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Lionel Beuvens

Born in 1981 in Charleroi (Belgium), Lionel Beuvens starts studying the drums in the Académie d'Auvelais in the classical percussion classes. He gets his first experience in jazz from Antoine Cirri and Nathalie Loriers, and through summer classes in Dworp where he has the opportunity to meet and study with Billy Hart. Graduated from the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel in June 2004, he followed lessons with Garcia Morales and Pieter Bast and is since 2008 teacher there. He also studied in the Lemmens Instituut in Leuven with Dré Pallemaerts and Pierre Van Dormael, as well as in the Den Haag Conservatorium with Eric Ineke and privately with Bob Moses, Nasheet Waits and Steve Clover.


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Album Review

Giuseppe Millaci and the Vogue Trio: Double Portrait

Read "Double Portrait" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


There is a distinct, European elegance of invention practiced by double bassist Giuseppe Millaci and his Vogue Trio mates--pianist Amaury Faye and drummer Lionel Beuvens--that leaves a real good impression on us inelegant Americans. Over the course of four albums for Hypnote Records--Songbook (2017), The Endless Way (2019), Interaction: Live At Flagey (2022), and now, with the road tested acrobatics of Double Portrait--the trio has established a patience and willingness to let the music go its own way in ...

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Piet Verbist: Secret Exit to Another Dimension

Read "Secret Exit to Another Dimension" reviewed by Jack Bowers


In spite of its rather intriguing title (and those of several of its selections), Secret Exit to Another Dimension, by Belgian bassist Piet Verbist's well-schooled trio, consists for the most part of the sort of gentle, heartwarming jazz one might hear on a given evening in any number of upscale nightspots around the world. In fact, if guitarist Hendrik Braeckman were to be replaced by pianist Tamir Hendelman, Verbist's threesome might sound remarkably akin to the superlative Jeff Hamilton Trio, ...

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Piet Verbist: Secret Exit to Another Dimension

Read "Secret Exit to Another Dimension" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Belgian bassist Piet Verbist has featured saxophonists on each of his previous Origin Records albums—bass, drums and a horn or two seems to be his way of working. With Secret Exit To Another Dimension, his fifth Origin outing, he pares things down to the trio format, creating a distinctive guitar/bass/drums sound that has a strikingly modern feel. It has become cliche to say—especially when speaking of trio of bass and drums with a piano or guitar—that the group ...

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Giuseppe Millaci & Vogue Trio: The Endless Way

Read "The Endless Way" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


There is a distinct lived-in, road-tested and chops confidence permeating bassist-composer Giuseppe Millaci & Vogue Trio's second recording The Endless Way. Road-tested is the key concept here. With each of the album's nine tracks composed to reflect upon moments and experiences along the global roads yearning for jazz, Millaci, premiere pianist Amaury Faye and subtle-as-a-shadow drummer Lionel Beuvens entwine with and interpret each other's passions with veteran elan. And though Millaci's drive and name head the trio attribution, ...

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Giuseppe Millaci: Songbook

Read "Songbook" reviewed by Troy Dostert


On his debut recording, Songbook, Italian bassist Giuseppe Millaci displays a healthy share of confidence and panache. And with a mature compositional voice and the help of well-chosen bandmates in pianist Amaury Faye and drummer Lionel Beuvens, Millaci offers some fine music worthy of gaining a wider audience. The album's title might be a bit misleading for those expecting a revisiting-the-standards concept, as eight of the nine pieces are Millaci's, the only classic being Hoagy Carmichael's “Skylark," given ...

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Giuseppe Millaci: Songbook

Read "Songbook" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Inspired by the iconic bassists Ray Brown and Dave Holland, Italian bassist Giuseppe Millaci and his vogue trio--compelling pianist Amaury Faye and drummer Lionel Beuvens have themselves a real sweet, fluid listening disc that poses much promise for the years ahead. “Nostalgia Op.1" sets the course early with an intuitive, rolling ease that belies these young players years. “Imaging the Fourth Dimension" continues the flow as each player establishes his place in the mix while allowing the other ...

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Drummer Lionel Beuvens Touches The Sky With His Latest Album '49 Steps To Heaven'

Drummer Lionel Beuvens Touches The Sky With His Latest Album '49 Steps To Heaven'

Source: Nina Feri

After years of touring and recording as a sideman, which saw him play on forty records, and also release two of his own very contemporary sounding albums, Trinité and Earthsong, Lionel Beuvens presents this ambitious new project under the Hypnote Records label. Reuniting the talented Alexi Tuomarila (piano), Brice Soniano (double bass) and Kalevi Louhivuori (trumpet), joined at times by Ewout Pierreux (rhodes) and Frank Vaganee (alto saxophone). This offering confirms the richness of his repertoire, nourished by jazz as ...

"Beuvens, Louhivuori, Tuomarila et Soniano sont d’une complémentarité exemplaire. Mélodies et développements dissonants, interactions denses, rythmique touffue, pulsation régulière… La musique de Trinité fleure bon un néo-bop moderne pimenté de free et de world." Bob Hatteau pour le Blog Le Monde.fr "Je m’attendais à un concert d’une belle tenue, mais pas d’une telle intensité et d’une telle inventivité."http://jazzques.skynetblogs.be/ "This is a toughtful, well-executed session on nine originals written by Beuvens that include the moody 'Jessica', the exuberant 'Seven' and the carefully calibrated 'So True'." (Jazzwise)

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Double Portrait

Hypnote Records
2023

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Secret Exit to...

Origin Records
2022

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Interaction: Live At...

Hypnote Records
2022

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49 Steps To Heaven

Hypnote Records
2022

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The Endless Way

Hypnote Records
2019

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Songbook

Hypnote Records
2017

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Bad Fortune

From: Double Portrait
By Lionel Beuvens

The Other Side

From: Secret Exit to Another Dimension
By Lionel Beuvens

Nostalgia Op.1

From: Songbook
By Lionel Beuvens

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