Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester receives five out of six hearts of the jazz-critic Christian Munch-Hansen in the daily, Danish newspaper Politiken. He calls Jakob one of the most important exponents of Danish cross-over and adds:

“…balances brilliantly between thoroughly written music and improvisation. Constantly unpredictable oases pop up in the constructions, subtle ideas, edgy details. Listen how dynamicly and elegantly Davidsen himself takes the piano in and out of the other instruments in a piece like ‘Le Roi et le Mendiant 4′. Listen to the foggy rhythmic-poetic mood the orchestra raises in the piece ‘Bare slap af’. And listen how beautifully Davidsen has arranged the instruments in the exquisite ‘Valse bleue et verte’. In short, this demanding, giving and melodicly substatial CD boosts of inspiration.”

Peter H. Larsen gives Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester a very nice review in the daily, Danish newspaper “Information”. He calls Jakob a true representative of third stream and finds the music “fresh, appetizing, played with virtuosity, serious and funny in its conscious unidentifyable alternation between written and improvised parts of the music.”

You can read the review in Danish here: http://www.information.dk/289434

The first to review the new CD of Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester is the Danish jazzwebsite, www.jazznyt.blogspot.com. The critic Niels Overgaard is very exited about the CD, and writes among other good stuff:

“Along with a bunch of significant musicians Jakob Davidsen has followed his own unique track.”…”One of the great forces of Jakob Davidsen is that he combines complicated and serious music with humor, beauty and vitality. He has made a beautiful CD, which I’ll be digging into for a long time.”

You can read the entire review in Danish here: http://jazznyt.blogspot.com/2011/12/jakob-davidsens-kammerat-orkester.html