Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011

Start your summer Sunday with heartrendingly beautiful melodies and hypnotic African grooves, or round off your day’s work on a Thursday with an atmosphere redolent of New York in Thorvaldsens Museum.

Sunday Morning Jazz –
The Sissel Vera Pettersen and Nikolai Hess Duo
July 3, 11.15 AM

Price DKK 80 incl. entrance fee to the museum.
Buy your ticket at the museum today.
Genre: Vocal

CANCELLED DUE TO WATER DAMAGE!
Ticket refunds please contact the museum at phone 33321532.

The singer Sissel Vera Pettersen and the pianist Nikolaj Hess play a mixture of new and old standard pieces, their own compositions and improvised passages, from heart-rendingly beautiful melodies via ambient sound landscapes to hypnotic African grooves, all clearly stamped with the quite unique tone the two musicians have in common, their organic creativity and their original improvisations. The duo have played together since 2003, produced two CDs that were highly praised by the critics, the first being accorded the title of the “new name of the year” by the Danish Music Awards (2007), the second being nominated as “the best vocal jazz product of the year” (DMA 2010). Coffee, tea and croissants will be on sale.

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Late Afternoon Jazz w. Nikolaj Hess & Marc Mommaas
July 7, 5.15 PM

Price DKK 80 incl. entrance fee to the museum.
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Genre: Modern/Contemporary

Duo Marc Mommaas and Nikolaj Hess. The Dutch/American tenor star Marc Mommaas and the pianist Nikolaj Hess started playing as a duo in New York in 1997 and since then have played and recorded together with various major ensembles (their most recent CD is “Nikolaj Hess Global Motion +”, which in addition to a Danish Music Awards nomination as the year’s best jazz CD received enthusiastic international reviews). On this special occasion, the Hess/Mommaas Duo will mainly play contemporary and strikingly personal versions of standards. The duo’s enormous musical and instrumental vitality and their common background in both European and American jazz together with their ability in complete harmony freely to follow the immediate direction of the music provide the perennial good old songs with a powerful, modern, beautiful and personal presence in their interpretation.
Beer will be available to purchase.

You find the complete program for this year’s edition of Copenhagen Jazz Festival here.