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Mai Jazz 2014
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 ...
Nils Davidsen: Noget at glæde sig til: Solo Outburst In Various Frames Part I
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 ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013
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, ...
ELBJazz Festival 2013: Hamburg, Germany, May 24-25, 2013
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 ...
Vossa Jazz 2013
by John Kelman
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 ...
Jakob Bro: Searching for Beauty Through Sound
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 ...
In Our Own Sweet Way
By Carsten Dahl
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.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009
by Jakob Baekgaard
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 ...
Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel: In Our Own Sweet Way
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 ...