Nicolas Kummert (born March 12, 1979) is a Belgian
jazz
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singer and tenor
saxophonist
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.
Biography
In 2001 Kummert graduated at the
Brussels
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Golden Django
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for best young talent in 2003.
He has played and recorded with musicians like the Alexi Tuomarila quartet, the group of Karl Jannuska,
Jef Neve
Jef Neve (born 8 March 1977) is a Belgian jazz and Classical music, classical music pianist and composer.
Life and career
Neve was born in Turnhout, Belgium.Hope, Alan (22 July 2014"Face of Flanders: Jef Neve" Flanders Today. By the age of 14 he ...
's 'Groove Thing', Yves Peeters, Qu4tre and
Pierre Van Dormael
Pierre Van Dormael (24 May 1952 – 3 September 2008) was a Belgian jazz guitarist and composer.
In 1988, he played in the James Baldwin Project with David Linx and Deborah Brown (vocalists), Slide Hampton (trombone), Diederik Wissels (piano ...
. He also worked with African singers like
Manu Dibango
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father w ...
and DJ's. In 2010 he released the first album with his group 'Nicolas Kummert Voices', together with Herve Samb and Nicolas Thys. They sing more poetic lyrics and recite in a setting of jazz improvisation and African grooves, funk and dubs. Among the songs are some covers, for example, of "Close to You" (the Carpenters) and "Monk's Dream" (Thelonious Monk).