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Copenhagen Jazz
Copenhagen, DenmarkHavneparken, Islands Brygge
55.667319,12.576394
type of festival
music
blues, jazz, folk, world, r&b / soul / funk, rock & roll, afro-caribbean, acoustic & instrumental
other events
dance: extravaganza, dancing, folk; art: visual arts & installations
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CPH Jazz Festival: Giant Jam SessionCopenhagen Jazz Festival is a celebration of a musical legacy in a city that was a jazz capital in the 50s & 60s when Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew and Dizzy Gillespie made it their home. It’s also a tribute to Danish jazz stars such as Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Palle Mikkelborg and Alex Riel who contributed to Jazzhus Montmartre’s fame – a place that’s still one of the top 100 festival venues. For ten days, Bebop, post-bop, jazz-rock, nu-jazz and avant-garde jazz-fusion rouses a myriad quaint street-side cafés, bars, pubs and clubs with jam sessions, while concert halls, theatres and the seaside harbour park fill with sax & bass, enticing 250,000 fans to absorb the cool jazzy vibrations resonating throughout Copenhagen Denmark. |
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For 10 days bass and brass takes over Copenhagen and turns it into a giant jam session, one of Europe’s largest summer jazz festivals, with over 1,200 concerts at 100 venues for 250,000 fans. Sax, double bass, trombones, guitars and drums; concerts at DR Byen Koncerthuset, Operaen København, Det Kongelige Teater & Havneparken in Islands Brygge; cool jazzy nights with improve along moody café-laden streets, sultry sounds from the legendary Jazzhus Montmartre; stages with top jazz musicians: Gregory Porter, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Dave Holland, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Christian McBride, Richard Bona, Manu Katché, and acts on the fringe of jazz such as Japanese post-bop-jazz-rock-fusion Hiromi, Malian world-folk-rock-blues Tinariwen and Spanish soul-jazz-flamenco Concha Buika.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival began in 1979, but the city’s jazzy love affair blazed in the 50s & 60s when American icons such as saxophonist Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz (The Girl from Ipanema), Ben Webster (The Brute), swing violinist Stuff Smith, percussionist Ed Thigpen, trumpeter Thad Jones and pianist Kenny Drew chose Copenhagen as their home and inspired Danish greats like drummer Alex Riel, bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and composer Palle Mikkelborg. Today’s CPH Jazz Festival is a gigantic party with indoor concerts and outdoor jazz-fusion jams amidst rhythm-loving roving revellers.
CPH Jazz = 1,200 concerts at 100+ venues for 250,000 jazz fans in Copenhagen!
A history with American jazz, contemporary avant-garde fusion line-ups, legendary jazz headliners, a myriad venues, and Copenhagen city itself, make CFH Jazz Festival a singular event for a quarter million fans each July.
Copenhagen (København) has had a historic love affair with American jazz greats - a relationship that began in the 1950s and continued for more than a decade, turning the city into a European jazz capital.
It has remained one of the most popular jazz festivals because it’s kept up with musical trends.
Appealing to a wider audience & age groups by adding styles on the fringes of jazz.
CPH has featured electro-synth-ambient-space-jazz like what the The Zawinul Syndicate produces, and the heady blend of sounds by Angélique Kidjo that includes Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese-rumba, gospel and Latin-worldbeat. Headliners such as South African cape-jazz-folk-post-bebop composer Abdullah Ibrahim have taken centre stage as well as world-blues-folk (with electric guitars & traditional drums) by Malian Tinariwen, and traditional mbube vocalists Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Since 1979, CPH Jazz has headlined some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians of our time with appearances by (in alphabetical order): Ambrose Akinmusire, B.B.King, Bennie Carter, Bennie Wallace, Benny Waters, Bob Brookmeyer, Buddy DeFranco, Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea, Chico Freeman, Christian Scott, Dave Liebman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Jordan, Ed Thigpen, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta Cameron, Gerald Clayton, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Herman Riley, Jimmy Smith, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Joshua Redman, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Drew, Mario Bauza, Michel Camilo, Michel Petrucciani, Mose Allison, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Ornette Coleman, Oscar Peterson, Palle Mikkelborg, Pat Metheny, Peter Brötzmann, Ray Charles, Richard Bona, Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Steve Coleman, Svend Asmussen, Terry Gibbs, Tony Allen, Tony Bennett and Wayne Shorter.
A hundred venues are reserved for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (Jazz Festival København), places like:
CPH jazz festival has indoor concerts, free outdoor events in parks & city squares, street-side jam sessions/parties in Copenhagen + quirky places...
What do you think?Thank you! |
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AmenitiesEats & Drinks:
Bars, Restaurants, Food Stalls, Water
Fresh & Clean:
Toilets
Cash & Shops:
Cash, Shops
Zone In & Out:
VIP Zone, Kids Zone, Chill Zone
Accessibility:
yes
Copenhagen Jazz Festival AmenitiesIt’s Copenhagen. There’s everything! Indoor Venues
Open-air Venue AmenitiesCatering, traders stalls + drink stands at:
CPHJAZZ app
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Datesstart Fri, 01 July 2016end Sun, 10 July 2016 CPH Jazz Festival DatesCPH Summer Edition
CPH Winter Edition
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Season & WeatherSeason: Summer
Temperature: 13 to 20 °C
Copenhagen weather in summer is warm by day & cool in the evening. The wonderful thing about summer in Denmark is the long hours of daylight, with sunsets around 10pm. Ideal for outdoor concerts & jam sessions at open-air cafés & bars. |
Copenhagen Jazz Festival: Sankt Peders Stræde 28C, 2, København, Denmark.
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