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title: "Licorice Quartet • DANCERS WELCOMES"
url: "https://toots.brussels/en/concert/5882/licorice-quartet"
locale: "en"
type: "concert"
date: "2025-09-18T19:00:00+00:00"
site: "Toots Jazz Club"
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# Licorice Quartet • DANCERS WELCOMES

- **Date** : Thursday 18 September 2025 · 21:00
- **Venue** : Toots Jazz Club, 6 rue des Chapeliers, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- **Line-up** : Anton Kerkhof (cl) ; Guillaume Gillain (gt) ; Max Malkomes (b) ; Laurent Vigneron (dr)
- **Genres** : swing, traditional

## Biography

**Licorice Quartet**? What a funny name! Back in the early days of jazz in New Orleans, the clarinet was nicknamed the _“Licorice Stick”_…

Anton Kherkoff, one of the great specialists of the old style on this instrument, and Guillaume Gillain, an eternal swinger, have decided to pay tribute to the masters of the clarinet: Artie Shaw, Edmond Hall and of course Benny Goodman, the very first employer of Toots Thielemans 😉

An old-school swing moment, just the way we like it!

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