Seba Colson

Bio

Seba Colson is a trumpet player and bandleader based in Antwerp, Belgium. Born in 1998, he took piano lessons as a child and began playing the guitar at age fourteen. In his fourth year of secondary school, he attended the Kunsthumaniora (Arts High School) in Antwerp to focus more on music, where he was introduced to jazz and immediately fell in love with it.

In his sixth year of high school, he decided to learn how to play the trumpet, subsequently earning a Master's degree in Jazz trumpet at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp while studying under various teachers including Jarmo Hoogendijk, Kurt Van Herck, Carlo Nardozza, Rob Bruynen and Nico Schepers.

Today he leads the Seba Colson Quintet, Unfinished Business and the Fela Kuti Celebration Band, and plays as a fixed bandmember of Lucid Lucia, Arno Goossens Quartet, Hnita Bigband, Nana Osei, Jazbyssinia and ‘Nuff Said.

He has shared the stage with Mulatu Astatke, John Clayton, Chris Potter, Joe Bowie & Kim Clarke (Defunkt), Bert Joris, Gregory Hutchinson, Frank Vaganée, Zap Mama, Manou Gallo, Amir Sulaiman, K.ZIA and Rico, on stages ranging from Jazz Middelheim and Gent Jazz to the International Jazz Day Festival in Addis Ababa.

He was recently asked to be the Artist in Residence at De Singer for the season of 2026–2027. With Unfinished Business he was selected as Artist in Residence at Rataplan and Jazzcafé De Muze.