The group's music is a crystallization of a long-standing collaboration between the three musicians from three different generations. Their sound is positioned somewhere between textural improvisation, expressive free jazz and abstract soul. It is direct and physical music that meets the audience in both challenging and reconciling ways. The trio has developed a personal interplay where inspiration, dynamics and intentions float freely between each other and intertwine, and where the goal is to create space rather than take up space. It is a kind of reconciling blues for the big spectacle.
Veteran Jesper Zeuthen is one of Danish jazz's most distinct and uncompromising alto saxophonists. A saxophonist with his own unique sound and tone, and always in search of a personal expression in music. Jesper Zeuthen emerged in the late 1960s, and has primarily been found on the more boundary-pushing and experimental part of the scene, including in Blue Sun and New Jungle Orchestra....
The group's music is a crystallization of a long-standing collaboration between the three musicians from three different generations. Their sound is positioned somewhere between textural improvisation, expressive free jazz and abstract soul. It is direct and physical music that meets the audience in both challenging and reconciling ways. The trio has developed a personal interplay where inspiration, dynamics and intentions float freely between each other and intertwine, and where the goal is to create space rather than take up space. It is a kind of reconciling blues for the big spectacle.
Veteran Jesper Zeuthen is one of Danish jazz's most distinct and uncompromising alto saxophonists. A saxophonist with his own unique sound and tone, and always in search of a personal expression in music. Jesper Zeuthen emerged in the late 1960s, and has primarily been found on the more boundary-pushing and experimental part of the scene, including in Blue Sun and New Jungle Orchestra. Zeuthen has been involved in many incredible things in his long career, from collaborations with international icons such as Don Cherry, Terry Riley and Paul Motian to live performances on the special train that ran from Copenhagen to Thylejren in the very first days of Thylejren!
Jacob Anderskov is one of the most outstanding pianists in Denmark and has, since his debut in 2001, received a lot of awards for his music. He is a professor at RMC in Copenhagen and has made records with musicians such as Michael Formanek, Chris Speed and Airto Moreira etc.
The youngest of the three, Anders Vestergaard is extremely active on the Danish and European music scene and known for his personal touch on the drums. He is part of the acclaimed groups Girls in Airports, Yes Deer and Boujeloud and has played with Evan Parker, Thomas Morgan etc.
The ensemble has been gaining momentum recently and has received glowing reviews, including in the world's leading jazz magazine, Down Beat. “Out of the Spectacle” won a Danish Music Awards Jazz for best special release in 2019....
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