"The mastery of Mommaas and Hess completely overwhelms any feeling of normal. This is art of the highest standard, and a record which will most definitely be a "best of.” (Allaboutjazz)
Nikolaj Hess's collaboration with New York-based American/Dutch saxophonist Marc Mommaas dates back to 1998 and has resulted in a number of international releases and tours in the US, Spain, Holland and Scandinavia. Their latest release is the album Ballads Standards on Sunnyside Records (US), where Hess and Mommaas play creative adaptations of carefully selected standard ballads with angles, elements and ideas from their free improvisation practice and original compositions.
For this early Saturday afternoon concert, Hess and Mommaas will explore a series of jazz classics mixed with free improvised passages in a collective reflection on their many shared creative meeting points. Melodic, harmonic, rhythmic interactive flow and musical communication at the highest level.

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"The mastery of Mommaas and Hess completely overwhelms any feeling of normal. This is art of the highest standard, and a record which will most definitely be a "best of.” (Allaboutjazz)
Nikolaj Hess's collaboration with New York-based American/Dutch saxophonist Marc Mommaas dates back to 1998 and has resulted in a number of international releases and tours in the US, Spain, Holland and Scandinavia. Their latest release is the album Ballads Standards on Sunnyside Records (US), where Hess and Mommaas play creative adaptations of carefully selected standard ballads with angles, elements and ideas from their free improvisation practice and original compositions.
For this early Saturday afternoon concert, Hess and Mommaas will explore a series of jazz classics mixed with free improvised passages in a collective reflection on their many shared creative meeting points. Melodic, harmonic, rhythmic interactive flow and musical communication at the highest level.

You will experience the Nordic universe combined with the international jazz tradition and a sublime interplay and sense of sound and atmosphere, with playful and listening undertones and overtones, combined with melodic nerve and expressivity. Singing melody lines, hypnotic grooves and swing, cinematic soundscapes and evocative ballads.
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