Jazz Music of Denmark
The jazz has been one of the Denmark’s most significant musical formations over the past century. This origin can be linked to Valdemar Ei...
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The
jazz has been one of the Denmark’s most significant musical formations over the
past century. This origin can be linked to Valdemar Eiberg’s group in 1923 and
their recording which was released in the following year. But it was in 1925,
when Sam Wooding brought his group to Copenhagen that the Danish music was then
properly introduced to the genre. Interestingly the early Danish jazz
influenced by the three classically trained musicians; Erik from 1902 to 1957,
who initiated one of the country’s first jazz groups, Bernhard Christensen in
1906, a composer of both the jazz and the classical music, and Seven Moller
Kristensen from 1909 to 1991 who wrote the song for Christensen as well as
series of book about the jazz.
source of picture: denmark.dk
As
jazz became more famous in the 1930s, one of the up-coming stars who was
talented in playing violin, Svend Asmussen was born in 1916 and he made his
first recordings in 1934 at the age of 18 and was still playing his quartet for
over 70 year. During the German occupation in the 1940s, the jazz was dispersed,
but several musicians continued to perform while others escaped to Sweden which
include the percuss Uffe Baadh. Indeed, the era became known as the golden age
of jazz as the number of shows in hotels and restaurants increases and the
number of records arose from about 180 in 1935 to 1939 which is over 650 from
1940 to 1945.
In
the early 1960s when there was something of a renewal, the jazzhus Montmatre was
established in Copenhagen, and reflects the atmosphere of clubs in Paris and
New York City. It has became a major venue for both the Danish and the American
artists, many Americans relocated to Denmark such as Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon,
Ben Websater, Lee, Konitz and several others, the American pianist Kenny Drew, who
invented trio with drummer Alex Riel and bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen,
who became the main jazzhus Montmartre. Danish musicians also started to discover
free jazz in the 1960s with saxophonist John Tchocai, who is the most prominent
supporter.
