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Article: Live Review

Mai Jazz 2014

Read "Mai Jazz 2014" reviewed by John Kelman


Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

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Nils Davidsen: Noget at glæde sig til: Solo Outburst In Various Frames Part I

Read "Noget at glæde sig til: Solo Outburst In Various Frames Part I" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Now and then a heavy instrument with low and deep resonance can sound very light; now and then a series of freely combined tones can nonetheless have a strong melodic feel; and now and then very mobile playing can sound tranquil. The double bass is a heavy, low register instrument, but in the hands of some ...

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013jny: Copenhagen, DenmarkJuly 12-14, 2013The annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with more than a thousand concerts during ten days--spread over more than hundred places and stages across the city--is a special, unique affair. Like other big jazz festivals, it also has its headliners--big names, mostly American, like Terence Blanchard, Richard Bona, ...

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ELBJazz Festival 2013: Hamburg, Germany, May 24-25, 2013

Read "ELBJazz Festival 2013: Hamburg, Germany, May 24-25, 2013" reviewed by John Kelman


ELBJazz FestivalHamburg, GermanyMay 24-25, 2013Attending a multitude of festivals each year, there's always the challenge of finding the hook--the thing that makes a festival different from any other. When it comes to Hamburg's ELBJazz Festival, now only in its fourth year, it's easy. A harbor town on the Elbe River, located just 70 ...

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Vossa Jazz 2013

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Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...

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Space Is The Place

Label: Carsten Lindholm
Released: 2012

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Jakob Bro: Searching for Beauty Through Sound

Read "Jakob Bro: Searching for Beauty Through Sound" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Beauty is perhaps one of the most common words used in association with music, but it is also one of the vaguest terms in musical criticism, and it rarely says something substantial about the work that is described. And yet, despite its intangible character, it would be almost impossible to characterize Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's music ...

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In Our Own Sweet Way

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: In Your Own Sweet Way; Maria Gennem Torne Går; It Could Happen To You; Beautiful Friendship; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Peace; Night And Day.

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...

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Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel: In Our Own Sweet Way

Read "In Our Own Sweet Way" reviewed by Chris Mosey


After Paris, Copenhagen was the European refuge for American jazz musicians fleeing racial and sometimes political oppression in their homeland in the postwar years. Ben Webster is buried there (in the same cemetery as Søren Kierkegaard), Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin locked horns there. Such greats created a solid local scene, which continues to produce some ...


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