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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013
by Henning Bolte
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013Copenhagen, 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, Chick ...
Valby Summer Jazz: Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-13, 2013
by Jakob Baekgaard
Valby Summer JazzPrøvehallen in Valby and The Betty Nansen TheatreCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 6-13, 2013 In a time of financial crisis, the solution to many festivals seems to be to cut down on the experimental budget and ambitions and focus on familiar names that are sure to attract a sizeable audience. While Valby ...
Jacob Anderskov: Granular Alchemy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il giovane pianista e compositore danese Jacob Anderskov è qui alla testa di un lussureggiante quartetto per il resto tutto a stelle e strisce, con Chris Speed, Michael Formanek e Gerald Cleaver, che nell'iniziale “Sediments" ci propone un jazz avanzato, piuttosto diretto, leggibile, ma al tempo stesso elegante, pur con qualche tramatura intestina più increspata e ...
Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Jon Christensen: Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8, 2012
by Henning Bolte
Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Jon ChristensenHofteatretCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 8, 2012The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with its more than 1,000 concerts in 10 days spread over more than 100 venues and stages in all parts of the Danish capital is like a musical monsoon cloudburst. The concerts range from big international stars ...
Kevin Brow: Dolls & Guns
by Mark F. Turner
Drummer/composer Kevin Brow is a forward thinker, his compositional acuity and scintillating technique in clear evidence on his debut and sophomore releases--Kopter (2008) and Fire Sink (2011), both on Fresh Sound New Talent--modern works as intellectual as they are risk taking. If these weren't persuasive enough, then Dolls and Guns nails the point home all the ...
Koptor: Fire Sink
by Jerry D'Souza
Time and space have shaped the life of Kevin Brow. The Canadian-born drummer moved to Toronto when he was 19, and went on to play with some of the best jazz musicians including Mike Murley, Pat LaBarbera and David Braid. Six years later he moved to Copenhagen. This was significant in more ways than one: he ...
Thommy Andersson/Peter Nilsson/Jacob Anderskov: Triofolded
by Eyal Hareuveni
This masterful recording by Swedish-born, Denmark-resident bassist Thommy Andersson and Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov, plus Swedish drummer Peter Nilsson--each of them a leader in his own right--presents a Nordic interpretation of free improvised music. The focus of the trio is not on energetic, dense and fiery playing but on the intensity of responsive and patient interplay, ...
Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass
by Nic Jones
The reeds-piano duo is hardly overdone within the recorded canon, but then neither has it been as rare or unusual as some lineups. This particular duo is apparently not unaware of this, and there's a personality to its work that's entirely its own.There's a little of Anthony Braxton about Frank Gratkowski's alto sax playing ...
