A lot of things is happening at the moment. Among those we will be playing two concerts with my quartet in the next few months.
20:00 the 23rd of february in Lyngby at "Templet" and also 20:00 in my hometown at "Giant Steps" on the 21st of April.
The album is coming along nicely and I hope to be able to release it sometime during the autumn of 2022. I am also working on some other projects, hopefully I can share some more news soon regarding those.
Two productive days in the studio recording our next album has been completed. I am very very pleased with the result and can't wait to share the music with the world!
Thank you from left to right Henrik, Jonas, Ludvig, (Me), Snorre.
I am very happy to announce a few concert dates with my quartet in the coming months. We are currently working on new music for the upcoming second album due to be released in 2022.
Hope to see you at one of the concerts!
Photo by Rebeca Buenrostro
Listen to our new EP release with the trumpet trio B-Bike-Sun-Tree right here.
It's a trio consisting of my good friends Jonas Due on trumpet, Daniel Sommer on drums and myself on the bass.
Photo by Julie Due. Layout by Simon Eskildsen.
This Friday I took part in a live nation-wide radio concert with the Mette Nadja Quartet as well as with my own band Lasse Mørck Quartet.
If you missed the show, it can be listened to through this link.
Photo by Rebeca Buenrostro.
After 1½ awesome years in Mexico, I decided to move back to Denmark. I am truly grateful of the warm and friendly treatment I've recieved in Mexico, but ofcourse especially from friends and students at the conservatory.
So now I once again reside in the beautiful capital of my home country Copenhagen, from where I will be touring, teaching and composing music. It feels great to be back among friends and family, and soon I will be sharing more info on new projects coming up.
This August I started teaching at the jazz department at Universidad Veracruzana (JazzUV) in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. It's been a hectic month so far, but also a lot of fun. I'm really greatful to have been offered this opportunity to work with some of the most talented mexican jazz musicians.
In other news I've also joined the great Xalapa Jazz Orchestra and have various new projects coming up this fall and next year.
After 5 months in Mexico, I'm happy to be back in Denmark for the summer and of course for the jazz festivals. I've made an overview of where you can find me at the CPH Jazz Festival and the Aarhus Jazz Festival. I hope to see some familiar and peculiar faces.
So I decided to move to Mexico for a while.. I have some new exciting projects coming up, but for the moment I won't be updating "upcoming concerts". I'll be based in Xalapa, Veracruz.
My newly released second album as bandleader: The Aztec Creation Myth Suite, is now available online. So if you're interested in seeing the amazing artwork by Rama King Nash, and/or read the myth that the music has been written over, please follow this link.
A big thanks to friend and web-wizard Søren Nørregaard Pedersen (corpyright.com) for making it happen.
THANK YOU to everybody involved in the project!
The band: Jesper Løvdal, Jakob Sørensen, Raphael Carvalho Gimenes, Snorre Kirk, Yohan Ramon.
Sound engineering and mixing by Henrik Holst Hansen and mastering by Sebastian V Olsen.
Artwork by the amazing Rama King Nash and layout by Simon Gorm Eskildsen
Video and photos by Frank Robert Larsen
Today I can finally present to you my second release as bandleader: The Aztec Creation Myth Suite, which now is available for streaming.
You can listen to it here.
Or check out the limited edition CD and Art-booklet (only 150 copies made).THANK YOU to everybody involved in the project!
The band: Jesper Løvdal, Jakob Sørensen, Raphael Carvalho Gimenes, Snorre Kirk, Yohan Ramon.
Sound engineering and mixing by Henrik Holst Hansen and mastering by Sebastian V Olsen.
Artwork by the amazing Rama King Nash and layout by Simon Gorm Eskildsen
Video and photos by Frank Robert Larsen
The first single from the new album "Tezcatlipoca" is out now. This is the composition that won me the prize in January, and so I am very happy to finally be able to share it with everybody.
You can listen to it right here.
I am thrilled to share this new video made by Frank Robert Larsen (FRLfoto), who has been documenting the project.
It's a short insight into the process of making this project.
You can watch it by clicking here.
I hope you'll like it!
This coming November I will be touring the Danish countryside with my sextet, as a marking of the release of my next album: "The Aztec Creation Myth Suite".
We will perform the following dates:
- November 20th: Paradise Jazz Copenhagen
- November 21st: Jive i Vejle
- November 22nd: Casa Carola Århus
- November 25th: Tapperiet Køge
I hope to see all at one or all the events!
We just finished two great days in the studio recording what will become my next release as bandleader & composer.
We recorded a 6-pieced suite that I have written based on the Aztec's Creation Myth "El Quinto Sol / The Fifth Sun". In this project I am collaborating with the great artist Rama King Nash as well as the anthropologist Max Suaza.
Apart from yours truly, the band consists of Jakob Sørensen on trumpet, Jesper Løvdal on tenor, baritone saxes & clarinet, Raphael Gimenes on acoustic guitar, Yohanier Ramón on percussion, Snorre Kirk on drums. We recorded in the old radio danish radio building with great sound engineering work done by Henrik Holst Hansen. I'm planning on releasing the whole thing in November, so stay tuned!
Photo taken by Frank Robert Larsen (frlfoto).
I'm very happy to be playing a few concerts this spring and summer with the Lasse Mørck Quartet.
Beginning in April we play a concert on the 17th at the famous Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, after which we'll visit the beautiful Danish island Bornholm, playing at Muzikhuset, Rønne on the 22nd. On the 29th of June we'll be visiting home soil at the new Svendborg Jazz Festival and then finally we'll feature on the Copenhagen Jazz Festival at Jazzcup on the 10th of July. Hope to see you there!
After the winning ceremony last friday where I won the Young Jazz Composer 2018 competition, the national danish news channel interviewed me, and made this reportage of the event.
This is very surreal.. On the 19th of January, I was declared the winner of this years "Årets Unge Jazzkomponist" competition. The evening concert was performed by the amazing DR Big Band which was conducted by Nikolai Bøgelund. He had also done an amazing big band arrangement of my winning composition "Tezcatlipoca".
You can read about it right here.
Up above is a picture of me with the two other amazing finalists Artur Tuznik and Jens Mikkel Madsen, the very deserved winner of the Leo Mathiesen Prisen 2018 Daimi, and the vice chairman of DPA Jørgen Thorup.
Photo by Kim Vadskær.
It's with great great joy, that I can announce that I'm the lucky receiver of Jazznyt Prisen 2017 for my debut album: "Imagining Places I've Never Been".
AND, on top of that, I'm also very very happy to announce that for the second year in a row (and three in total) I will participate as a finalist in DPA's Young Jazz Composer 2018 Competition. The show will take place the 19th of January in DR byen, Copenhagen, together with the incredible DR Bigband. Tickets can be bought here.