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Soren Kjaergaard

Søren Kjærgaard’s work as a pianist, composer and improviser encompasses a variety of settings ranging from his trans-Atlantic trio with drummer Andrew Cyrille and bassist Ben Street, to the duo collaboration with Torben Ulrich, the 82 year old legendary Danish tennis player and inter-disciplinary artist. Most of S.K.’s activities in recent years have been exploring and interweaving different approaches to music and sound, converging elements of improvisation, composition, performativity and practice into one dynamic field of play. This has lead to a manifold of international exchanges, commissions and a growing discography of critically acclaimed albums S.K

Spirit Spirit

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Spirt Spirit I - X; Spirit Spirit: Eplilogue.

We Sick, Soojung Lee, Jane Ira Bloom & Novembre

by Maurice Hogue
April 3, 2023

The release of We Sick is not until the end of April, but definitely watch for this fiery work of improvisation and passion. Not long after George Floyd's murder, pianist deVon Russell Gray, saxophonist Nathan Hanson & drummer Davu Seru recorded We Sick in an abandoned church across from the Minnesota state capitol which was surrounded ...

Syvmileskridt

By Soren Kjaergaard

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Cyrillic Circle (In); Syvmileskridt; Under A Canopy of Leaves; 4x12; Ballad No. 4; Tripple Skip; Beryllic Bell; Intersection No. 7; Cyrillic Circle (Out).

Soren Kjaergaard / Ben Street / Andrew Cyrille: Syvmileskridt

by Jakob Baekgaard
March 27, 2014

The relationship between stillness and movement is something that has occupied pianist Søren Kjærgaard for a long time and with bassist Ben Street and drummer Andrew Cyrille, Kjærgaard has found the perfect vehicle to explore the essence of musical creation. Syvmileskridt is the fourth album from the trio. Each musician is a master ...

Soren Kjaergaard / Ben Street / Andrew Cyrille: Femklang

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 11, 2012

In his liner notes to the seminal Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959), pianist Bill Evans wrote eloquently about the link between Japanese visual art and improvisation, using the description of the technique of minimalistic painting as an analogy to the process of musical creation. Evans emphasized the need for an uninterrupted and natural approach to music ...

Femklang

By Soren Kjaergaard

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Loop (Variation One); A Diminished Proposal; Row No. 18; Tale of Weaving; Gravities of Play; Formindskede Smuler; Pedestra Pantonale; Chords & Clusters, Untitled; The Loop (Variation Two).

Open Opus

By Soren Kjaergaard

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Like A Motherless Sun (For Sun Ra); Floating World (Ukiyo); Kanon-I-Ka; Open Opus 3; Places Birds Fly From; Open Opus 5; Fatha; Abrahms' Paraphrase; Naya.

Soren Kjaergaard / Ben Street / Andrew Cyrille: Open Opus

by Jakob Baekgaard
December 9, 2010

While it may be easy to be daunted by the sheer pyrotechnics of musicians flexing their instrumental muscles, it is sometimes forgotten that the greatest ability of musical art is to let the listener in to be part of the process; in the best of all worlds, pure admiration is replaced by participation. Danish pianist Soren ...

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 21, 2009

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...