Jazz & blues
Nostalgia In Grand-Place : Mathieu Najean Plays Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhardt
About
What to expect
Toots Jazz Club revisits the meeting between jazz legends Coleman Hawkins and Django Reinhardt in this new edition of Nostalgia in Grand-Place.
- Mathieu Najean on tenor saxophone
- Renaud Dardenne on manouche guitar
- Music from their 1935 and 1937 sessions
- American swing meets Hot Club de France
- Intimate club near the Grand-Place
Listen before you go
Music by the act, found on YouTube and Deezer.
Questions
When does Nostalgia In Grand-Place : Mathieu Najean Plays Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhardt start and end?
Nostalgia In Grand-Place : Mathieu Najean Plays Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhardt runs Sunday, 6 December 2026, 16:30.
Where is Nostalgia In Grand-Place : Mathieu Najean Plays Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhardt?
Nostalgia In Grand-Place : Mathieu Najean Plays Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhardt takes place at Toots Jazz Club, Hoedenmakersstraat, Brussels.
What is the historical background?
The description links the concert to American tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins’s stay in Europe from 1934 to 1939.
He performed and recorded in several countries with the best local musicians.
In Paris he met Django Reinhardt.
Their legendary sessions were in 1935 and on 28 April 1937.
The 1937 session was recorded as Coleman Hawkins and His All Star Jam Band, with Benny Carter, André Ekyan and Stéphane Grappelli.
Which songs are named?
The description names Stardust, Avalon and Blue Moon from the 1935 session, where Hawkins sang his first choruses next to Django Reinhardt’s swinging guitar.
It also names Crazy Rhythm, Honeysuckle Rose, Out of Nowhere and Sweet Georgia Brown from the 28 April 1937 session.
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Getting there
Toots Jazz Club, Hoedenmakersstraat, 1000 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, BE
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