Press
Contact
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Sankt Peders Stræde 28C, 2. sal
1453 København K
Tlf.: +45 3393 2013
Simon Christensen → simon@jazz.dk
Communication Manager
Lasse Stenvang → lasse@jazz.dk
Communication Assistant
Website: www.jazz.dk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cphjazzfestival (All pictures in web resolution)
Twitter: www.twitter.com/cphjazz
YouTube: www.youtube.com/cphjazzfestival
Pressphotos 2012
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 6-15
→ Vijay Iyer, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Joey Baron, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Anoushka Shankar, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Carsten Dahl, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Kongens Have, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Søren Kjærgaard, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Wayne Shorter, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Neneh Cherry And The Thing, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ T.S. Høeg, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Tony Allen publikum, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ John Scofield, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Master Fatmans Jazzskole, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Choir Of Young Believers, Photo: Bobby Anwar (JPG)
Festivalposters
→ Poster 1, black and blue (JPG / PDF)
→ Poster 2, black and white (JPG / PDF)
→ Poster 3, blue and black (JPG / PDF)
→ All posters in high resolution (ZIP)
Vinterjazz, February 3-19, Honorary Award
→ Award Ceremony: Jack DeJohnette, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Award Ceremony: Palle Mikkelborg, Jack DeJohnette and Jasper Høiby, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Live: Palle Mikkelborg, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Live: Jack DeJohnette, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Live: Journey 2, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Live: Palle Mikkelborg og Jonas Hellborg, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
General photos
→ Atmosphere, The Royal Theater, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Something Else, Charlottenborg, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Red Roof, DGI Byen, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Sort Kaffe & Vinyl, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Jazzhouse, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Jazz For Kids 1, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Atmosphere, Jazz For Kids 2, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
Press releases 2012
Stand alone shows
→ 10.09 ToneKunst Junior tager med Master Fatman og Børnenes Værksted på opdagelsesrejse til Saturn, Jupiter og Neptun i efterårsferien (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 08.28 Klavertalent fortolker Nick Drake på Statens Museum for Kunst (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 09.12 Søren Kjærgaard genopliver Cage på Jazzhouse den 13. september (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 09.12 Kresten Osgood hylder Sun Ra på Jazzhouse (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 08.20 Mike Sheridan, Marylin Mazur, Søren Kjærgaard, Jan Bang og August Rosenbaum sætter strøm til jazzen (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.26 Ungt klavertalent fortolker George Harrison på Statens Museum for Kunst (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.22 Copenhagen Jazz Festival og Det Kongelige Bibliotek præsenterer Enrico Pieranunzi (DANISH) (PDF)
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 6-15
→ 07.15 Svarskrift: København har verdens bedst jazzfestival - fuld version (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.15 Copenhagen Jazz Festival siger tak for i år - og på gensyn i 2013, 5.-14. juli (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.12 John Scofield gæster Gl. Scene med The Hollowbody Band (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.11 Afrobeat-ikonet giver koncert på Bryggen torsdag den 12. juli (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.10 Saxofonlegenden Wayne Shorter gæster Gl. Scene (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.09 Something Else i Haveselskabets Have (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.09 Internationale navne skød Copenhagen Jazz Festival i gang (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.06 Jazz- og fusionsmastodonter hylder Miles Davis (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.06 Verdensmusik midt i jazzen (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.05 Superpianisten Brad Mehldau kaster stjerneskær på Gamle Scene (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 07.04 Stjernespækket åbningsweekend på Copenhagen Jazz Festival - Brad Mehldau, Anoushka Shankar, Vijay Iyer (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 06.27 Copenhagen Jazz Festival er lige på trapperne (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 06.25 Choir Of Young Believers giver koncert på Gl. Scene (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 06.20 Copenhagen Jazz Festival udgiver gratis app (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 05.24 Samlet program klar for Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2012 (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 05.24 Full programme ready for Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2012 (ENGLISH) (PDF)
→ 05.03 Jazzhouse, Montmartre og Huset lokker med Lovano/Douglas, Mulgrew Miller og Leszek Mozdzer under festivalen (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 05.01 Brad Mehldau, The Thing, John Scofield og Goran Kajfes føjes til programmet for Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2012 (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 03.29 Copenhagen Jazz Festival afslører tværgående visuelt tema samt tre store navne – Wayne Shorter, Anoushka Shankar og Tony Allen (DANISH) (PDF)
Vinterjazz, February 3-19
→ 02.26 Afrunding Vinterjazz 2012: Den landsdækkende festival fejrede livejazzen for 12. gang (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.17 Vinterjazz 2012 slutter med eftertragtede domkirkekoncerter, gratis museumsjazz og Berlin-besøg (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.10 Fra Monk til Led Zeppelin – Joshua Redman Trio på eksklusivt Vinterjazz-besøg (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.06 Vinterjazz styrer mod endnu en jazzvarm weekend (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 02.03 Jack DeJohnette og Palle Mikkelborg modtager Copenhagen Jazz Festival Honorary Award. Spansk superpianist og svensk basikon medvirker i award-koncert (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 01.31 Musikelskere landet over kan se frem til en sprudlende første weekend af Vinterjazz... (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 01.25 Hess Is More og Eggs Laid By Tigers åbner Vinterjazz (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 01.23 Vinterjazz kommer til hele Danmark 3.-19. februar (DANISH) (PDF)
→ 01.16 Program for Vinterjazz 2012 (DANISH) (PDF)
Selected media coverage 2012
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 6-15
→ 07.30 Feature, DownBeat, Mitch Meyers: Percussion Heavyweight Shine in Copenhagen (ENGLISH) (PDF)
→ 07.15 Review, LondonJazz, Sebastian Scotney: Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2012 (ENGLISH) (PDF)
→ 07.13 Feature, Financial Times, Mike Hobart: Off The Bebop Track (ENGLISH (PDF)
→ 07.11 Feature, TAZ.de, Christian Broeckinge: All That Jæzz (ENGLISH) (PDF)
Vinterjazz, February 3-19
→ 02.15 Review, Berlingske, Kjeld Frandsen: På eventyr med en saxofon, Joshua Redman Trio, Koncerthuset (WWW)
→ 02.15 Review, Information, Peter H. Larsen: Jazztenorens magtdemonstration, Joshua Redman Trio, Koncerthuset (WWW)
→ 02.14 Review, Berlingske, Kjeld Frandsen: En opløftende musikalsk vinterrejse, Søren Dahl Jeppesen Quartet, Statens Museum for Kunst (WWW)
→ 02.13 Review, Information, Peter H. Larsen: Jazz & poesi, hver for sig og sammen, Mark Turner og Jakob Bro & Peter Laugesen (WWW)
→ 02.13 Review, Berlingske, Kjeld Frandsen: Polsk musiklegende in memoriam, Leszek Mozdzer (WWW)
→ 02.12 Review, GAFFA, Ivan Rod: Mesterlig polsk soloklaverkoncert, Leszek Mozdzer (WWW)
Older photos
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011, July 1-10
→ Keith Jarrett Trio, Operaen, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Bunky Green & Kresten Osgood, Jazzhouse, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ The Pyramids, Vor Frue Plads, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Chimes & Bells, Charlottenborg, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Charles Lloyd, Jazzhouse, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ August Rosenbaum, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Red Roof, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Bobby McFerrin, DR Koncerthuset, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Oumou Sangaré, Pressen, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ ELEkTRO feat. John Tchicai, Ofelia Beach, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Sonny Rollins, Det Kongelige Teater, Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen (JPG)
→ Official Opening: GinmanBlachmanDahl, Nils Petter Molvær, Stephen Riley, Kongens Have, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010, July 2-11
→ Gretchen Parlato, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Joshua Redman, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Kresten Osgood and Ned Ferm, Sort Kaffe & Vinyl, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Kira Skov, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
→ Jesper Thilo, Visit Carlsberg, Photo: Jonas Pryner (JPG)
Videos
→ Press conference: Sonny Rollins, Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011 (YouTube)
→ Official opening 2011: Nils Petter Molvær, Stephen Riley & GinmanBlachmanDahl (YouTube) → Jazz for Kids 2011 (YouTube)
→ Jakob Bro w. Bill McHenry, Skuespilhuset (YouTube)
→ Interview w. Lawrence Donahue-Green, New York City Jazz Record (YouTube)
About the festival
Every single summer since 1979 Copenhagen Jazz Festival has been taking over Copenhagen as one of Europe’s most important international music events based on eminent artistic quality and a sharp focus on new departures in both Danish and international jazz. Lasting 10 days, the festival envelops the Danish capital, offering a sumptuous musical feast to the 250,000 guests who join us year after year. Enjoying live jazz on the city’s streets, in its clubs cafés and concert halls, and at open-air night venues – all in the very heart of historical Copenhagen.
Copenhagen’s legendary status as one of the jazz capitals of Europe grew in the 1950s and 1960s, when a whole host of leading American jazz icons had their creative base in the city. Among those who have called Copenhagen home are Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Stuff Smith, Ed Thigpen, Thad Jones and Kenny Drew. Each and every one of them has drawn inspiration from Denmark’s jazz scene and the era’s most important jazz club: Jazzhus Montmartre. This was also the time when some of Denmark’s best musicians had their international breakthrough, musicians like Alex Riel, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Palle Mikkelborg.
Copenhagen’s unique jazz history is a key factor in the exceptionally high level of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, something that can be experienced at the many free open-air stages strategically located throughout the historical city centre. Together with Copenhagen’s record number of cafés and music venues, these stagers create a unique atmosphere, bringing the city alive with jazz from early morning to late at night. As Signe Lopdrup, director of Copenhagen Jazz Festival, says: “People don’t only come for a fantastic musical experience, but for the unique atmosphere throughout Copenhagen when jazz takes over the city.”
The festival audience can listen to top international jazz names at the stunning Royal Theatre, Copenhagen’s Opera House and Jean Nouvel’s architectural world-class Koncerthus – as well as along the harbour front, where they can take a dip in the clear waters to the sounds of Danish and international jazz. Copenhagen Jazz Festival also proudly presents music at the border of jazz and other genres as part of the programme ‘Something Else’. And everyone’s welcome to take their kids to the beautiful parks to the east of the city where thousands of children and their parents flock every summer to enjoy a packed programme of live jazz, circus, painting workshops and singing - all part of the ‘Jazz for Kids’ festival programme.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival takes a pride in reaching many – and new – audiences, with tailor-made programmes for pensioners and teenagers, kids and their families, as well as catering for jazz aficionados and enthusiasts. Visitors can look forward to Copenhagen as a friendly and creative city where it’s safe to wander around accompanied by jazz night and day. A modern and open-minded metropolis that can be experienced at its very best during Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
Facts
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
- Copenhagen Jazz Festival starts the first friday of July and runs for ten straight days.
- The festival features around 1,000 concerts at around 100 venues.
- The concerts takes place at clubs, cafes, bars, concert halls and open-air stages in the city’s parks and squares and along the harbour front.
- Besides the concerts acquiring entry fees the festival features a great number of free concerts.
- Pre-sale spots can be found at www.jazz.dk. In addition, most venues will offer tickets at the door.
- The festival engages more than 200 volunteers.
- The festival has existed in its present form since 1979.
Programme
- The printed programme is released in May and is available for purchase at local supermarket Irma, local libraries, cafes, DSB-stores and at all venues.
- The complete programme is also available for download as a free application for iPhone and Android. The application features a full festival schedule, daily news and a GPS.
Visitors
- During the course of the 10 days the total audience numbers to more than 250,000 people.
- The visitors are divided evenly among the age groups 0-35 years, 36-55 years and 56 years or older.
- Nine out of teen visitors are Danish. The foreign visitors are primarily Swedish, Norwegian, German, British and American.
- Copenhagen Jazz Festival generates approximately 80 million Danish kroner in revenue for the city of Copenhagen (Source: Wonderful Copenhagen, Nov. 2011)
Reports
→ Visitor Analysis: Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2011 (by Wonderful Copenhagen) PRESS RELEASE // REPORT
→ Repport: Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010 (98 MB) (PDF)
What others are saying
”As I familiarize myself with the city of Copenhagen as well as its expansive jazz festival and all that it provides, I’m overwhelmed and impressed by this rich and varied cultural experience.” – Mitch Meyers, Magnet Magazine
”As it is, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a vast and remarkable jazz buffet that need not be assembled into cogent meals to more than satisfy the music lover’s appetite.” – Michael J. West, Jazztimes
“The Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a varied extravaganza that leans from the summer festival blockbusters and makes sure to demonstrate diversity.” – Josef Woodard, Downbeat
“Copenhagen Jazz Festival (is…) one of the most ambitious annual jazz events in the world.” – Thierry Quenum, Jazz.com
”Really, though, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival isn’t just about individual concerts and performers. It’s about the way in which the city comes thoroughly alive in celebration of a music that has deep roots in the city. That legacy is found everywhere. A marvellous, magical experience.” – Mischa Pearlman, Clash
”I haven't got the time to see it all, because there is so much good music at the same time. It's frustrating!” – Zhang You Dai, All That Jazz at China Radio
”There is a lot of people to the concerts with the most difficult jazz music. There wouldn't even be this many people to the shows in New York.” – Seth Rogovoy, Berkshire Daily
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