Bio.
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).
Press.
Highlights.
Education and Awards.
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).
Press.
- The same strength and clarity in his music as Bert Joris. RTBF
- A clever, perfectionist big band arranger. JAZZ THING #150
Highlights.
- Leader of the Rémy Labbé Quintet - Careless Territories was released on Challenge Records International on May 5th 2023, the second one is set to be released in November 2026.
- An Arranger for Serge Schonckert and the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra. ('Queen Swings! A new kind of Magic' - March 7th 2025 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg)
- An Orchestrator/Arranger for the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève (OCG) directed by Maestro Arie Van Beek. ( A Tribute to Stevie Wonder - Dec 5th 2020. )
- A featured Arranger for the Grammy-Award-Winning band The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on the album Virtual Birdland released on April 9 2021, as well as on various projects: the Abu Dhabi tour, An Evening of Fandango, the Chamber Music project Songs of Love and Resistance, etc.
- A Writer/Arranger for the Greg Ruvolo Collective as part of Greg's Tribute to Clark Terry back in May 2019 at Birdland Jazz Club (NYC) .
- In April 2019 Labbé appeared as an arranger on Grammy-Award-Winning artist Jordan Rudess' album Wired For Madness, featuring Joe Bonamassa on Guitar.
Education and Awards.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Manhattan School of Music (MM '18). After two years of mentorship with James 'Jim' McNeely.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music (BM '15).
- Recipient of the Ray Kotwica Brass Award from Berklee College of Music for 'Outstanding Musicianship' in 2013
- A recipient of the European-Tour-Award scholarship from Berklee College of Music in 2012.
- Holder of a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering (MMs '09) from the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) .
- Holder of a Superior Prize ("Prix supérieur en trompette Jazz", class of G. Waltzing) from the Luxembourg Music Conservatory (Lu).