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Whitney James: The Nature of Love
by Jakob Baekgaard
Taking the step into professional jazz singing can be a test, but the challenge is gracefully overcome in this debut, The Nature of Love, by the young female singer Whitney James. In fact, it is hard to believe that this is James' first recording. The sculpted lines of her sensual, smoky voice could be mistaken for ...
Subway Moon
by Jakob Baekgaard
Subway Moon Roy Nathanson Soft cover; 134 pages ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8 Buddy's Knife 2009 Poetry, like music, is about movement. Both art forms move from one note, or word, to another, trying to catch the essence of the moment. Saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson has long worked ...
Who Owns Music?
by Jakob Baekgaard
Who Owns Music? William Parker Soft cover; 140 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020141-7 Buddy's Knife 2007 Spirituality runs deep in the music and thinking of bassist William Parker. Those who have looked at the sleeves of his albums will have noticed that he not only expresses his philosophy ...
Flux: Peninsulator
by Jakob Baekgaard
Uniting musicians from several parts of Europe, Copenhagen-based band Flux has the kind of restless cosmopolitan energy that its name seems to suggest. On Peninsulator the group plays its very own brand of postmodern jazz, referencing a wealth of styles from post-bop to classical, rock, and world music, while still being able to forge its own ...
Torben Waldorff: American Rock Beauty
by Jakob Baekgaard
A record's title can be useful in giving a hint of the kind of music that can be found on the album. In the case of guitarist Torben Waldorff, American Rock Beauty reveals itself as a title that brings forth an entire musical poetic conversation. If the album is like a river flowing ...
Indra: Indra
by Jakob Baekgaard
Thanks to the unpredictable ways of life, Indra Rios-Moore, a female jazz singer from Manhattan, has ended up in Denmark where she now lives with her husband whom she met in New York in the spring of 2006. The reason for the move was love, but in the case of Indra, love and ...
Jesper Bodilsen: Short Stories For Dreamers
by Jakob Baekgaard
One of the major musical events of 2009 was the international breakthrough of Italian pianist Stefano Bollani's Danish trio with bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund. The release of Stone in the Water (ECM, 2009) underlined Bodilsen's unlimited potential, who not only played meticulously, but also contributed two of the album's most beautiful compositions, “Orvieto" ...
Jayna Nelson: Bloom of Creation
by Jakob Baekgaard
While it is often recognized that music is a matter of both the head and the heart, few artists have taken the statement as literally as the flutist Jayna Nelson. Before the recording of a concert at the legendary Knitting Factory, she instructed her fellow players by handing out copies of a diagram showing the brain's ...
Soren Bebe Trio: From Out Here
by Jakob Baekgaard
Like the derelict buildings that are placed in the background on the cover of From Out Here, Danish pianist Søren Bebe's music carries the timely imprint of a melancholy longing that arises from neglect and the sense of a void that can't be filled. But it is also imbued with sweetness and nostalgia, another aspect of ...
Scott Hamilton: Live at Nefertiti
by Jakob Baekgaard
Jazz isn't always about breaking new ground in terms of sound and genre. It's just as important to preserve the music of the masters, and nobody carries the torch of tradition more elegantly than tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. His heroes include Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young--in short, the founding fathers of swing saxophone playing. ...
