Results for "Jesper Thorn"

Jesper Thorn

Joel Ross, Jesper Thorn, Naoya Ogura, Alessandro Castriota Scanderbeg & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
April 3, 2026

Episode 123th is a regular edition of the show, though broadcast at an unusual time due to a significant delay. In this episode, we explore January jazz releases from around the world--including the USA, Denmark, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Sweden, and Italy--as well as some rarer international collaborations: Argentine-Swiss, Danish-American, and German-Spanish. Emotional, reflective, lyrical, and at ...

Music For Ukraine

by Ian Patterson
March 29, 2022

Music For Ukraine is a benefit album whose proceeds are intended solely for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This gargantuan compilation features artists from the roster of Finnish label We Jazz Records. The twenty-six tracks--contemporary jazz for the most part, with the odd foray into modern chamber and electronica- tinged experimentalism--amount to two-and-a-half hours of compelling music. ...

Terkel Nørgaard: With Ralph Alessi

by Pat Youngspiel
June 8, 2019

Danish drummer and composer Terkel Nørgaard had American trumpeter Ralph Alessi in mind for this project even while writing and developing the 21 sketches, of which seven ultimately made it onto the rumbling and rolling of positive energy that is the accordingly-titled With Ralph Alessi. The ECM aesthetic, which Ralph Alessi is known for, is omnipresent ...

New Sounds from the Danish Scene: Nina Baun, Henrik Pultz Melbye, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen & Jesper Thorn

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 30, 2016

For such a small country, there is an incredibly amount of diversity on the Danish jazz scene and new names and albums pop up all the time while experiments are made with forms and genres. The following four releases cover everything from diverse singer/songwriter vocal jazz to a modern saxophone trio, grand orchestral jazz and a ...