21/10/2010

Jakob Bro, Sinne Eeg and Nikolaj Hess nominated for Danish Music Awards 2010

Attention of this kind is allways nice to read about.  And it makes me proud to work with such fine talent. 
Among the artist that I am currently working with, 3 of them have been nominated for the annual Danish Music AwardsIn the catogry "Best Jazz Release"  both Nikolaj Hess and Jakob Bro have been nominated. 



Jakob Bro "Balladeering"   listen                                                       


Nikolaj Hess "Global Motion"  listen






In the category "Best Vocal Jazz"

       Sinne Eeg "Don't Be so Blue" Listen


Nikolaj Hess is also nominated in this category due to his collaboration with Sissel Vera Pettersen and the album "A Word"  listen

                                          

You can see al nominated acts here: Gaffa.On the 14 november we will know much more.. Congratulations to all of you , and thanks for the music.

06/10/2010

Nikolaj Hess and Global Motion ready for US + Canada tour 2011

Nikolaj Hess is a rare jazz talent. I cant wait to introduce him to you... We are preparing some live shows for US + Canada in 2011. For this I have collected some tracks from various releases, so you can get a feeling with the Hess talent. There are outtakes from His Global Motion project which will be touring in 2011 in the US. 




The linup for Global Motion - live in 2011 will be with Marc Mommaas on sax, Jay Anderson on bass, Tony Moreno on drums and Nikolaj on the piano.
Listen here to tracks from both his Global Motion, Nikolaj Hess Trio as well as his hammond inferno with Spacelab. 



01/10/2010

Jazz singer Sinne Eeg getting ready for USA + Canada jazz festivals 2011

Sinne Eeg is a jazzsinger from Denmark. She has done 5 albums since 2003, and is considered one of the most important jazzsingers right now here in Scandinavia. I am really proud to work for here in collaboration with her management IN Music. 




Our aim is to produce a live tour with a strong line-up of us jazz cats. It will be with George Colligan (pi), Joshua Ginsburg (bs) and EJ Strickland(dr).  Here is a link for her performance at the Black Diamond last year here in Copenhagen


Sinne Eeg performing "Writing on the Wall"