30/07/2013

Stella Polaris; The Nine Muses and all the cities.


Celebrating 

Stella Polaris 

summer vibes


It's august and it looks like being the hottest summer in years. The city is melting and we are getting ready for the annual Stella Polaris weekend. Only this august, it will 2 weekends. 

And FREE ENTRY as always.



Starting this weekend in Aalborg. The northern parts of Denmark. In the old proud habour city with the fjord, seaside close to city centre. Friday 2 August. Will be playing in the Kildeparken starting easy friday afternoon.
Then off to our hometown Aarhus, where it all started back then. Saturday afternoon the Botanical Garden in Aarhus. Packed with 25.000 chillin´in the grass. H.C Andersen would have been down this Sunday the 04 August in Ansgar Anlæg in his hometown Odense.
Then Esbjerg, the most west we have ever been in Denmark. The first time. We embrace Esbjerg on the 10th August and will be looking forward seeing you. ”Grande Finale” will be Copenhagen enjoyed in front of 25.000 or more at the new space in Frederiksberg Garden. Yes, Stella moved from Østre Anlæg close to the National Gallery and now re-sited to Frederiksberg Garden.Check it here, its an awesome park.
Frederiksberg Have 


The Nine Muses” will be the annual soundtrack. Relased on the 02 Aug. 2013 feat. 14 tracks. 3 already introduced here:


Will be looking forward being part of it all agin this year.
Follow Stella Polaris here and get daily updated on the event and the music here. Musical contributions form djs + artitist this year are:



Leftfield – DJ set
Yoav
Rob Da Bank
Nick Warren
Lulu Rouge
Indians
Pete Gooding
Mads Langer
Mads Bjørn
DJ Static
Aebeloe
App
+ More

Get the full update and news here



See you soon out there. Will be great traveling around Denmark with you





10/07/2013

11. Juli udgiver Carsten Dahl Experience album "Reveréntia" + liveoptagelse med DR


11. Juli spiller Carsten Dahl Experience deres første koncert med nyt materiale fra deres nye album ”Reveréntia”. Albummet er optaget i legendariske Rainbow Studio i Oslo og produceret af Jan Erik Kongshaug.

Koncerten finder sted på Krudttønden i København under Copenhagen Jazz Festival og bliver desuden optaget live af DR – K til udsendelse i løbet af efteråret 2013.

Line-up:
Carsten Dahl (pi)
Jesper Zeuthen (sax)
Stefan Pasborg (dr)
Nils ”Bosse” Davidsen (bas)

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Hvor + hvornår:
Krudttønden
Serridslevvej 2
2100 København
Kl. 20.00 

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Mere info  her samt:




09/07/2013

Nu bliver det sjovt på Copenhagen Jazz Festival: Hess Is More


Hess Is More 

Copenhagen Jazzfestival Marathon
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Vind FRI BAR + GRATIS BILLETTER



Hess Is More fejrer Københavns Jazzfestival samt nært forestående 10 års jubilæum med denne marathon koncertrække på CafeTeatret's intimscene Kafcafeen. 
5 koncerter på en dag: Kl 15, 17, 19, 21, 23



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Mikkel Hess 
(Integrationsminister i Hess Is More):

"Jeg glæder mig noget så grundigt til at spille 5 koncerter med disse fantastiske musikere. Michael Hanf og Rasmus Bille Bahncke kommer endda rejsende fra New York bare for denne weekend - de kan heller ikke dy sig". 

"Når man er turne med et band sker der tit nogle vilde ting med sammenspillet. Nu har vi så komprimeret en uges turne til en enkelt dags koncert marathon. 
Selv hvis vi tager præcis det samme repertoire 5 gange i træk kan jeg godt garantere at der ikke bliver to identiske koncerter. Vi skal rundt i krogene og vi skal opleve noget nyt".  

"Hvis du kan finde et andet band der spiller 5 koncerter lørdag d. 13 juli noget sted i verden får du 2 turpas til vores marathon inkl fri bar hele dagen". 

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Konkurrence: 
De første 3 der sender en mail med oplysninger om et andet band der spiller 5 koncerter d. 13 juli får 2 turpas til Hess Is More koncert marathon inkl fri bar. 


Hess Is More - LIVE:
Michael Hanf - Vibrafon
Jeppe Skjold - Horn & keys
Claus Højensgård - Horn & Keys
Oliver Hoiness / Rasmus Vestervig - Guitar
Anders Provis / Henrik Vibskov - Elektriske trommer
Rasmus Bille Bahncke - SH101 Keytar
Nikolaj Hess - Rhodes
Mikkel Hess - Trommer, Vokal og mere ?
+ Special guests i løbet af dagen....


Hvor + Hvornår:
Copenhagen Jazzfestival Marathon
Lørdag d. 13 Juli kl 15, 17, 19, 21 & 23
CafeTeatret, Skindergade 3, 1159 Kbh.K.

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Billetter: 

Hess Is More : 2 numre gratis download : Live fra Skuespilhuset: 

Hess Is More : Live Video : Would Would You Like to Disco ?

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04/07/2013

Focus on: Samuel Blaser Trio feat. Marc Ducret & Peter Bruun


Samuel Blaser Trio feat.
Marc Ducret (gu)
Peter Bruun (dr)

Samuel Blaser Trio in the SRF Studio during recording session 
Finally live and kicking. Swiss tromboneplayer Samuel Blaser's new trio feat. French guitarist Marc Ducret and Danish drummer Peter Bruun (known also from Django Bartes Beloved Trio) has recently premiered live. At the Jazzdor Festival in Berlin as well as some selected dates in Europe. Henning Bolte  from All About Jazz wrote about the show:

Trombonist Samuel Blaser, guitarist Marc Ducret and drummer Peter Bruun provided a clear contrast. Their first public performance showed three amazing musicians in a cutting-edge appearance with every moment full of dense and colorful sound, seizing music and relentless surprise

Read more about the Trio concert and the Jazzdor Festival in Berlin here. 

They finished the tour with studio recordings at the SRF Studio in Zurich. The album is scheduled for next year via Hat Hut recordings. Follow the trio here.




The trio is scheduled for European dates and currently the schedule looks like this:

24.10 Basel, Switzerland
25.10 Umea, Sweden 
26.10 TBC
27.10 Bruxelles, Belgium
28.10 TBC
29.10 Newcastle, UK - TBC
30.10 Innsbruck, Austria
31.10 Lausanne, Switzerland
01.10 Dusseldorf, Germany
02.10 Heilbronn, Germany - TBC
03.10 Karlsruhe, Germany
04.10 TBC
05.10 TBC
06.10 TBC
07.10 TBC


Equilibrium - THIRD REEL - Han Bennink Trio: More great Jazz bands to look forward to enjoy 2013 & 14



Equilibrium

Han Bennink Trio

THIRD REEL

joining us here at PG



3 european jazz bands here at PG Special Agent. All of them with unique style, story and history.Their music is as inspirational  
as it is full of vitality.

Here you will find a short introduction to them. Tracks, biographical details, confirmed gigs + much more. Enjoy their world of music, and please do get in touch for any further info or booking request. A full list of for 2014 artists will soon be updated here on the site.

Equilibrium 
Feat. Mikkel Ploug, Joachim Badenhorst, Sissel Vera Pettersen.


Booking period: oct.nov 2014

 Autumn tour in connection to album release via Songlines Recordings.

Territory:
Scandinavia exclusive except Denmark
Rest of the world non exclusive


With roots both in the Scandinavian and the european jazzscene, Equilibrium is a marvelous trio feat. Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Belgian reed player Joachim badenhorst and singer/ keys is the amazing Sissel Vera Pettersen from Norway.

Equilibrium synthesise elements of jazz, folk/world, classical, minimalism and the avant-garde in a mixture of free improvisation and original compositions.The group has received critical acclaim from all over the world for the two studio albums ”Equilibrium” and ”Walking Voices” both out on Canadian label Songlines Recordings. The trio is made up of Norwegian vocalist/saxophonist Sissel Vera Pettersen who has worked with the likes of: Chick Corea, Marylin Mazur, Marc Ducret. Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, known for his work with saxophonists Mark Turner and Loren Stillman. Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst who plays with the Han Bennik trio and with Tony Malaby’s Novola, and on Downbeats HOT LIST 2013 

They are currently working on a new album due to release in 2014 via Songlines Recordings.

“…you can get a feeling of elevation, maybe even levitation. It’s that stunning…my favorite record of the year so far.” – Mark
Saleski, Jazz.com
Top 10 jazzalbum of the year 2009” The Epoch Times (NYC/World Wide)
Top 10 jazzalbum of the year 2009” Jazznyt - DK
Best albums of 2011” Jazzwrap
Additional links


Han Bennink Trio
Feat. Han Bennink, Joachim Badenhorst, Simon Toldam
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Booking period:
2014: 15 april – 15 may+ upon request

Territory:
Scandinavia Exclusive + non exclusive rest of the world.

Han Bennink was recently awarded The Skoda Jazz Award at Jazz Ahead. The 4th artist to be awarded the honour. For decades now Han Bennink has drummed himself through all jazz styles with esprit and humour.

Han Bennink is one of the most individual and stylistically open personalities of jazz of the past 40 years, a humoristic and vivid synthesis of the arts.” jazzahead!’s artistic directors Peter Schulze and Uli Beckerhoff agree.

Together with Danish pianist Simon Toldam and, yes again Joachim Badenhorst on reed, they have started this exciting trio. In the summer of 2008 Han formed the first band carrying his own name; Han Bennink Trio with Joachim Badenhorst and Simon Toldam. The trio has since its birth performed several very succesfull concerts across Europe and released their debut-album PARKEN in 2009. An album that has become one of Ilk Music absolute bestsellers. In 2012 their 2nd release ”Bennink & Co” also on Ilk Music.

The music has a very broad spectre of qualities and ranges from regular songs to taking off in adventurous abstract improvisations. The space between these extremities, is where Han Bennink Trio finds the joy of playing music.

Limits in jazz do not exist for 70 year old Han Bennink and that’s mainly the reason why he has played with the world’s giants, everywhere across the globe. Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor – to name a few – and not the least the collaboration through 50 years with fellow dutch free spirit Misha Mengelberg.
Now Bennink has found two young musicians who share the same free spirit:

Joachim Badenhorst (b.1981) is impressive in his versatility: he knows a wide variety of the jazz history; ranging from the Ellington horn section to as far as free jazz exponents such as Evan Parker. And on top of all he has a strikingly beautiful tone on both clarinet and bassclarinet.
He has received several prices in Belgium, and moved recently to NY on a 3 years artist-visa.

Simon Toldam (b.1979) is the one who sends the music in different directions with his witty interventions. He is a controlled player, who adds sublte sound-colors and restricts his playing to what the composition really needs. Sometimes a chord or a few solitary notes, on other moments using thick, dark clusters. He is an empathic player who reacts freely and originally to his fellow musicians.He has received 4 grammies in Denmark.


THIRD REEL
feat. Roberto Pianca, Nicolas Masson,Emanuele Maniscalco.

Booking period:
2013: November

Confirmed gigs:

July 9th / Goethe-institut, Portugal

July 27 Clusone Jaz, Italy

Aug. 29 Jazz Festival Willisau, Switzerland

Nov. 29  Unterfahrt, Germany


2014: TBC

Territory: The World exclusive

THIRD REEL is a mutual collaboration between guitarist Roberto Pianca, saxophonist Nicolas Masson and drummer Emanuele Maniscalco.

Released the highly acclaimed debut album on ECM Recordings in early 2013.


I got into this band via drummer Emanuele Maniscalco. He recently moved here to Copenhagen to finish his degree in Music. His solo projects and earlier various groups attached and moved me, and I think that this young trio has much to give and surprise you with for the future.


Each band member brings own compositions, always conceived as material for multiple, unpredictable developments, and with individual stylistic connotations: the music of Roberto is, in fact, minimal, based on a delicate and introverted kind of “tone vs harmony” approach; Nicolas uses more rhythmic parameters, while Emanuele melodic ones. The contemporary jazz lesson (from Brooklyn to northern Europe)  finds in this ensemble its personal response, unitary and aware of its influences and references. There is no need to impress audiences, but over time, the need of waiting for the ideal sound for every moment explored. The search for wonder without any fixed pattern manifests itself in depth. 

Recent Reviews:
Le Courrier, Switzerland
All About Jazz, USA 

Jazz Camera, UK