Results for "Aarhus"

Blood, Sweat, Drum + Bass

Blood Sweat Drum + Bass consits of 27 musicians – three drums, two bass players, two synthesizers, one guitarist, one working laptop and electronics, 16 horns and two singers. The orchestra has been working with a wide variety of music including heavy metal, electronica, rock, pop, drum’n’bass, world music and – of couse – jazz. Their latest album “On the Road to Damascus” was released in 2012. This time the music was inspired by the composer’s travels in the Middle East and the notes for the orchestra were written in the Arabic quarter tone scales. Composer and conductor is Jens Christian “Chappe” Jensen

Jonas Kappel

Born: August 25, 1982

Jonas Kappel is a Danish guitarist and composer born in 1982 and now based in Aarhus. He released his first album “Aurora” in 2009, which received much critical acclaim. Since then he has released several albums and EPs with different groups. Jonas Kappel plays his own brand of jazz-rock on his latest release QUARTET, which features Jonas Kappel on guitar, Jonas Andreasen on saxophone, Jens Mikkel Madsen on double bass and Daniel Sommer on drums.

Frank Roberts

Born: August 9, 1950

Born and grew up in London.......worked there ..with Ronnie Scotts Band ...and most other placesd in Europe.. Now resident in Denmark

Take Five with OrgelDuo

by Daniel Sommer
April 2, 2019

About OrgelDuo Armed with drums and a hammond organ, the masterminds Daniel Sommer and Simon Eskildsen want to guide listeners and readers in their new homemade universe. Simon and Daniel are both professional musicians with several critically acclaimed albums behind them. Now they are investigating and developing the Organduo format—a comic book / record ...

Jakob Sørensen

Born: July 2, 1988

The Copenhagen based trumpeter Jakob Sørensen released the renowned debut album Bagland in 2015 and the follow up NOMAD back in 2016 with his own quintet playing his own compositions which really sat course for his future sound and career. In 2019 the third album Cirkel was released. Jakob’s work as a composer has been performed from duos to Big Band’s. Jakob has been touring all over Europe and with his own group in Sweden, Germany and Denmark. His style of playing has been compared to the playing of the ECM artist Nils Petter Molvær.


Jeppe Lavsen

Born: June 2, 1992

Jeppe Lavsen is a Danish guitarist and composer. He is most known through his work in Hvalfugl and Abekejser.

Kasper Staub: Slow Music for Fast Times

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 13, 2018

Pianist Kasper Staub entered the Danish jazz scene with his trio back in 2012 when he released the album / . The music was just as sparse as the title and introduced a fragile, airy sound, with simple melancholy melodies that were quite unlike anything on the Danish jazz scene at that time. Since then, Staub ...

12 Points Festival 2017

by Henning Bolte
August 6, 2017

12 Points Festival Aarhus, Denmark July 16-18, 2017 The program selection of 12 Points Festival organized by Irish Improvised Music Company gives an indication what's next, what might be strong groups in the near future based on a clear concept of artistic identity/ development, an intense and neat observation of young musicians/groups ...

Alex Jønsson: Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus

by Mark Sullivan
December 19, 2016

Recorded live at a living room concert, Heart of Gold presents an intimate portrait of Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jønsson and his trio. The title tune opens the set: it's not the well known Neil Young song, but it does have an Americana tinge. Drummer Andreas Skamby sets up a pillow of sound using mallets, bassist Jens ...

Jakob Buchanan: Requiem

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 27, 2015

One of the defining characteristics of mankind is the awareness of death as a part of the human condition. We all know that we are going to die. This awareness has been an inspiration to many artists and it could be said that art itself is a way of coming to terms with death. This is ...