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"Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny" - Frank Zappa
  • 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.

July 2012

The Roskilde Festival is not known for putting jazz in their festival line-up. Their broad musical profile leaves nevertheless room for names that have a foothold in the jazz world. We have looked at concerts to to go to, if you want to explore the jazzy corners of the Roskilde Festival.
True to tradition, this autumn will see the annual Danish Music Awards Jazz. And as always jazz music and its musicians will be celebrated and crowned properly, but for this to happen, JazzDanmark are in need of music that have been release in the period from 1st of July 2011 through to June 30th, 2012
The annual visiting programme International Corner is just around the corner. This means that a number of international key players from the jazz scene travel to Copenhagen to be a part of the annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival, to witness and experience the Danish jazz scene close and up front.
When saxophonist and former big band leader Jens Klüver plays his farewell concerts with the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra - the former Klüver's Big Band - at the Ridehuset in Aarhus on the 17th to 20th of July, he is also honored by his fellow colleagues.