The same strength and the same clarity in his music as Bert Joris... A musician you really need to discover RTBF (Be), 23-5-2023.
A treat for brass fans​...Labbé's quintet offers current mainstream jazz at the top level - superbly composed, professionally played, very awake, very clean...The ten quintet gems suggest that Labbé is a clever, perfectionist big band arranger.
Jazz thing (De), Hans-Jürgen Schaal, 12-10-2023 "Flugelhorn and trombone melt superbly in this recording. The album comes as a beautiful surprise and the music is enchanting. It speaks immediately." Le Soir (Be), Jean-Claude VanTroyen, 01-8-2023 ... Intelligent sounds and sleek colors as well as occasional swinging interludes define the nine compositions of the leader.
Concerto (At), 08-9-2023 Flugelhorn, trombone, piano, double bass, drums. Rémy Labbé superbly assembles the timbres in "Careless Territories" which is released by Challenge.
Radio France (Fr), 09-6-2023 Possessing a wonderful "butter tone" (remember Fats Navarro?) Remy has a knack for wrapping up great compositions, as evidenced on his album 'Careless Territories', available on Challenge RTBF (Be), Philippe Baron, Jazz, MusiQ3, 8-6-2023.
Faithful to the tradition defended by artists such as Woody Shaw, Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer or even Quincy Jones, Rémy Labbé has made an album as swinging as it is elegant and as refined as it is uninhibited. Careless Territories is totally successful, full of surprises and energy that we listen to and re-listen to with ever-renewed happiness. Listen to this "Say It", worthy of a Thad Jones!" Jazzques (Be), 12-5-2023 Phil Abraham se sent comme un poisson dans l’eau avec ce quartet qui baigne dans le groove et le post-bop. Un album qui nous fait vibrer! JazzMania (Be), Jean-Pierre Goffin, 13-6-2023 A wonderful album that once again proves that jazz in Belgium is at a very high level, just like in the Netherlands Rootstime (Be), 01-8-2023 ... Careless Territories shines ..., sounds more "European", clearly breaks the chains of tradition, but does not abandon them completely, and thus the Rémy Labbé Quintet has succeeded in a relatively independent and individual production, which creates an exciting mood with freely developing passages of many songs ...
Musikansich (De), 24-7-2023 ... Melodic solos on a solid foundation, a little old school swing, some 60s groove and of course tastefully executed ballads.
NaDann Magazine (De), 18-5-2023 ... It a pleasure to listen to this quintet quintet as it explores its musical boundaries and creates captivating jazz soundscapes landscapes.
Inmusic (De), 01-7-2023 Some fine brass playing here, with Labbé's warm flugel sound blending with Abraham soft but flexible trombone playing. The Tunes have a lot of variety. Many of the songs transform in feel and rhythm along the way keeping us surprised and they don't stick to everyone soloing in order but rather mixe things up and include a lot of interplay. They're always conscious of this horn interplay working out some nice harmonized figures in the line. The horn arrangements are skillful and fun! Adult Music (Jpn), 05-6-2023

Evolution After studying the classical piano, the guitar and harmony, Phil Abraham was seduced by jazz and the trombone, on which he is self-taught. His stylistic evolution is parallel to the history of jazz, and even if he is a modern soloist today, he has worked with a wide variety of great musicians.
Phil has taken part in more than sixty albums, eleven with his own group, with which he won many prizes. He has often been invited in big bands as a soloist. He took part in many recordings and concerts of the big band of the Belgian Radio (BRT). Phil Abraham also devotes his career to teaching, training courses and master-classes. He was a teacher of vocal improvisation in Antwerp and Brussels. He is now a jazz and trombone teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and at the National Conservatory in Douai (France).
Has played with Michel PETRUCCIANI, Charles AZNAVOUR, Claude NOUGARO, Clark TERRY, Hal SINGER, Toots THIELEMANS, Klaus IGNATZEK, John SURMAN, Art FARMER, Michel HERR, Andy EMLER, Paolo FRESU, John ENGELS, Dusko GOYKOVICH, Benny BAILEY, Bart VAN LIER, Henri TEXIER, Klaus WEISS, Deborah BROWN, Maria SCHNEIDER, John LEWIS, Lou BENNETT, Claudio RODITI, William SHELLER, Didier LOCKWOOD, Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, Michel LEGRAND, Lucky PETERSON, Mino CINELU ...
Awards 1988 : first Prize at the International Jazz Contest in Sorgues (France) 1989 : Prize of the Best Soloist at the "Concours de la Défense" in Paris 1998 : chosen as the best Belgian and European trombone player by the listeners of the Belgian radio and the Belgian critics 1999 : elected once again the best Belgian and European jazz trombonist 2000 : second Prize at the International Contest of jazz soloists in Monaco.
His Quartet record "Stapler" (Igloo IGL 091), with Michel HERR, Jean-Louis RASSINFOSSE and Stéphane GALLAND was chosen as the CD of the month by the Belgian jazz magazine "Jazz In Time". His CD "En Public" (Lyrae records, LY9703007) was selected as the CD of the month by the French "Jazz Magazine" in October '97.
Events Was chosen by the Belgian Radio (BRT) to represent Belgium in the Big Band of the European Broadcasting Union in Strasbourg (France). Was invited in 1994 as a soloist at the Moscow Concert Hall for a TV concert with the Moscow Big Band. Was the first Belgian Jazzman to be a member of the "Orchestre National de Jazz" in France, that he joined for 3 years with Laurent CUGNY, then stayed with Didier LEVALLET for additional 3 years. Replaced Bob BROOKMEYER in Michel PETRUCCIANI sextet, with Victor JONES (drs), Anthony JACKSON (bass), Flavio BOLTRO (tp) and Stefano DI BATTISTA (sax). Participated (1998) in the album "Jazznavour" of the French singer Charles AZNAVOUR, in which he played all the trombone parts. Other participants include Jacky TERRASSON (p), André CECCARELLI (drs), Remy VIGNOLO (b). Arrangements are by Pierre DREVET (tp) and there are other celebrity guests like Michel PETRUCCIANI, Diane REEVES, Richard GALLIANO and Eddy LOUIS ...
Was a member of the International Dusko GOYKOVICH Big Band (February 2004) for a big TV-concert in Belgrade supported by the Minister of Culture.
Has developped a new jazz trombone for the Courtois Company, the Xtreme AC 430T model.
Was invited in Seattle in May 2013 for concerts and master-classes and recorded a new album in New York in February 2014 with Sylvain Luc (g), Hein Van de Geyn (cb) and Mino Cinelu (perc) Bria Skonberg (tp) - guest.

Rémy Labbé is a belgo-luxembourgish Jazz Trumpet Player, Arranger, Big Band Leader "Le Big Band de Rémy Labbé" and Educator.
A graduate of Berklee College of Music (BM '15) and Manhattan School of Music (MM '18), Rémy is an Arranger for the Grammy-Award-winning band The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra directed by Arturo O'Farrill', as well as for the WE Big Band (Hasselt, Be), the Greg Ruvolo Collective (NYC), the Big Up Band (Geneva, Ch), the Geneva Chamber Orchestra - OCG (Geneva, Ch), and the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra (Lu) directed by Ernie Hammes. Since November 2025 he is a Jazz Trumpet and Jazz Theory Professor at the Jazz Department from the Luxembourg Music Conservatory (Luxembourg City, Lu). Currently his main projects are the Rémy Labbé Quintet (Challenge Records, May 2023 and November 2026) as well as Eddy Pero et le Big Band de Rémy Labbé (Paris, Fr). As a sideman Labbé can be heard with the Vincent Thekal Quintet (Be), the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra (Lu), Josh Island (Lu), and the Luxembrass quintet (Lu).