On saturday the 31st of march Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester will take part in an exciting project.
This day the new display of Danish and International Art after 1900 opens at the National Gallery of Denmark, and the band has been asked to play their musical versions of 6 selected pieces of art. A potent mixture of art and music.
It starts live in front of the selected pieces of art at 12.30 and continues at the stage at 14h with music and videoprojection.
The New York based jazzsite, Jazzwrap, gives Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester an outstanding review. Please read it here:
http://www.jazzwrap.blogspot.com/2012/03/jakob-davidsen-kammerat-orkester.html
Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester receives another great review in the Danish Jazzmagazine, ‘Jazzspecial’.
Bjarne Søltoft finds the music “delicious, cunning and playfull, subtle and surprising, criptic and comic. You never get time to be bored in this forum.”
In the end he concludes:
“Davidsen and his fellows form an astonishing synthesis of score and improvisation. To the joy and delight of the listener.”
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
The new CD from Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester is out now and is available on iTunes, in stores, on several websites and finally on this homepage. Just follow the link below this article.
The CD was recorded in May 2011 and contains brand new music as well as new interpretations of older stuff.
Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester has an extraordinary line-up with Peter Fuglsang on clarinet, Jakob Munck on horns, Lars Andreas Haug on tuba, John Ehde on cello and Jakob Davidsen on piano. No drums and no bass!
This setup gives the muscians opportunities to go into more open musical landscapes without any musical borders. It might be jazz, it might be contemporary classical music or it might be impro. But first of all it is the sound of Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester.
Kammerat in Danish means comrade or friend, and the first part of the word, kammer, means chamber. So Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester both means Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of his friends in music.