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Article: Album Review

Torben Westergaard: Tangofied III

Read "Tangofied III" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

For the finale of his globe-spanning triptych (an unplanned endeavor that unexpectedly grew from the first installment's success), bassist Torben Westergaard considers himself to be making very much a return home. After the expanded cross-national lineup and largely Argentinian focus of Tangofied II (Gateway Music, 2014), he returned to his native Denmark to record only with ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band

Read "Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

A film director once said that you can't make a great film with a weak script. The same goes for bands of any kind be it jazz or rock or any kind. You can't have a great band without a great drummer. A band can get by with an average bassist or guitarist, but not with ...

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News: Recording

Danish Bassist/Composer Torben Westergaard Releases "Tangofied III"

Danish Bassist/Composer Torben Westergaard Releases "Tangofied III"

The creative process leading to a particular product often first reveals itself afterward, i.e. when it has occurred. From the outcome, it all of a sudden becomes clearer in which way causalities led to the result. I had in no way planned that the Tangofied releases should end up as a trilogy. It just happened that ...

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Article: Album Review

JKA Quintet: From the Nocturnal Chironian

Read "From the Nocturnal Chironian" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

A long-lost poem written as a teenager, a series of evocative dreams, and the interpenetration of astrology, Greek mythology and Jungian archetypal psychology form the conceptual framework for From the Nocturnal Chironian by Danish bassist and composer Jens Kristian Andersen. The music on From the Nocturnal Chironian is only one aspect of its physical manifestation. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Radio Bévort: Which Craft?

Read "Which Craft?" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Pernille Bévort, the Danish saxophonist/composer and singer, has been quietly working her musical charms for over twenty years, as both a mainstay of the Danish big-band scene and leader of impressive small ensembles. Following the stripped-down, straight-ahead Trio Temptations (Gateway Music, 2014), Bévort rekindles her Radio Bévort project, whose Perfect Organisation (Gateway 2011)--with bandoneon player Marcello ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Jønsson: Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus

Read "Heart Of Gold: Live In Aarhus" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Recorded live at a living room concert, Heart of Gold presents an intimate portrait of Danish guitarist/composer Alex Jønsson and his trio. The title tune opens the set: it's not the well known Neil Young song, but it does have an Americana tinge. Drummer Andreas Skamby sets up a pillow of sound using mallets, bassist Jens ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Psalms and Poetry: Den Danske Salmeduo and Nicolai Munch-Hansen

Read "Psalms and Poetry: Den Danske Salmeduo and Nicolai Munch-Hansen" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Sometimes, the answer to the quest for an original sound is so obvious that it is overlooked. While many European jazz musicians have tried to imitate the sound of the American jazz scene and the pulse of New York, fewer have tried to reach back into their own musical heritage. Two new Danish jazz releases find ...

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Article: Album Review

Radio Bévort: Which Craft?

Read "Which Craft?" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Music has a strange power to enchant us. In fact, it is unbelievable that vibrations and patterns of sound are able to move our emotions. Danish saxophonist and composer, Pernille Bévort, has captured the mystery of music in the poetically playful title of her latest album Which Craft? It can both be read as a reference ...

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Article: Album Review

Jesper Lundgaard Trio: 2016

Read "2016" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

Danish bassist Jesper Lundgaard likens the making of the latest album with his trio to cooking a successful meal: “Eight new songs, two standards, sax, bass, guitar, three microphones, the recording machine, 12 hours playing, 12 hours mixing, 12 hours design stuff, 12 hours practical stuff, four weeks of waiting, everything stirred thoroughly." ...

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Article: Album Review

US4: My Scandinavian Blues: A Tribute To Horace Parlan

Read "My Scandinavian Blues: A Tribute To Horace Parlan" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

In the year of his birth Horace Parlan suffered an attack of polio that left him with a partially crippled right hand. He developed his own style of playing (involving a percussive left hand) and went on to become one of the most prolific and soulful pianists of the hard bop era. He played for two ...


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