Interfak Big Band Featuring Bert Joris

The Interfak Big Band 2024 annual concert features Bert Joris as guest solist. Bert Joris is an internationally renowned Belgian jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has built a reputation as a lyrical musician whose elegance and warm, silky tone have turned him into the reference for trumpet players in Belgium. His compositions have found their way into the repertoire of countless musicians, in Belgium and abroad, and he has also become a top-class arranger, working with some of the best in the field, like the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.  

The Interfak Big Band grew out of an occasional ensemble that accompagnied the revue show of the engineering students in 1984. Since 1986, the Interfak Big Band recrutes musicians from all faculties of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Hence the name Interfac(ultary) Big Band.

The Interfak Big Band plays a varied repertoire that ranges from classical big band music (Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller ...) over Jazz Standards (Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver ...) up to contemporary music (Bert Joris, Randy Brecker, Henry Mancini, Jaco Pastorius, Tower of Power, Josef Zawinul, Bob Mintzer, Pat Metheny, ...) The IBB also plays compositions by its own members, e.g. Bob Grietens, Karel Goddaer, Nele Ghijs, ...