On 22 June, the Jazzdag (‘Jazz Day’) will take place. It serves as the kick-off to two weeks of jazz music in Rotterdam with North Sea Round Town and North Sea Jazz Festival. The day’s programme is made up of showcases of up-and-coming jazz talents. Bruut! will be performing that day at the Lantaren Venster in Rotterdam sometime between 20.00 and 1.00. Entrance is free! Click HERE for more information about the Jazzdag.

We’ve got some great news: Bruut! will play at this year’s North Sea Jazz festival. Be sure to get your tickets in time, because with a prime-time spot at 23:15h on Saturday the 7th of July, this is going to be a gig not to miss.

More information can be found here.

Saturday April 21st is Record Store Day. Plato celebrates it with in-store gigs, and Bruut! is playing three of them.

13.00h at Plato in Groningen
15.45h at Plato in Zwolle
18.00h at Plato/Gigant cafe in Apeldoorn

Be sure to check it out! Lots of other artists play throughout the day, and exclusive items are for sale especially for RSD. See the full program here.

The successful series ‘Cinema Concerts’ continues to take place not only every second Sunday of the month at the new EYE film museum, but also every fourth Sunday of the month. This week, Alfred Hitchcock’s film Blackmail with live music by BRUUT!

Hitchcock’s thriller about a young woman being captured by an extortionist exists in two versions, one with and one without sound. The mute version is considered superior from a dramatic point of view.

Tickets are available through eyefilm.nl and at the door. Reservation not possible.

Dox is celebrating their 15 year anniversary! With artists to be proud of, for once Dox itself will take the spotlight and throw a big party in Paradiso, Friday May 11th.

The last 15 years, Dox has been progressively active in developing the careers of Giovanca, Benny Sings, New Cool Collective, Benjamin Herman and Wouter Hamel, but also newcomers like Koffie and Bruut!. Today, Wouter Hamel is conquering Germany with his music, New Cool Collective and Giovanca are flying around the world to play shows in South-America, Africa and Asia, and Benny Sings is on an international tour as support act of Mayer Hawthorne. In short: Dox hasn’t been sleeping the last 15 years. To celebrate this birthday, Dox’ Family Night will come to Paradiso.

With: Wouter Hamel, Roos Jonker, Benny Sings, Giovanca, Steye, We’ll Make It Right, Bruut!, Koffie, Sumera, Cirque Valentin, Charlene, Knobsticker, Anton Goudsmit and DJ Git Hyper.

Tickets cost €19 (excl. membership) and are on sale HERE.

Click HERE for the 15 Years Dox event page on Facebook.

Do you want to get into the mood already, then listen to the special Dox 15 Years Spotify playlist HERE.

The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant gave the album four stars and wrote [dutch]: “‘Thanks to all our fans from all over the world and beyond’, staat vermeld in de binnenkant van de CD -kaft. Bruut! is een brutaal jazz gezelschap dat lak heeft aan formaliteiten en omgangsvormen in de jazzwereld. Dat blijkt uit elke noot op dit debuutalbum. In de compacte nummers klinkt sappige boogaloo en vlezige rhytm & blues. Bruut! perst ze in moddervette jazz. Het is een en al ranzigheid die je hoort: de brulsax van Maarten Hoogenhuis is tandenknarsend lekker en Folkert Oosterbeek laat zijn orgel gorgelen terwijl het slijm langs de wangen druipt. En op het einde nog een paar minuten eigenwijze impro. Bruut! maakt feestelijk lawaai zonder arrogantie, maar met bravoure. Live knalt ongetwijfeld het dak eraf.”

NU.nl also gave the album four stars and wrote: “The album sounds warm and spontaneous without too much fuss – exactly how such an album should sound” […] “Bruut! is not only a good jazz quartet but also a fantastic band – one that made a great impression at the Noorderslag festival. So the chances are high that you’ll be seeing them on a stage somewhere this summer. For those who can’t wait, the album is very much worth buying.” You can read the full review (in Dutch) here.

The Written in Music blog agrees and continues the four star spree: “Een album dat de komende tijd nog vaker in de CD-speler zal verdwijnen en waarbij de behoefte om de band eens live aan het werk te zien met iedere draaibeurt substantieel toeneemt. Het wordt een brute lente en een nog brutere zomer.”

The Dutch newspaper NRC also gave the album four stars.

You can listen to ‘Bruut!’ on Radio 6’s Luisterpaal and you can buy a copy in the Dox webshop or digitally via iTunes.

Bruut! is currently participating in the DuvelVibes Challenge as one of four inspirators. Next to other inspirators Eric Vloeimans, Gare Du Nord and Ruben Hein, they chose one of their tracks to be used as a starting point for participants in creating a cover, interpretation or edit. The best piece of music in the challenge has a chance of being released on the legendary Blue Note label, so get at it!

You can sign up for the DuvelVibes Challenge here (dutch), and you can view Bruut!’s inspirator page right here. Bruut! will also play at the DuvelVibes showcase on March 5th at People’s Place Amsterdam.

Bruut! will release their self-titled debut album on the 9th of February at People’s Place Amsterdam. Don’t miss it, and get the album HERE.