Home » Search Center » Results: Denmark
Results for "Denmark"
Bro/Knak: Bro/Knak
by John Kelman
Following three consistently fine recordings as a leader--2009's The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1, 2010's Balladeering and 2011's Time (all on the Danish guitarist's own Loveland imprint)--in addition to international visibility gained through work with Paul Motian on the drummer's Garden of Eden (ECM, 2006) and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko's Dark Eyes (ECM, 2010), Jakob ...
Valby Summer Jazz 2012: Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-15, 2012
by Jakob Baekgaard
Valby Summer JazzPrøvehallen in Valby and The Betty Nansen TheatreCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 6-15, 2012 Good things tend to grow, at least when there's passion and dedication involved, and Valby Summer Jazz, which primarily takes place at the outskirts of Copenhagen in the suburb of Valby, is indeed a labor of love that ...
Niels Lyhne Lokkegaard: Vesper
by John Kelman
While people debate the recent re-emergence of vinyl as not just a viable hard media for music, but a better one sonically, few can argue the beauty of experiencing cover art, expanded from the 5"x5" limitation of a CD cover, to the glorious, now almost larger than life beauty of a 12"x12" long-player sleeve. If cover ...
Radio Bevort with Marcelo Nisinman: Perfect Organization
by Ian Patterson
Radio Bevort with Marcelo Nisinman Perfect Organization Gateway Music 2011 Multi reed player/composer/vocalist Pernille Bévort 's last outing as leader was in 2007, on the impressive Playground 1 (Calibrated), with pianist Marie Louise Schmidt. Bevort, however, hasn't been idle, participating in several big band recordings and performing in ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz FestivalVarious VenuesCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 2-11, 2010 With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of keeping ...
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 ...
Stefan Pasborg & Liudas Mockunas: Toxicum
by John Kelman
Toxicum means poison, and that's about as good a description as any of this band and its music. More traditional musical ideas are perverted by a modern creative music bent that makes for an ambitious concept, and even more audacious listening; to call this album challenging would be an understatement. Percussionist Stefan Pasborg ...
