NOVA feat. Aaron Parks & Jeff Ballard
Live at Like A Jazz Machine 
International Jazz Festival Dudelange
May 11th 2024

Ben van Gelder • Alto Sax
Nelson Veras • Acoustic Guitar
Aaron Parks • Piano
Félix Zurstrassen • Bass Guitar 
Jeff Ballard • Drums

Spring Air

Born into a family of musicians, Félix Zurstrassen has been surrounded by music since his childhood. He discovered the electric bass when he was 14 years old and since then, has never stopped loving and playing the instrument. Jazz music and improvisation quickly took an important place in his instrumental practice.
From 2005 to 2010 he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Michel Hatzigeorgiou’s class and obtained his diploma with a high grade.Then he dedicated several years of his time to the study of the double bass. Following a year of studying under Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, he graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in Christophe Wallemme’s double bass class. 
             Félix Zurstrassen is a versatile musician and has the ability to easily adapt to many specificities, genres and musical styles. He has quickly become integrated on the Belgian jazz scene as a side-man on many varying and different projects. That’s how he has become one of the most appreciated bass players of his generation.  As proof of this, Félix Zurstrassen was awarded Sabam's “Young Talent” Jazz Award in 2017 "because he serves as a convergence and rallying point for the young Belgian jazz scene by contributing to the principal projects that define it.” 

You might have heard him playing with Antoine Pierre Urbex, LG Jazz Collective, Pierre de Surgères Trio with Teun Verbruggen, David Thomaere Trio, Igor Gehenot Trio, Fabrizio Cassol Conference of the Birds, Typh Barrow, Alain Pierre Tree-Ho !, Musicazur, Steve Houben, Charles Loos, Nicola Andrioli, Fabian Fiorini Vincent Bruyninckx, Alexandra Grimal, Bo Vanderwerf, The KMG’s, Lionel Beuvens, Stijn Cools, Yves Peeters Hallucinations, Nicolas Kummert, Jacques Pirotton, Lorenzo Di Maio, Alexandre Cavalière, Peter Hertmans, Lieven Venken, Sorin Zlat and many others. 
              Félix Zurstrassen has recent created his own trio with the famous guitarist Nelson Veras and the talented drummer Antoine Pierre.