Results for "Anders Mogensen"

Anders Mogensen

Jerry Bergonzi Dog Star

By ANDERS MOGENSEN

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2019

Soren Bebe: Echoes

By MIKE JURKOVIC

A yearning reticence lies at the heart of Echoes, Norwegian pianist Soren Bebe's sixth trio disc. Stark yet beautiful at all times, Echoes follows in the spacious, introverted soundscapes of fellow Danish pianistsTord Gustavsen and the late Esbjorn Svensson. Neo-classical in structure yet open to the tides, the Bebe written title track leads off ...

Walt Weiskopf European Quartet: Worldwide

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

These days a lot of jazz records seem to require a musical concept or an idea that unites the compositions on the album, but it doesn't have to be so complicated. After a tour in January 2019 with his European Quartet, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf went into a studio in Copenhagen with the band, and a ...

Chaos Commander

By ANDERS MOGENSEN

Label: AMM Group
Released: 2018
Track listing: Chaos Commander Free Le Rock Mystique Schizophrenic Clock Watcher Someday Whollotta love You Are all the things I want Minor Man

Morten Haugshøj Group: The Street Doctor

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

Even though Danish guitarist Morten Haugshøj has been a familiar presence on the jazz scene in Aarhus for a long time, his album The Street Doctor feels like a new a beginning. Perhaps it has something to do with the stylish cover art drawn by illustrator and pianist, Simon Eskildsen, who also plays on the album. ...

Forget Old Europe: 15 European Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

By ENRICO BETTINELLO

Since the first half of the 20th century, the Old Continent has played a pivotal role both in welcoming and supporting jazz artists from the United States. Over the following decades it has expressed generations of passionate musicians with increasingly original languages and ever greater improvisatory skills. In the 21st century there are countless ...

Garzone / Bergonzi / Moses / Andersson: Splitting up in Boston

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

Back in 2013, renowned saxophonists George Garzone and Jerry Bergonzi recorded an album together that came out in 2014 on the Danish label Stunt. The name of the album was Quintonic and it sounded just as one might expect; wonderful music with fiery blowing, swinging tunes, tight grooves and razor-sharp twists and turns and lyric moments ...

Mads la Cour's Almugi: Quartet

By EYAL HAREUVENI

Almugi is an ancient Scandinavian word that describes free men of the Kingdom who are gifted with exceptional goodness. It is also the name of an ongoing musical project of Danish cornet and trumpet player Mads la Cour, member of the Danish Radio Big Band. The first recording of this project featured la Cour in a ...

Introducing Polish Trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski

By EYAL HAREUVENI

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski, now based in Denmark, is a rising and promising force in the European scene. He has a strong, instantly recognizable sound and expressive tone. His versatile musical language references the American fiery free jazz, Eastern European and Balkan folk music, the Scandinavian contemplative jazz and contemporary, avant-garde music. Dąbrowski already released eleven ...