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Jens Jefsen
Member Since: 2013 | Location: Aarhus | Page Views: 828 
About Me
Lyrical bass player
Acknowledged as being among the elite bass players in Denmark, Jefsen has with his wide ranging stylistic background, reaped kudos for his lyrically attentive personal style of playing. Since the 70’s Jefsen has had an infinite number of gigs in Denmark with American jazz musicians living in Denmark and abroad. Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Zoot Zims and Al Cohn are just a few of the people he has performed with. Jefsen has also, during the last 30 years, played with many trendsetting Danish groups. Most recently he has performed on the Danish scenes with musicians such as Bob Rockwell, Thomas Clausen, Alex Riel, Bob Mintzer, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Samuels, Paquito D’Rivera, Lars Jansson, Deborah Brown, Carmen Bradford, Matt Harris, Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, Dennis Mackrel, John Abercrombie, Lars Møller, Adam Nussbaum, Phil Markowitz, Jukkis Uotila, Bill Warfield, Ken Peplowski and many others. Besides performing, Jefsen teaches bass at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s department of non-classical music in Aarhus.
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This page was last updated on 2025-05-17.
