Mineral Jazz #5: Christian Mendoza Trio/Bender Banjax

The names for the fifth Mineral Jazz evening have been announced!

Christian Mendoza Trio

This group combines its own compositions, interpretations of modern standards and free improvisation. They try to draw on various influences within jazz, classical contemporary, free jazz, but sometimes also cha cha cha, or something else... to achieve a balance between arrangement, composition and spontaneity, improvisation,... freedom.< /p>

Christian Mendoza - piano

Yannick Peeters - bass 3

Lionel Beuvens - drums

Bender Banjax

Bender Banjax is an acoustic jazz quartet that playfully improvises with compositions by Erik Bogaerts. They always look for an interesting mix of jazz traditions and contemporary grooves.

The group was created after a collaboration between students from the dance school P.A.R.T.S and the Brussels conservatory class of Kris Defoort. Together with the dance students they played at various festivals in Marseille, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Ghent and Brussels.

Erik Bogaerts - sax

Christian Mendoza - piano

Yannick Peeters - bass

Lionel Beuvens - drums