Johannes Gammelgaard is a Danish saxophonist and composer based in Stockholm, where he leads his own quartet. For this concert, he has handpicked three prominent musicians from the Scandinavian jazz scene, who will perform numbers from the quartet's debut album I venners lag (Jaeger Community Music, 2021) as well as completely newly written music. As a special guest, they have invited Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen, Gammelgaard's former teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and a personal role model for many years.
The music sounds like a mixture of 1960s jazz and Scandinavian music tradition, played with lots of energy, swing and humour. Melodic compositions are replaced by freely improvised passages, and all in all, the music contains a wide spectrum of moods from childlike joy to brooding melancholy.
In April 2021, Johannes Gammelgaard Kvartett's debut album I venners lag was released on the Aarhusian record company Jaeger Community Music. The record has garne...

Johannes Gammelgaard is a Danish saxophonist and composer based in Stockholm, where he leads his own quartet. For this concert, he has handpicked three prominent musicians from the Scandinavian jazz scene, who will perform numbers from the quartet's debut album I venners lag (Jaeger Community Music, 2021) as well as completely newly written music. As a special guest, they have invited Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen, Gammelgaard's former teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and a personal role model for many years.
The music sounds like a mixture of 1960s jazz and Scandinavian music tradition, played with lots of energy, swing and humour. Melodic compositions are replaced by freely improvised passages, and all in all, the music contains a wide spectrum of moods from childlike joy to brooding melancholy.
In April 2021, Johannes Gammelgaard Kvartett's debut album I venners lag was released on the Aarhusian record company Jaeger Community Music. The record has garnered praise from reviewers both at home and abroad (see below) and has been played on the radio in both Denmark and Poland. The cover of the record is adorned by Asger Jorn's painting Midsummer Games, which complements the music in the best way....

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