Jazz Played Here
Toots Jazz Club
Brussels
by Peter Maguire*
Toots Jazz Club is a relatively new jazz venue in the heart of Brussels, right by the Grand-Place. It opened at its current location in 2025, as a tribute to Belgian jazz legend Toots Thielemans, and is run by the Toots Live association.The club features modern New York jazz, plus swing, mainstream, hard bop, funk, and gypsy jazz and hosts international musicians on a regular basis. The atmosphere is intimate, lively and deliberately "old-school jazz-club-like", with a weekly Wednesday night jam; Thursdays–Saturdays often have late jams after the main concerts too. Bar: beers, cocktails, wine/champagne and non-alcoholic drinks, with simple snacks such as cheese and charcuterie are on offer. It is a great venue for both musicians and jazz aficionados.Toots can be found at 6 Rue des Chapeliers, 1000 Brussels. Its website with more information is here.
Here is a short video extract with Rick Margitza playing Cry Me A River at the club :
*Trombonist Peter Maguire is based in Belgium and is the creator of the Jazz Clubs Worldwide website, a valuable database if you are looking for jazz clubs elsewhere. Peter will be telling us of other clubs in future issues.
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