Jakob Warmenbol

Jakob Warmenbol (1988) started drumming at the age of 12. Two years later his interest in jazz grew after going to a summerschool in Dworp (Brussels) where he had lessons from Billy Hart & Dré Pallemaerts, among others. In 2006 he started his studies with Dré Pallemaerts at the Lemmensinstituut, Leuven, and participated in various workshops with musicians such as Adam Nussbaum, Mark Turner, Bill Carrothers, Dave Douglas, Eric Thielemans, Marek Patrman, Dave Liebmann,… In 2010 he continued his studies at the Conservatory of Antwerp, where he had lessons with Teun Verbruggen and graduaded in 2011.

At the moment Jakob is part of a few working bands: a trio called ‘Leksak’ with Johan Graden (piano, SE) and Laurens Smet (bass BE), a trio with Jean Dousteyssier (clarinet, FR) and Lennart Heyndels (bass, BE), a trio called ‘Ridiculum’ with Audrey Lauro (sax, FR) and Giotis Diamanidis (guitar, GR), ‘The Unrevealed Society’ (won ‘XL jazz competition’ Brussels and ‘Jong Jazztalent Gent’ 2012) with Léo Dupleix (piano, FR), Gregor Siedl (sax, AT) and Pol Belardi (bass, LU), ‘Zapf’ with Léo Dupleix (keys, FR) and Lucien Fraipont (guitar, BE), …

He had the opportunity to perform and work together with some reknown musicians  such as Greg Cohen (Jazz Middelheim Festival 2012), Jorrit Dijkstra, John Hollenbeck, Joachim Badenhorst, Sanne Van Hek, Guillaume Orti, Antoine Virard, Ben Sluijs, Erwin Vann, Manolo Cabras, Nic Thys, Augusto Pirodda, … and many others in various temporary projects.