At Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2026, trumpeter Kasper Tranberg and pianist Søren Kjærgaard appear in duo at 5E.

Over the years, the two improvising musicians have collaborated in countless settings — from Frands Rifbjerg’s award-winning quartet to constellations with musicians such as Kresten Osgood and T. S. Høeg. In the duo format, their long-standing musical relationship unfolds through an open and attentive interplay, where improvisation, the lineage of jazz, and experimental extensions of instrumental techniques merge into a contemporary expression.

In their own way, the duo also places itself within a distinct piano–trumpet tradition — from Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong to Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura.
The music moves fluidly in and out of compositions, improvisations, and other more or less charted sonic landscapes — leaving room for the fragile, the explosive, the lyrical, and the unpredictable.