Yellow Map is a unique, heartfelt band featuring Lis Wessberg’s distinctive trombone voice merged with various electronic sounds.
The music is a mellifluous melding of the acoustic instrument with electronic sounds, where light and darkness, sincerity and excitement, and joy and reflection unfold. The music has a contemporary, almost cinematic, feel, quite unlike any other music project emanating from Denmark.
Danish trombonist Lis Wessberg has performed as a side(wo)man with many top Danish and international musicians on the jazz and pop scene. She is now releasing Yellow Map, her debut project as a leader. She brought on board some of the top Danish jazz players for this recording, including pianist Steen Rasmussen, bassist Lennart Ginman, and drummer Jeppe Gram. Marilyn Mazur also appears on the track “Sister M.” Yellow Map features all new compositions penned by Wessberg specifically for the musicians who comprise this band.

Lis Wessberg has perfo...

Yellow Map is a unique, heartfelt band featuring Lis Wessberg’s distinctive trombone voice merged with various electronic sounds.
The music is a mellifluous melding of the acoustic instrument with electronic sounds, where light and darkness, sincerity and excitement, and joy and reflection unfold. The music has a contemporary, almost cinematic, feel, quite unlike any other music project emanating from Denmark.
Danish trombonist Lis Wessberg has performed as a side(wo)man with many top Danish and international musicians on the jazz and pop scene. She is now releasing Yellow Map, her debut project as a leader. She brought on board some of the top Danish jazz players for this recording, including pianist Steen Rasmussen, bassist Lennart Ginman, and drummer Jeppe Gram. Marilyn Mazur also appears on the track “Sister M.” Yellow Map features all new compositions penned by Wessberg specifically for the musicians who comprise this band.

Lis Wessberg has performed on more than 45 albums. She has also toured extensively in both Denmark and abroad, often at big festivals, sharing the stage with some of biggest stars in the music firmament, like Paulo Braga, Joyce Moreno, Kid Creole & The Coconuts and Randy Brecker, to name just a few.

Lis Wessberg’s influences are Miles Davis, David Bowie, Lee Konitz, Joe Zawinul, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, and Mark Hollis of Talk Talk.
Lis Wessberg and Yellow Map has released an album on April Records, October 2021 and can be found on CD and vinyl, as well as on streaming services.

The press wrote:

UKVibe februar 2022
“Yellow Map’ certainly comes with a weight of expectation attached to it but for a piece of art that is the result of years of varying influences and experiences, countless performances and collaborations, it is the perfect testament to the glittering career that has come before it. Making up the members of Wessberg’s quartet are pianist Steen Rasmussen, drummer Jeppe Gram and bassist Lennart Ginman who help to realise Wessberg’s incredible vision for this album over the course of nine exquisite and original compositions”

Jazznyt, December 2021
“Yellow Map is one of this year's major Danish jazz releases - and gets a huge recommendation from here”

GAFFA, november 2021
“Yellow Map is one of this year's major Danish jazz releases - and gets a huge recommendation from here”

Jazzspecial, november 2021
“Yellow Map belongs in the field of this year's biggest jazz releases”...

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