Results for "Denmark"

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Jyderup Accordeon Traef 2015: Meeting of the Master Improvisers

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 24, 2015

Jyderup Accordeon Traef Jyderup, Denmark June 14-21, 2015 Where do you find some of the greatest improvisers in music today? The answer, in a folk high school in the middle of a forest near a small Danish town called Jyderup, seems like a bad joke. Nevertheless, it is the truth ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Luther Thomas: In Denmark

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 10, 2015

Denmark has a long tradition of jazz immigration and in the land where the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen was born, it is truly a musical fairy tale that such great artists as saxophonists Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz have lived and worked in the country, along with pianists like Kenny Drew and Horace ...

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Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni, Mark Solborg: Maniscalco Bigoni Solborg

Read "Maniscalco Bigoni Solborg" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 8, 2015

Potremmo definirla con un termine di frequente usato e talvolta abusato improvvisazione da camera, per la pacatezza dell'ambientazione sonora, per la cura maniacale delle dinamiche, per l'assoluto controllo degli strumenti mai sopra le righe, per il rigore formale che pervade l'opera. Potremmo ma... sarebbe un torto nei confronti di un lavoro che va ben oltre i ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Masabumi Kikuchi / Ben Street / Thomas Morgan / Kresten Osgood

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 6, 2015

The German poet, philosopher and literary critic Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) had an affinity for the fragment as an art form and in his Athenaeumsfragment 206, he wrote about it, saying that: “[a] fragment, like a small work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself ...

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan at DR Koncerthuset Copenhagen

by Henning Bolte
May 23, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan DR Koncerthuset (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Balladeering tour Copenhagen, DenmarkMay 15, 2015 In Copenhagen on May 15th, at the new concert hall of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: acclaimed Danish film director Jørgen Leth welcomed an audience of 800 spectators to announce the ...

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Taylor's Universe: From Scratch

Read "From Scratch" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
May 18, 2015

If nothing else, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio rat Robin Taylor is consistent. Stylistically, he's done it all. His recordings-all self-produced and issued on his own Marvel of Beauty imprint-over the past two decades encompass everything from ambient soundscapes to free improvisation to straight-up hard rock. The past decade or so finds Taylor working exclusively with what ...

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Musikhuset Aarhus

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 17, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan Musikhuset Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark May 9, 2015 Great music gives great expectations. When it was announced that Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was going on tour with the core of players responsible for the musical magic on his trilogy: Balladeering (Loveland Records, ...

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Jakob Bro: Gefion

Read "Gefion" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 16, 2015

Throughout his career, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro has continued to refine and improve his musical expression. It has been a constant search that has taken him in many different directions, from the refined chamber-playing and melodic purity on the Balladeering-trilogy to remix experiments with electronic musician Thomas Knak. Another way he has challenged ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Blood, Sweat, Drum + Bass: In the Spirit of...

by Ian Patterson
May 15, 2015

The 25-30 piece Danish big band Blood Sweat Drums + Bass isn't your typical big band. The juggernaut steered by Jens Christian “Chappe" Jensen meshes traditional jazz sections of trumpet, saxophone and trombone with electronics and electric guitar, and has incorporated DJs and rappers on occasion. And, as the name intimates, a pulsating rhythm section comprising ...

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Ambient Jazz: Pauseland & Jakob Sørensen

by Jakob Baekgaard
April 30, 2015

In a world that is fast-paced and in constant movement, contemplation has become an increasingly important value. However, it is a value that it is sometimes hard to achieve. A possibility is to listen to music that invites it. The albums from Danish jazz group Pauseland and trumpeter Jakob Sørensen both offer room for introspection and ...