VINTERJAZZ: Chris Cutler solo (UK) + Chris Cutler/Lotte Anker/Tomo Jacobson (UK/DK/PL)

Dato/tid
12.02.2018
20:00 – 22:00

VINTERJAZZ 2018

Chris Cutler solo (UK)

+ Chris Cutler/Lotte Anker/Tomo Jacobson (UK/DK/PL)

Chris Cutler – drums, percussion, objects, electronics

Lotte Anker – sax

Tomo Jacobson – double bass

Chris Cutler er en engelsk trommeslager, komponist, lyriker og musikteoretiker. Han blev kendt med den engelske avant-rock gruppe “Henry Cow” samt Art Bears- forgreningen af Henry Cow. Har desuden spillet i utallige improvisations sammenhænge med bla Fred Frith, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins, Otomo Yoshihide og mange flere. Cutler er også medlem af Lotte Ankers 8-m/k store What River Ensemble. Cutler har udviklet nye måder at kombinere elektronik og trommesæt over mange år og skabt et mageløst musikalsk udtryk.

Lotte Anker er en af de fremtrædende stemmer på den Europæiske/Internationale scene for nyskabende musik mellem improvisation, experimental og ny kompositionsmusik.

Initiativtager til og leder af en lang række berømmede grupper og samarbejder: Anker/Taborn/Cleaver, What River Ensemble (med bla Fred Frith, Chris Cutler og Ikue Mori), Electric Habitat, Kvartet m Johannes Bauer, John Edwards & Paul Lovens.

Duo-samarbejder med Fred Frith, Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joelle Leandre, Sten Sandell og mange flere.

Tomo Jacobson is a Polish-born double bass player based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He focuses his efforts on free improv and other creative musics. With over a dozen albums to his credit, he is mostly known for the projects he is a leader, or co-leader to, namely MOONBOW, MOUNT MEANDER, IL SOGNO, or FREE SPIRITUAL, as well his solo double bass work, and free improv encounters with acclaimed musicians.

Tomo has been very fortunate to perform with the greats like John Tchicai, Andrew D’Angelo, Lotte Anker, Adam Rudolph, Rasul Siddik, P.O. Jørgens, Frank Gratkowski, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sun Araw, Jacob Anderskov, Kresten Osgood, Hugh Steinmetz, Søren Kjaergaard, Torben Snekkested, Jesper Zeuthen, and many others.

He played at numerous festivals like Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DK), Vinter Jazz (DK), Roskilde Festival (DK), Festa dell’Opera (IT), Milhões de Festa (POR), Jazz Jamboree (PL), Jazz Jantar (PL), Mózg Festival (PL), Sopot Molo Jazz Festival (PL), Audio Art Festival (PL), In Front (DE), Jazz Units (DE), or Creepy Teepee Festival (CZ).

He has performed in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Cuba, Belgium, Czech Republic, Portugal, Los Angeles and New York.

Tomo is also an active music life curator and organizer in Copenhagen. Most notably he is a founder of the yearly Freedom Music Festival, which is focused on solo and duo free improvised concerts.

He graduated with a master degree from the prestigious Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen. He has also been studying musicology at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Since 2015 together with filmmaker Malwa Grabowska aka Hipermania, Tomo has been working on a documentary film about the legendary double bass player from New York William Parker. The film is in production.

www.tomojacobson.com

Tickets: 100 DKK / Stud: 50 DKK

VINTERJAZZ i KoncertKirken støttes af Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, Nørrebro Lokaludvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Augustinus Fonden, DJBFA’s Produktionspulje og Kodas Kulturelle Midler.