Little North

in #music2 years ago (edited)

Copenhagen is not the jazz capitol of the world. It is a nice, hyggelig but not unimportant provincial city in the jazz world. In the sixties and seventies Stockholm, Amsterdam and Copenhagen was buzzing with great American musicians, and I and the girls go to Ben Webster's grave every spring to put some flowers on it as he lived here his last years.

Every summer the Copenhagen Jazz Festival has a lot of great names, but this evening my wife and I choose a local and very young piano trio whose records we have enjoyed a lot.

It was steaming hot (my comfort limit is 22°C), but they really played beautifully and I had a very cold beer. Same sound and tight, concentrated improvisations as we knew from the records I bought on Bandcamp. In the second set there was one, very long, very complicated ... erhm ... movement, where I had to whisper to my wife that it probably was entitled, "Lost in the Northern Jazzmark", but all in all a killer concert by some incredible, but still humble young musicians, who couldn't hide their surprise that the concert had been sold out. (The fate of the jazz-man and -woman who has played for empty night clubs and uninterested party people their whole life).

Their sound is both new and still very traditional. There is a certain sound of Nordic jazz and these blokes has both Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen and Jan Johansson in them while also doing all sorts of new things. Well, it was great!


Little_North.jpg

I took three photos and they all looked the same

Here's some of their studio recordings. The concert was just as concentrated and perfectly sounding.

Sort:  

I'm just getting back on after over a month, illness in family , but it feels like I've been gone a year. I'm excited to learn about your kickstarter and looks like a lovely night for some 'hot' jazz, literally lol. @katharsisdrill

I hope everything is OK. Yes, I am probably doing a lot of Kickstarters in the coming time as I am behind schedule.

Good time to keep busy with our coming New World :) Do you like doing the kickstarters? Is it a complicated process?

The Kickstarter website only charge 8-10% (including bank fees) so it is a good deal if you have to make something expensive. I think it is funny to make the films, but it is mostly about business which in itself is never that funny :)

They sound good. Great to hear they had a decent audience. It's been a tough time for live music. My daughter was out seeing Green Day in a stadium last night, which is very different, but that gig had been postponed a while.

Yes, and on top of that they can't make any money any more from selling recordings. you could of course buy LPs after the concert, but I already bought the digital files from Bandcamp. We can just hope that the evils of the internet, will turn into a much better deal for all small craftsmen and artists.

I still have hopes that Hive could be a way for artists to earn. They just need enough loyal fans. We shall see...

Yes, Hive is one of those possibilities that could change the current situation.

Cold beer on a hot evening while listening to jazz music sounds like a good way to pass the time. The festival sounds fun.

Yes, Copenhagen is a nice city in the summer.

Mesmerizing music! Must be fabulous to be in the same room with. Yummy.

I was a great concert :)

Little North music is really amazing.
My Favorite song : 1. What Happens Next? and another is 2. New water

:) They played What happens Next as encore.

I love jazz.jpg

:) Me too.

Then, you're invited to visit my blog, where you'll find more than 2,000 posts about this kind of music, mainly biographies and tracks from YouTube. Happy Sunday! 😀

Dear @katharsisdrill, we need your help!

The Hivebuzz proposal already got important support from the community. However, it lost its funding a few days ago when the HBD stabilizer proposal rose above it.

May we ask you to support it so our team can continue its work?
You can do it on Peakd, Ecency,

Hive.blog / https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals
or using HiveSigner.
https://peakd.com/me/proposals/199

All votes are helpful and yours will be much appreciated.
Thank you!