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Mikkel Ploug

Born: May 11, 1978

Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug (b.1978) has performed all over Europe, Brazil and the US with his bands Mikkel Ploug Group, Mikkel Ploug Trio and Equilibrium. He has recorded 12 albums for internationally reknowned labels such as Sunnyside Records (USA), Whirlwind (UK) Fresh Sounds New Talent (ES) Songlines Recordings (CA). Mikkel has performed as a soloist with The Royal Ballet in Copenhagen and works with american choreographer and dancer Tilman O’Donnell.

His solo album Alleviation has over 2 million plays on Spotify and his 2018 album “Faroe” was selected for the Grammy category “Best Instrumental Jazz Album”.

Day in the Sun

By Mikkel Ploug

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nocturne; Daybreak; Over the Hills; Day in the Sun; Rosette; Robledo; April; Dance of Minor Motive; Afterthought; Mosaic; Hymn in E; Barcarola; Nighttide; Isolde’s Song.

April

September 12, 2022

Album: Day in the Sun
By Mikkel Ploug
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Duration: 3:28

January 2022

by Pat Youngspiel
February 2, 2022

Bendik Hofseth Roots C+C records 2022 The second act in the Norwegian saxophonist's Forest tetralogy, Roots focuses around Bendik Hofseth's chamber-jazz qualities in the company of a string quartet plus guitarist Eivind Aarset and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen, who both return for a second time out after 2020's Trunks. ...

Balcony Lullabies

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Det er i dag et vejr (The Weather Today Is); Elefantens vuggevise (Elephant's Lullaby); Vårvise (Spring Ballad); Somewhere Over The Rainbow; Julia; Solen så rød, mor (The Sun Is So Red, Mother); The Nearness Of You; Jeg ved en lærkerede (I Know Of A Lark's Nest); Stille, hjerte, sol går ned (Quiet Heart, Sun Goes Down); Hilsen til forårssolen (Spring Greetings To The Sun); You Are My Sunshine; Du kom med alt det der var dig (You Came With All That Was You); Under stjernerne på himlen (Under The Stars In The Sky).

Mikkel Ploug: Balcony Lullabies

by Dan Bilawsky
October 29, 2020

Upset, isolated and frustrated during the early stages of the near-global COVID-19 quarantine, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug did what he does best; he picked up his instrument and started playing. Sitting on his balcony and reflecting on the moment, Ploug set beauty in strings, allowing his sound to hold aloft. His appreciative neighbors listened with rapt ...

Tim Stine Trio: Fresh Demons

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 7, 2020

There was a time when making progression with jazz guitar meant plugging in. Charlie Christian did this and took jazz guitar playing to a new level. But these days, the most radical thing a jazz guitarist can do is to plug out and play acoustically. While an endless number of electric guitarists explore a rock-oriented approach ...

Mikkel Ploug: Faroe

by Neri Pollastri
June 5, 2019

Il rapporto artistico tra il tenorsassofonista statunitense Mark Turner e il chitarrista danese Mikkel Ploug è piuttosto lungo e consolidato, avendo i due suonato per circa dieci anni nel quartetto messo in piedi da Ploug dopo il suo arrivo in America nel 2005. E proprio l'intesa prodottasi tra i due è stata lo stimolo che ha ...

Faroe

By Mikkel Ploug

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Faroe; Neukölln; The Red Album; Highland; Warmth; Sailing; Ambiguity; Como; Wagner; Steps; Celeste; Safari; Sea Minor.

Roberto "Zizzi" Zanetti, Orrin Evans, and Michael Formanek

by Bob Osborne
November 8, 2018

From Verona, Italy Roberto “Zizzi" Zanetti takes us on a trip through the jazz of the Roaring Twenties paying homage to the music innovators who flourished during the social and political problems of the Prohibition Era. Orrin Evans raises the temperature with live recordings from his large ensemble The Captain Black Big Band and Michael Formanek ...