Antoine Pierre Urbex at Marni Jazz Festival at Théâtre Marni

Antoine Pierre Urbex came to life in two cities ; Brussels, where the young percussionist has lived for the past 5 years, and New York, where he has just spent the past 10 months immerged in the roots and at the forefront of Jazz.
This new eight-part ensemble offers up the opportunity to discover their latest compositions, intertwined with arrangements of other works. As a lover of urban areas, they create melodic urban universes, sometimes energetic, sometimes apocalyptic.
Antoine Pierre allows his creativity to run free and brilliantly capitalises on the potential of the electric and acoustic instruments in his octet....

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Antoine Pierre Urbex came to life in two cities ; Brussels, where the young percussionist has lived for the past 5 years, and New York, where he has just spent the past 10 months immerged in the roots and at the forefront of Jazz.
This new eight-part ensemble offers up the opportunity to discover their latest compositions, intertwined with arrangements of other works. As a lover of urban areas, they create melodic urban universes, sometimes energetic, sometimes apocalyptic.
Antoine Pierre allows his creativity to run free and brilliantly capitalises on the potential of the electric and acoustic instruments in his octet.
He draws his inspiration from many sources – Pat Metheny, Brad Meldhau, Aka Moon – as well as Haitian and Senegalese music. At the age of just 22 he was awarded the Toots Thielemans Jazz Award 2014. He tours with the likes of Philip Catherine and Jean-Paul Estiévenart, and, as of recently, the singer Tom Barman as well ...

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