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"Boxing is like jazz, the better it is, the less people appreciate it" - George Foreman
  • You now have the opportunity to join the largest investment for jazz and world music in the German music market, when World Music Denmark, Jazz Denmark and Heart-Link Management in December launches Danish Vibes, supported by the National Arts Foundation.
  • JazzDanmark Puljen offers financial travel aid for Danish musicians in order to fund projects with an international character.

June 2012

Danish Music for China (DMK) has for years organized concerts in both China and other parts of Asia. The project supports the collection of knowledge and knowhow relating to the presentation of Danish music in China. This includes working with tours, networking, strategy and finance. Now you can get to the info meeting on 18th June at 9.30 am, where experience is shared and where all interested parties can get examples of developments in the presentation of Danish music in China.
After 10 months of silence at the water-damaged rooms in Niels Hemmingsens Gade, Jazzhouse opened up to a beautiful and newly renovated concert hall on the 1st of June. With subtle dark shades and a new location for the stage, bar, wardrobe and backstage, you can say Copenhagen has almost gotten a brand new venue. The first weekend was packed with music and people, and the program for the next long period of time has already been booked. In other words: Jazz House is back!
The finale of the nationwide jazz competition for young musicians ‘Young Jazz’ went down last night (wednesday the 6th of June) at the re-opened JazzHouse in Copenhagen. The winner was the intergalactic trio Andromeda. The trio swept away both audience and jury members with the convincing compositions, matching spacesuits and cosmic anecdotes.
So far a young creative jazz musician has managed to raise a quarter of a million Danish kroner for an transverse musical art project in West Jutland, which mixes music, sound montage and video art.
Whether it's dusty jazz in Copenhagen, dixie jazz in Silkeborg or electro jazz at the Harbour in Køge there is not much doubt: Denmark is a Mecca for jazz festivals! But when and where are the different festival located? And what kind of music do they offer? We´ve put together a list of Danish Jazz Festivals for you.
The Children's Jazz Club is organizing a huge summer tour in Denmark with some of the best children's jazz artists. The whole tour is sponsored by JazzDanmark. It’s all about bringing talented musicians and homemade music out to the smallest of all jazz audiences: the children.
Drummer ”Rakalam” Bob Moses is in Denmark until the beginning of August as a part of Artist in Residence program. While here he’ll be doing a series of concerts, workshops and recordings with Danish musicians. The 64-year-old musician who is probably best known for his collaboration with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius, is looking forward to playing with a lot of Danish jazz musicians over the next couple of months.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival is just around the corner, and thus awaits more than 1100 concerts in just 10 days from the 6th to 15th July. The festival is known for attracting the biggest names in jazz to major concert venues in Copenhagen: But most parts of the festival takes place outdoors on the city's smaller venues and sites. We've taken a look at three festivals within the festival: ILK sessions on 5e, Loco Days and Copenhagen Trashzz Festival.
Saturday the 14th of July at 11 am., you can meet a number of international journalists who talk about the jazz media situation in their countries. JazzDanmark and Copenhagen Jazz Festival, have teamed up to present this "JazzLab: Meet The Press" session designed to give musicians, professionals and other interested parties an insight into how to get through the "press-wall" in e.g. England , Finland or Holland.

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