Felix Moseholm, Jacob Artved & Zier Romme, part of a new and very exciting generation of jazz musicians in Denmark, have played together for many years and have developed a great friendship and understanding through music.
Despite their young age they have already been traveling and playing with some of todays biggest names in jazz such as Brad Mehldau, Louis Hayes, Alvin Queen, Billy Hart, Jorgy Rossy, Alex Riel to name a few and now they have established this new group with one of the absolut greats and a pioneer of this art form, drummer Victor Lewis.

Victor Lewis
Internationally acclaimed drummer and composer Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska.

As a young man he left Nebraska to go to Minneapolis with a cabaret show to earn enough money to move to New York. A year later, on September 16, 1974, he arrived in the jazz capital of the world.

On Victor’s first gig in Manhattan, a night at Boomer’s...

Felix Moseholm, Jacob Artved & Zier Romme, part of a new and very exciting generation of jazz musicians in Denmark, have played together for many years and have developed a great friendship and understanding through music.
Despite their young age they have already been traveling and playing with some of todays biggest names in jazz such as Brad Mehldau, Louis Hayes, Alvin Queen, Billy Hart, Jorgy Rossy, Alex Riel to name a few and now they have established this new group with one of the absolut greats and a pioneer of this art form, drummer Victor Lewis.

Victor Lewis
Internationally acclaimed drummer and composer Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska.

As a young man he left Nebraska to go to Minneapolis with a cabaret show to earn enough money to move to New York. A year later, on September 16, 1974, he arrived in the jazz capital of the world.

On Victor’s first gig in Manhattan, a night at Boomer’s with bassist Buster Williams’ group, he met trumpeter Woody Shaw. Lewis joined the trumpeter’s band and a few months later, he made his recording debut on Shaw’s classic, The Moontrane. The drummer also began making his mark on the burgeoning fusion and pop jazz scenes, providing the beat on records by Joe Farrell, Earl Klugh, Hubert Laws, Carla Bley and David Sanborn.

In 1980, Victor left Shaw’s group to join another tenor giant, Stan Getz, beginning an association that would last up until the saxophonist’s death in 1991.

When he’s home in New York, Victor can most often be found in the city’s recording studios. In addition to the many jazz dates he’s recorded with people like Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Janis Siegel, Larry Willis, John Hicks and Abbey Lincoln.

On December 8, 2016, Victor was awarded an honorary doctoral degree - “Doctor of Fine Arts” - by the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL)....

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