Jazz Articles about Jacob Christoffersen

Benjamin Koppel: The Ultimate Soul & Jazz Revue

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 21, 2021

Listen to music long enough, and it's almost bound to happen: You're not sure exactly what you want to listen to, but you know that whatever you listen to needs must bump and groove. The Ultimate Soul & Jazz Revue, an anthology of American jazz, soul and R&B recorded live at a Copenhagen music festival by Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel and his big band, is some first-rate scratch for that itch. Ultimate Soul & Jazz neatly packages Koppel's ...

Jacob Christoffersen Trio: Facing the Sun

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 10, 2006

Danese, pianista e compositore, trentotto anni, una carriera di richiestissimo side-man alle spalle, Jacob Christoffersen ha da poco intrapreso l’avventura solistica. Sei anni dopo JazzXperience, album d’esordio come band-leader di un quartetto dalla marcata connotazione funky, licenzia per l’etichetta danese Stunt questo Facing the Sun, lavoro discografico nella classica formazione del piano trio. E proprio alla migliore tradizione americana degli storici jazz trios si rifanno Christoffersen, il batterista Jonas Joahnsen ed il contrabbassista Jesper Bodilsen. Facing the Sun è un ...

Jacob Christoffersen: Facing The Sun

by Annika Westman
December 13, 2005

Denmark has a great jazz tradition. Just like Paris, Copenhagen has been a haven for jazz musicians in exile (from the US, South Africa, etc.) for decades. Jazz has had a strong position in the city since the '40s, and many great players have been produced in this fertile climate, the best known being Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Well, here is another one that deserves international success: pianist Jacob Christoffersen.

The impression that strikes immediately and persists through the whole CD ...