J Hansen

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New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen

Source: Lars Hannibal
October 20, 2023

Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, ...
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Music Industry

Better Than the Van Co-Founder Todd Hansen on How to Tour Smarter

Source: We All Make Music
July 12, 2010

Better Than The Van's Founders, Scott Miller & Todd Hansen

Have you ever played a show to ten people somewhere in the hostile uncivilized territories of the midwest, slept in this very same van, freezing your ass off, curled up somewhere between an amp and a herniated disc?

Better Than the Van co-founder Todd Hansen has. He's also slept in worse places on tour. “My first or second tour, we landed in a machine shop sleeping on concrete in ...
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Interview

Tom Waits X Beck Hansen : PT. 1

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2009

Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction.

For the first in this series of conversations, the legendary musician and performer, Tom Waits agreed lend an hour of his time to talk about anything and nothing in particular.

In Part 1 of their conversation together, Hanson and Waits provide so many good moments that you're doing yourself a disservice by not reading the whole thing. Beck ...
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