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Mikkel Ploug

Born: May 11, 1978

Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug has performed all over Europe with his group “Mikkel Ploug Group feat. Mark Turner” and PlougPettersenBadenhorst trio. He has recorded two albums for Spanish label “Fresh Sounds New Talent” and appeared as an opening act for Wayne Shorter. He writes music for Mikkel Ploug Group, Sissel Vera Pettersen-Mikkel Ploug-Joachim Badenhorst Trio and Mikkel Ploug Trio and is currently living partly in Copenhagen and partly in Berlin. He works as a sideman with Pete Robbins. Mikkel received his master from the royal conservatory of the hague in 2005 and was awarded a distinction for his original compositions

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 ...

Mark Turner, Pipe Dream and other great new releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 18, 2018

The summer is winding down and the pace at which new albums are being released is picking up. Given the quality of what is coming our way, we duly oblige.Enjoy two hours of gorgeous new music, including some unexpected gems from the European jazz scene like the Austrian ensemble Little Rosies Kindergarten and the ...

Mikkel Ploug & Mark Turner: Faroe

by Dan Bilawsky
August 15, 2018

While tenor saxophone heavy Mark Turner has toured with guitarist Mikkel Ploug's quartet for approximately a decade, the unique musical alliance developed between this pair has never before received such a high degree of attention. With Faroe, Ploug presents thirteen original compositions written or rearranged specifically to telescope their bond(s), explore the very essence of the ...

Alleviation

By Mikkel Ploug

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Night Space; Florescence; With Open Arms; Arabesque; Circle WInd; Einer; Coulers D' Olivier; Safari; Grundtvig Reflections; Luminous; Alleviation; Overseas; Road Trip.