Bruno Vansina

Given birth to in Belgium in 1975, saxophonist Bruno Vansina offers flourished inside the Flemish creative music community, locating diverse shops for his music — which range from Gil Evans-inspired huge ensemble jazz to skewed as well as zany art rock and roll — while both bandleader and collaborator. A Frank Zappa lover in senior high school, Vansina started the serious quest for a career like a jazz saxophonist while an adolescent, immersing himself in recordings from the titans from the device, from Lester Youthful to Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, and Ornette Coleman. In the middle-’90s Vansina started conservatory research, both on the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he fulfilled and started a longstanding collaborative romantic relationship with drummer Teun Verbruggen, as well as the Royal Conservatory from the Hague, Netherlands, where he was trained by tenor saxophonist/clarinetist John Ruocco. The alto saxophone would frequently become Vansina’s device of preference in his recordings and shows over time, although he also has soprano and baritone aswell as clarinet and flute. In 2003 Vansina and Verbruggen co-founded the Rat (Rare and Treacherous) label, which released its initial album that calendar year: Trio Music with the threesome of Vansina, Verbruggen, and Iceland-born, Netherlands-based dual bassist Gulli Gudmundsson (who, like Vansina, also examined on the Royal Conservatory from the Hague, finding a master’s level following that in 1999). Melding interpretations of traditional jazz compositions with unique material and free of charge improvisations, the Vansina-Verbruggen-Gudmundsson Trio — aka VVG — became a continuing proposition, using the double-disc In Orbit established released by Rat in 2005 and Tokio Quantize pursuing in 2007; the latter two produces included guest performances by Jozef Dumoulin on Fender Rhodes and Magic Malik on flute. While Vansina was showing up with VVG on Rat Information, the saxophonist was tapped by bandleader/composer/clarinetist Peter Vermeersch for account in the substantial avant ensemble Level Earth Culture. Vansina first made an appearance on Psychoscout (Crammed Discs, 2006), and will also be noticed on such following FES produces as Answer Music (Zonk, 2009), Cheer Me, Perverts! (Crammed Discs, 2009), 13 (Igloo, 2013), as well as the live collection Contact Bed sheets, Riders & Poultry Mushroom: Live Recordings 2000-2012 (Igloo, 2014). Before he’d step out being a full-fledged head of his very own creative jazz outfit, however, Vansina evidently had a little bit of rather demented business to escape just how: an recording of Zappa-esque broken art rock and roll, jazz-rock, and sonic experimentalism entitled Nirvana Reward as well as the Demons of Pity, released by Rat in ’09 2009. With Vansina leading his Demons of Pity band offering Verbruggen, bassist Pierre Vervloesem, keyboardist Peter Vandenberghe, and guitarist Gil Mortio, the saxophonist not merely demonstrated his capable reed chops, but exercised his vocal cords like a warped crooner and shouter on such paths as “What’s Wrong with You” and “(I Don’t Understand A) Spot to Proceed.” The next year, Vansina shaped the group that could become a significant automobile for his following forays into “significant” innovative jazz like a bandleader, composer, and saxophonist. Vansina have been playing in trio and quartet lineups across the Belgian picture, including his personal dates in the Hopper Café in Antwerp, when he officially founded the Bruno Vansina Quartet, once again including Verbruggen and in addition offering guitarist Bert Cools and bassist Nathan Wouters. Playing Vansina’s roomy, atmospheric, and expressive jazz compositions, the group embarked on a brief tour of Mexico in 2011 and in March 2012 got into Brooklyn, New York’s Program Two studio room — with Jos Machtel changing Wouters on bass and with observed American vibraphonist Steve Nelson being a highlighted visitor — to record Stratocluster. Constructed, mixed, and learned by Mike Marciano, the record was released with the W.E.R.F. label per month after the periods had been finished. By adding pianist Bart Truck Caenegem towards the collapse in 2013, the saxophonist’s music group was transformed in to the Bruno Vansina Quintet, which, with Nathan Wouters back again on bass, came back to Mexico for three concert schedules. In Dec, the music group, having undergone even more lineup adjustments with Christian Mendozza today on piano and Sean Faschiani on bass, made an appearance at Antwerp’s Rataplan place as the building blocks from the recently christened Vansina Orchestra, using the five-piece supplemented by 11 horn players carrying out Vansina compositions recently organized by trombonist Dree Peremans, innovator from the Rebirth::Collective octet. The entire ensemble — right now with bassist Stefan Lievestro in the primary quintet along with Vansina, Verbruggen, Cools, and Mendozza, and including previous Vansina instructor John Ruocco in the horn section — documented the Rataplan-premiered music with engineer Walter de Niel at Brussels’ Studio room Toots in January 2014. The resultant recording of Gil Evans and Charles Mingus-influenced large-ensemble innovative jazz, Morning hours Forest aka Nose Up Bottom level Down, premiered by Rat in June of this year. As well as the aforementioned, Vansina could be noticed on such recordings as Undeletable (Off, 2014) by Basic, the eponymous Rebirth::Collective (SoulFactory, 2013), Sketches of Discomfort (Off, 2012) by Caca, The Nethack Dictionary (Sub Rosa, 2011) by Othin Spake, In just a little Provincial City (Sept, 2011) and Music group of Parrots (Sept, 2008) from the Wednesday Night time Orchestra, and Tráfico (2006, Crammed Discs) by Think about One.