Michel Herr

Belgian jazz pianiste, composer and arranger

Michel Herr (born 16 February 1949 in Brussels) is a Belgian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. In addition to releasing jazz albums, composing for jazz ensembles and touring widely as a performing musician, he has also composed scores for films. As a bandleader he founded several bands: Solis Lacus, Michel Herr European Quintet, Michel Herr & Unexpected Encounters. He is also a music producer.

In 2020 he was awarded the Prix Sabam for Culture – Compositeur de Jazz 2019 for his album Positive / Music for sextet and string quartet (Igloo Records, 2019).

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Works

Acapulco Bells
Bad Fever
Bass Boom
Black Rose Stomp
Celebration Suite: Prelude / Bells / New Page / The Next 20 Years
Chemistry and Mystery
Club Groove
Continuous Flow
Distant Echoes
Double Talk
Extremes
Flagey, a New Era: Past Splendor / Hibernation / The Awakening / Sailing Again
Good Guess
I Think of You
Jeff's Funeral
Make It Count
Modules
Multibutes
New Horizons
Out of the Silence
Pages and Chapters
Pentaprism
Second Look
Short Story
Something for Me
Something of Me
Song From Your Father
Song for Lucy
Song for Micheline
Springboard
String Positive
The Positive Side
The Right Choices?
Thinkin' of You
Unexpected Encounters