Jazz Articles about Peter Brem

About Peter Brem

Album Review

Peter Brem: Peter Brem BIG Band / I Knew Orla Leans

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by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2004

In March I reviewed Natural Connections, the second album by composer/arranger Peter Brem’s superb Denmark-based big band. Herewith the first of its albums, recorded in March ’98, and the most recent, I Knew Orla Leans, from December ‘01, featuring the well-known Danish pianist Carsten Dahl.

Brem wrote and scored everything on both albums except for Dahl’s brief prologue, “For Peter,” preceding “Theme for a Young Mother” on Orla Leans, wherein Brem also solos twice on baritone sax (“New Blues,” “Still ...

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Album Review

The Peter Brem Big Band: Natural Connections

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by Jack Bowers
March 22, 2004

In reviewing a recent album by the Klüvers Big Band, I noted that Denmark, whose population is less than six million, is home to at least three world-class Jazz orchestras. Make that four.

Natural Connections, the second album by composer/arranger Peter Brem’s state-of-the-art big band, is an electrifying tour de force in which the ensemble puts its best foot forward on nine of the leader’s elaborate compositions and Miles Davis’ “All Blues,” stylishly interpreted by one of the country’s best-known ...