Tenor Saxophone, Flute,

    Plays with :
    Stengeforter Musek
    Various bigbands in Luxembourg and Belgium

Studies :
    
Totally self educated
    
Bigband Workshops
    
    Slide Hampton
    Michel Herr
    Frank Vaganée
    
Fav CD :

 Birdland
 Two blocks from the edge (M. Brecker)
 Blue Blot
 Warp 9 Brussels Jazz orchestra
    
Highlight : playing with the KBC Band in a full house at Gent Flandershall
    
Plays

Selmer VII Tenorsaxophone with Brancher mouthpiece, Brancher Ligature, Brancher Jazz Reeds
Selmer Super Balanced Action (1948) Alt with Brancher mouthpiece, Brancher Ligature and Brancher Jazz Reeds

Tenor saxophone since 2015

    Plays with :
    Luxembourg Marching Band

Studies :
    Classical saxophone studies at Conservatorio Nicola Sala (Benevento, Italy)
    
Workshops and collaborations :
    Siena Jazz (2007)
    
Fav CD :
    Joshua Redman - Elastic
    Francesco Bearzatti - Monk’n’roll
    Sonny Rollins - Plus 4
    Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling
    Francesco Bearzatti - Monk’n’roll
    Snurky Puppy, Kamasi Washington, Gerry Mulligan...

Plays a Selmer Super Action III with a Drake SOS 7 small chamber mouthpiece

Valy Lommel

Fav music : Everything really from rock over pop to funk and big band jazz.

Fav CD: Too many to mention but some all-time favourites are:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Wynton and Ellis Marsalis- Joe Cool's Blues
Ellis and Branford Marsalis - Loved ones
Tower of Power - Monster on a Leash
virtually anything by Freddie Mercury and Queen, Maynard Ferguson, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Robbie Williams, Marillion...and many more