Steve Houben (born 19 March 1950 in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist and flutist.
[1] In the mid-1970s, Houben attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
When he returned to Belgium, he established the jazz seminar at the Liège conservatory, in association with Henri Pousseur.
In his long career he played with Joe Newman, Bill Frisell, Toots Thielemans, Chet Baker, Mike Stern, George Coleman, and Gerry Mulligan.
Houben was one of the first musicians to see the potential of the singer Melanie De Biasio, inviting her to perform at several concerts and a tour of Russia.