Past project · Big band
Q-Some Big Band
An eighteen-piece contemporary jazz orchestra from Belgium, where Gabriele di Franco played guitar and wrote in the Q-Some Composer Hub, from 2019 to 2025.
About the band
- 18
- musicians, artistic direction by Manten Van Gils
- 2
- albums: Dreamin' (2020) and Consoulin' (2022)
Q-Some Big Band is a contemporary jazz orchestra that offers a platform to the newest generation of jazz musicians in Belgium. Through the Q-Some Composer Hub they explore the richness of sound and colour that a modern big band has to offer. With their invariably refreshing arrangements, innovative programs and unexpected musical collaborations, this orchestra goes beyond the limits, in which the passion for the profession, the warmth within the band and especially bigger dreams are clearly audible.
Gabriele di Franco played guitar in the band and was one of the four composers of the Q-Some Composer Hub, with Manten Van Gils, Robbe Willems and Pierre-Antoine Savoyat. He wrote Blues for F for Dreamin', Berlin and Nguè for Consoulin', and Missa L'Homme Armé for big band and choir for Crossing Borders (2024), the project with the Viermaliks choir in which European composers reread Flemish polyphony.
