Artists
Piet Verbist
Instrument:
double bass
Ensembles:
Octurn
Ben Sluijs Quartet
Jan de Haas Quintet
Hendrik Braeckman Group
Bram Weijters-Chad McCullough Quartet
Biography
In 1994 he obtained a first prize as ‘Performing Jazz Musician’ at the Brussels Conservatoire. His career has been on the rise ever since and he has played with various famous musicians, both nationally and internationally: Eric Legnini, Nathalie Loriers, Paolo Fresu, Bert Joris, Jef Neve, Flavio Boltro, Mark Turner, Toots Thielemans etc.. He was a permanent member of the Jef Neve Trio for a while and recorded two albums on Universal Music with them (‘Nobody is Illegal’ and ‘Soul in a Picture’).
Today he is often heard playing with the Belgo-American Chad McCullough-Bram Weijters Quartet and his own group Zygomatik.