Jazz Articles about Jesper Lundgaard

About Jesper Lundgaard

Album Review

Danish bassist Jesper Lundgaard likens the making of the latest album with his trio to cooking a successful meal: “Eight new songs, two standards, sax, bass, guitar, three microphones, the recording machine, 12 hours playing, 12 hours mixing, 12 hours design stuff, 12 hours practical stuff, four weeks of waiting, everything stirred thoroughly." Or, in musical terms, “We tried to create an intimate album, utilizing a minimalistic approach." One way or another the result is a wonderfully ...

Album Review

Jesper Lundgaard, featuring Enrico Pieranunzi & Alex Riel: 60 Out Of Shape

Read "60 Out Of Shape" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
September 10, 2015

Back in the glory days the Copenhagen jazz club Montmartre was known as “The Village Vanguard of Europe." In the 1960s some of the biggest names in the music played there: Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz... the list goes on. And on: Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter... The resurrection of the club in 2010, masterminded by Danish pianist Niels Lan Doky was headlined “Rebirth of the ...