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Mads La Cour e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
September 9, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Mads La Cour: Onestà e sincerità. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. M.L.C.: La capacità di creare uno spazio libero all'interno di una forma rigida. AAJ: Come musicista, il momento in cui ...

Article: Album Review

Sands Fonnesbæk Riel: Take One

by Chris Mosey
September 8, 2015

In October 2014 pianist Christian Sands, a protégé of Billy Taylor, known mainly for with his work with bassist Christian McBride's trio, played two nights to remember at Copenhagen's legendary jazz club Montmartre. The highlights are captured on this Storyville double album. Sands plays with (rather than is accompanied by) phenomenal local bassist ...

Article: Interview

Simon Toldam: A New Perspective in Jazz

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 4, 2015

Danish pianist and composer Simon Toldam is a man who is used to getting involved in many different musical situations. Toldam thrives on diversity and he has played all kinds of music, from folk music to modern jazz and avant-garde. No matter what he is playing, he invests himself in the different musical contexts and brings ...

Article: Album Review

Jakob Bro: Hymnotic/Salmodisk

Read "Hymnotic/Salmodisk" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 3, 2015

The exploration of different musical formats has been one of the defining characteristics of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro for a long time. It makes perfect sense when you think about Bro's approach to music. He is an artist that likes to work with different voices to see what they can bring to the music.

Article: Live Review

Jazz for Kids: Copenhagen Jazz Festival

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 27, 2015

Jazz for Kids: Folkegaven (Kresten Osgood & Lars Greve) and Sun Ra for KidsCopenhagen Jazz Festival Søndermarken Park, Frederiksberg July 10, 2015 The Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a massive event, lasting 10 days, offering 1,200 concerts that envelope all corners of the Danish capital and draws an audience of about 250,000 ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

A New Danish Bassist on Top: Introducing Morten Haxholm

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 15, 2015

There is little doubt that Denmark has a proud tradition of fostering exceptional bassists -just think of names like Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Jesper Lundgaard, Bo Stief, Jesper Bodilsen and, more recently, Anders Christensen, Jonas Westergaard and Richard Andersson. Add Morten Haxholm to this ever growing list. Haxholm has been ambitious from the start. ...

Article: Album Review

Tomasz Dąbrowski FREE4ARTS: Six Months and Ten Drops

Read "Six Months and Ten Drops" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 11, 2015

FREE4ARTS may be the most Nordic-sounding group of Polish, Copenhagen-based prolific trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski. The quartet features colleagues from the musicians-run collective and record label Barefoot Records including baritone saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, who also plays in Dąbrowski international quartet Ocean Fanfare, and drummer Kasper Tom Christiansen, who collaborated before with Dąbrowski in the Polish-Danish trio ...

Article: Album Review

Mads la Cour's Almugi: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 28, 2015

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 ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc, Marilyn Mazur, Mads Vinding: Composing

Read "Composing" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
June 27, 2015

A magical mystery tour with two heavies of the avant garde and one good old reliable jazz bassist who fits in anywhere. To be more precise: American/Danish percussionist Marilyn Mazur, she of the frizzy hair and intense eyes; French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, he of the goatee beard and dark, moody gaze; and Denmark's Mads Vinding, he ...

Article: Album Review

Glostrup Trioen/Alice Carreri: Spirit

by Chris Mosey
June 27, 2015

Some time between 1000 and 1197, the Danish village of Glostrup was founded by a man called Glob. In the 17th century it comprised eight farms and 13 houses. Today, engulfed as a suburb by the capital Copenhagen, it even boasts its own jazz trio. Its members, Torben Kjaer (piano), Henrik Dhyrbye (bass) ...