Results for "Jasper Høiby"

Amersfoort World Jazz Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
November 11, 2021

Amersfoort World Jazz Festival Amersfoort, Netherlands August 9-15, 2021 As with so many festivals during the last 18 months, the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival was forced to concentrate on local talent. Although steering away from big name international visitors, this summer edition offered a prime opportunity to familiarise our ears ...

Slowly Rolling Camera: Where the Streets Lead

by Geannine Reid
October 30, 2021

Slowly Rolling Camera is a jazz ensemble. Its core is pianist-composer Dave Stapleton, producer Deri Roberts, vocalist-lyricist Dionne Bennett, and drummer Elliot Bennett. Their newest album Where the Streets Lead is a follow-up to their acclaimed album, Juniper (Edition Records, 2018). The album presents eight tracks with a large ensemble, including an 8-piece string section and ...

Gent Jazz 2021

by Martin Longley
August 9, 2021

Gent Jazz Bijloke, Gent Belgium July 12-18 2021 Last year, the Gent Jazz festival operated with a 400-person audience capacity, and presented a very successful 10-day season, albeit highlighting Belgian acts, and with no lumbering large-fee, big-ticket-sales American bands allowed. The 2021 edition still wasn't able ...

Slowly Rolling Camera: Where the Streets Lead

by Chris May
July 21, 2021

You might imagine jazz musicians are well suited to run record companies, for risk taking and creativity are fundamental to both activities. Mostly, however, musician-led labels have unhappy histories. Either the musician is not from the top drawer and their A&R skills suffer accordingly; or they lack the administrative skills to run a business enterprise effectively. ...

Jasper Høiby

Danish double bassist, composer, and bandleader Jasper Høiby has established himself as one of the most dynamic and expressive forces in modern European jazz. Born in Copenhagen on May 10, 1977, Høiby was drawn to rhythm early in life, listening to hip-hop as a pre-teen before picking up the bass at age fourteen. After laying his musical foundations in Denmark, he moved to the United Kingdom in 2000 to attend London's Royal Academy of Music. During his studies, he immersed himself in the city's fertile jazz scene and became an active member of the influential, artist-led Loop Collective, forging connections that would shape his artistic path for decades to come.

Phronesis Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
May 24, 2019

This energetic formation from London gives a futuristic twist to the jazz formula of piano, bass and drums. 'A killer live band' (The Guardian). Everything and everyone in the universe is interconnected: this is what Phronesis want to communicate with the album We Are All, the current highlight of their oeuvre according to de ...

Malija - Mark Lockheart Jasper Høiby Liam Noble: Instinct

by Roger Farbey
August 12, 2017

This is Malija's successor to their 2015 debut album The Day I Had Everything. The trio first played together on Mark Lockheart's album but that was in a quintet configuration with trumpet and drums. The three protagonists in this affair are now very well-known on the European jazz scene. Mark Lockheart, an alumnus of Loose Tubes, ...

Phronesis; Julian Argüelles; Frankfurt Radio Big Band: The Behemoth

by Roger Farbey
March 11, 2017

Julian Argüelles needs no lessons on how to arrange for a big band since cutting his teeth with the 1980s jazz phenomenon Loose Tubes, later joining Chris McGregor's legendary Brotherhood Of Breath. He also has recorded over a dozen albums under his name and subsequently leading several line-ups including his latest quartet Tetra. This is the ...

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures

by Phil Barnes
August 21, 2016

Creativity is an unpredictable beast, yesterday's inspiration can soon turn stale, evaporating with the morning dew if not carefully cultivated and attended to. That idea that was once so exciting can easily become a well-worn rut, or even a trap, into which the unwary can fall. Bassist Jasper Hoiby, a third of Phronesis, appears to recognise ...

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures

by Roger Farbey
June 25, 2016

Taking a break from his highly (and justifiably) praised trio Phronesis, virtuoso bassist Jasper Høiby described the rationale for Fellow Creatures thus: “it's been a dream of mine for a while to start a larger ensemble and to have the option of writing for two melody instruments as well as the trio." Høiby also ...