Kris Defoort, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kris Defoort

Belgian musician

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1959

Place of Birth: Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: composer, pianist, musician, librettist, jazz musician

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Kris Defoort

  • Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer.
  • He was born on 30 November 1959 in Bruges.
  • He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory.
  • His brother is Bart Defoort (saxophonist and composer). He entered in 1978 the Antwerp conservatory to study early music and recorder.
  • He graduated 4 years later and he then decided to study contemporary music and jazz at the Liège conservatory.
  • Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur and Garrett List were among his teachers.
  • In 1986 Defoort released his first recording with his quintet Diva Smiles.
  • The next year, he went to New York to study at New York Long Island University, Brooklyn.
  • He recorded there with Vincent Herring and Jack DeJohnette.
  • On his return in 1991, he founded his own ensemble named K.D.'s Pretty Big Basement Party.
  • The following year, he recorded the first CD for De Werf label (based in Bruges) with K.
  • D.'s Basement Party.
  • They toured in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1991 and then released a CD called "Sketches of Belgium" the next year, a reference to Miles Davis's "Sketches of Spain".
  • The album, the first edited by De Werf, included an instrumental cover of Sting's Roxanne as well as two songs written by Thelonious Monk.
  • In 1995 Defoort composed (with Fabrizio Cassol) the Variations on a Love Supreme.
  • Defoort took part in the Octurn project in 1996 (he had already composed their 1994 album) and began to play with Mark Turner.
  • A year later he recorded with Aka Moon on Elohim.
  • He then formed a new ensemble (Dreamtime).
  • He also has his own quartet with Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Nicolas Thys (bass guitar and double bass) and Jim Black (drums).

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