Press release, Sunday July 14 After 10 days of musical celebration at more than 120 venues across the entire capital, Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2019 comes to an end on Sunday night. Showcasing the sound of artists inhabiting the future of jazz while maintaining a solid foundation in the city’s diverse locales has been but one of this year’s succesful […]

This year’s Copenhagen Jazz Festival was filled to the brim with unforgettable experiences. Our photographers Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Bobby Anwar and Jacob Crawfurd were on the spot to document the greatest moments with international headliners like Gilberto Gil, Oumou Sangaré, José James, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Hot 8 Brass Band as […]

Award-winning photographer Gorm Valentin is a living legend and an integral part of the Copenhagen jazz scene – always on the spot at the right time. As a fledgling jazz musician on a pilgrimage to New Orleans in 1969 he found his interest in photography fully aflame, leading him to buy his first camera – […]

The official printed guide for Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2019 is out now as part of Copenhagen Post – Denmark’s only English-language newspaper. The programme consists of 32 pages of recommendations, venues guides, concert highlights and a map covering all participating venues. The International Guide is produced by Copenhagen Jazz Festival and brought to you by Copenhagen […]

Copenhagen Jazz Festival celebrated its 40th edition a year ago, partly marked by the release of “Fyrre kunstplakater, én jazzfestival” – the first book to deliver a comprehensive look at the festival’s proud poster tradition, its many associated artists and their visual interpretations of jazz as a means of expression, and the festival as a […]

With lightness of touch and painterly dexterity, John Kørner explores his medium’s fundamental duality – its physical presence and its descriptive powers – and the potential for communication or miscommunication that ensues. Kørner has referred to his apparently cheerful paintings as ‘Problems’. The viewer is often presented with non-figurative forms including multicoloured ovals and dancing […]

Cory Henry and his merry band of Funk Apostles are the final addition on the line-up for the recurring open air concert series, Jazz by the Sea. This completes a star-studded schedule of nine concerts for the picturesque setting at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge during Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2019 Raised on American soul jazz, funk and […]

The concert theme Future Sound of Jazz, which has been a part of Copenhagen Jazz Festival since 1996, is the sound of modern jazz in an updated edition, inspired by DIY-methods and fused with hip hop, soul, dub, world music and electronic subgenres. Future Sound of Jazz is the sound of tomorrow At Copenhagen Jazz […]

The Austrian pioneers Kruder & Dorfmeister celebrated their first 25 years at the very top of international electronic music in 2018. Take a trip through the duo’s mind-expanding universe at Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2019 with their audiovisual anniversary show in DR Koncerthuset 25 years after their debut release, “G-Stoned” – the classic first EP, which […]

During this year’s Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Hess Is More explores the boundaries of the concert format in an open laboratorie series. Every day during the festival the band performs a unique concert under the influence of theatre director Tue Biering, stage designer Christian Friedländer and designer Henrik Vibskov. The concerts are set apart with themes […]