), with Andrew Claes, Dries Laheye, Sam Vloemans, Steven Cassiers, Vincent Brijs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2019)
  2. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Weijters, Bram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz musician (piano, keyboard, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sint-Niklaas