VINTERJAZZ 2019

Mikkel Ploug Trio

Kasper Staub Trio

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Mikkel Ploug Trio

Mikkel Ploug – guitar

Jeppe Skovbakke – bass

Jeppe Gram – drum

Mikkel Ploug trio spiller denne aften tre af den danske komponist Bent Sørensens klaver Nocturner, arrangeret for jazztrio. Nocturnerne bliver flettet sammen med Mikkel’s kompositioner. Mikkel har turneret med sine ensembler i over 20 forskellige lande, og haft en mangefacetteret karriere der også omfatter solist med den kongelige ballet, foredragsholder, arbejde med musikken i sproget. Mikkel har de udgivet en række album på international velrenomerede pladeselskaber, senest Sunnyside baseret i New York. Hans seneste vinyl udgivelse “Faroe” blev udvalgt til første runde af de amerikanske Grammy Awards 2018 og rost af Downbeat, Wall Street Journal, Stereogum samt mange flere.

Presse:

“Mikkel Ploug is the latest sensation in European jazz guitar scene with a personal voice and sound that sings” – La Vanguardia ES

“Masterclass – the danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug is on the way into the Champoins League of contemporary jazzguitarists” – Jazzpodium DE

“Mikkel’s Alleviations album is simply a gorgeous work of art.“ – Prof. John Thomas – Fretboard Journal USA

Downbeat – Extreme beauty – “Their individual voices dovetail gracefully as saxophone and guitar explore their individual roles and come together to achieve a level of creative flow that’s the goal of any artistic pairing.” (Faroe, 2018)

..”one of the most intriguing and best-recorded acoustic guitar albums of recent years.” Where so many guitarists fall back on bravura displays of technique, Mikkel Ploug treads an alternative path, one where virtuosity is subsumed to the greater aim of tone production and care in shaping the form of compositions. Alleviation is a work of outstanding musicianship.” Mark Werlin – US All About Jazz

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Kasper Staub Trio

Kasper Staub – klaver

Jens Mikkel – bas

Anders Vestergaard – trommer

Kasper Staub Trio blev dannet i 2010 af pianisten Kasper Staub, bassisten Jens Mikkel og trommeslageren Anders Vestergaard. Siden har trioen udgivet to anmelderroste albums, ‘/’ (2012) og ‘Havnepladen’ (2014). Trioens tredje album ‘Strøg’ udkom i december 2017 og blev bl.a. ‘ugens album’ på P8 Jazz. ‘Strøg’ symboliserer trioens tilgang til musikken, der som en malers penselstrøg på samme tid må være umiddelbart, afslappet og dybt fokuseret. Kasper Staubs kompositioner har en genreløs, frihedssøgende og nærmest meditativ karakter, som komplimenteres af Jens Mikkel og Anders Vestergaards personlige spillestil og originale tilgang til instrumenterne.

“…kombinationen af poppens melodiske stof og klassisk impressionisme og barok iklædt jazzens uforudsigelige gevandter og fornemmelsen for stilhed skaber en unik nordisk skønhed. En af de bedste debutplader i 2012 simpelthen.” – Jazz Special

“Bag det til tider fnuglette spil, er der en kompositorisk tyngde, der får musikken til, at blive hængende i min hukommelse længe. Kasper Staub Trio er et særdeles velkomment og frisk indspark på den danske klavertrioscene.” – JazzNyt

“…structured as pop songs, with repetitive, cyclical motives that build their tension, and some remarkable interplay between Staub and Mikkel. The entire set list is sequenced as a coherent, organic, continuous series of melodies. Beautiful, provocative music.” – All About Jazz

“…a bold statement from a trio that has already found its own sound and has begun to test its own musical boundaries.” – All About Jazz

ENGLISH

Kasper Staub trio was formed in Aarhus, Denmark in 2010. They released their debut album ‘/’ in 2012, which was mentioned one of the best danish debut albums that year. Next album, ‘Havnepladen’, was released in 2014. It was distributed as just 100 12” copies in old, reversed record sleeves with handmade serigraphic print on each one of them.

The latest album ‘Strøg’, that was selected as ‘album of the week’ on danish national radio P8, points out a new direction to the trio. The entire album opens with an actual soundcheck (‘Zoom Out’), an improvised unintentional playing-around, that accidentally was being recorded during the session. It’s as if the grammophone needle was being dropped down somewhere in the middle of the record. This kind of sudden, unconcerned and liberated state of mind set an ideal mood for the album, that was recorded during fall 2016.

‘Strøg’ translates into ‘Stroke’ or ‘Strokes’, that would symbolize the trio’s approach to the album. The tunes are like twelve strokes from a painter’s brush, strokes that would need to be extremely focused and relaxed at the same time.

We find super minimalist, cyclic tunes such as ‘Aero’ and ‘Lent’, small rubato vignettes like ‘Dendrite’ and ”Zoom In’, groovy beats in ‘Felt’ and ‘Silk St’, beautiful waltsy ballads ‘An Ocean From Here’ and ‘Wave Train’ before the album closes with the powerful one-note composition ‘Ding’.

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Døren åbner 19.30.

VINTERJAZZ i KoncertKirken er støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Københavns Kommune, Oticon Fonden, KODA Kultur, Goethe Instituttet m.fl.