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A virtuoso who mainly played in bop-oriented configurations, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen is at great demand since he was an adolescent. Among the many outstanding Western bassists to emerge through the 1960s, Pedersen originally analyzed piano prior to starting to try out bass with Danish organizations when he was 14. He …

Michala Petri is among couple of recorder players on the planet to manage building an extremely successful career like a soloist, recitalist, and chamber participant. She often shows up in collaboration with her spouse Lars Hannibal, a guitarist and lutenist. Previously in her profession, Petri performed within the Petri Trio …

A local of Denmark, saxophonist Michael Lington is really a purveyor of modern jazz. The grandson of well-known Danish bandleader Otto Lington — an early on proponent of jazz in Scandinavia — Lington started performing at a age as an associate from the world-renowned Tivoli Guys Guard. His participation with …

When Kashmir entered the Danish picture in 1993, it had been clear towards the Danish music market and fans as well that new lease of life had been injected right into a moribund rock and roll scene. Alongside rings like Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and In the Whale, Kashmir had been …

Among the finest trombonists to emerge from the bebop period, Kai Winding was always for an level overshadowed by J.J. Johnson, although they co-led perhaps one of the most well-known jazz sets of the mid-’50s. Delivered in Denmark, Winding emigrated towards the U.S. along with his family members when he …

Danish band featuring vocalist King Diamond, guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner, bassist Timi Hansen, and drummer Kim Ruzz. Mercyful Destiny won a big cult following because of their dramatic lyrics, displaying a Gothic obsession with bad as well as the occult, and Diamond’s amazing vocal range, which shifted from …

Among the best Western straight-ahead jazz music artists from 1970 onward, Danish reedman Jesper Thilo offers appeared on many information with American performers furthermore to recording along with his fellow countrymen. His tenor audio is similar to Zoot Sims. Thilo, who in addition has occasionally performed alto and clarinet, initial …

Pierre Dørge has gained some popularity for his use his New Jungle Orchestra, a music group that plays new interpretations of some classics (particularly by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk) alongside its leader’s originals. Dørge led his 1st music group in 1960, was an associate of John Tchicai’s big music …

The seeds for Danish psychobilly sextet, the HorrorPops, were sewn in 1996 throughout a gig that found bassist/lead singer Patricia Day’s indie-punk collective Peanut Pump Gun opening for guitarist Kim Nekroman’s music group Nekromantix at POPKOM in Cologne, Germany. Both discovered that they distributed an abundance of mutual passions, both …

Jorgen Ingmann was a Danish guitarist who enjoyed a short fling with international popularity because of his instrumental saving of “Apache,” which became a high 10 hit in america, Canada and THE UK in 1961. Delivered in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1925, Ingmann initial distinguished himself being a jazz musician, and …