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title: "Matthieu Van \"The Seventh Son\" • Raw and Groovin'"
url: "https://toots.brussels/en/concert/7926/matthieu-van-the-seventh-son"
locale: "en"
type: "concert"
date: "2025-11-21T18:30:00+00:00"
site: "Toots Jazz Club"
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# Matthieu Van "The Seventh Son" • Raw and Groovin'

- **Date** : Friday 21 November 2025 · 19:30
- **Venue** : Toots Jazz Club, 6 rue des Chapeliers, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- **Line-up** : Matthieu Van (p, voc) ; Sal La Rocca (b) ; Matthias De Waele (dr)
- **Genres** : blues, mainstream, traditional, vocal

## Biography

If there’s one hidden and far too rare talent on the Belgian jazz scene, it’s **Matthieu Van**. A pianist and multi-instrumentalist brimming with ideas — a true human jukebox when he gets going (and even a reggae drummer in his spare time) — he never stops surprising with his voracious musical appetite.  
He’s best known as a pianist whose playing drips with the spirit of the blues, unfolding riffs as naturally as others recite the alphabet.  
In his new project _The Seventh Son_, he revisits the world and unique style of **Mose Allison**, a Delta bluesman from Mississippi who, despite his white origins, made this music his own, blending it effortlessly with the vocabulary of swing and be-bop.  
A sort of alter ego to Matthieu Van, when you think about it.  
Here, the trio celebrates the universality of the blues with perfectly grooving music — raw, honest jazz with laid-back accents, where Allison’s ironic lyrics find a modern echo.

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