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Peter Rosendal: piano, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, melodica, flugabone, percussion
Kristian Jorgensen: violin
Peter Fuglsang: clarinet
Peter Jensen: trombone
Kaspar Vadsholt: bass
Jeppe Gram: drums

Editor's info:
Pianist Peter Rosendal’s new CD, OLD MAN’S KITCHEN, is made up of many surprising and diverse ingredients, all used with humor, warmth and virtuosity.

You may encounter Rosendal all over the place. A versatile and popular musician, he performs in many settings. He readily agrees that he is inspired by all kinds of music ranging from traditional jazz and folk music – especially from Brazil - to modern jazz and classical music… and movies. The music on Rosendal’s charming and playful CD are improvised “sound tracks” for movies. We mean this literally: Rosendal has a computer on top of his piano. “I simply play. I accompany what I see. This is how I empty my mind, and this is how I create space for new thoughts and ideas. I let the music flow along without any preconceived direction. Sometimes there are things I can use, and I memorize them and write them down to develop them, write arrangements and voices for various instruments, etc.”

For OLD MAN’S KITCHEN, Peter Rosendal chose violin, trombone and clarinet as the melody instruments, because he enjoys working with voices. The idea grew out of his interest in classical wind quartets, where it is common to combine diverse instrumental sounds. This may read as a dry experiment, but that’s not what it sounds like at all. On OLD MAN’S KITCHEN Rosendal has worked more with sound than style, and the album combines humor and groove in a wonderful mixture of this, that and everything. Peter Rosendal found his spices and components on every shelf of the kitchen cupboard. Here and there we find ingredients we erroneously thought were stale; some are made of plastic, others are in fancy, decorated tins; some are frozen, and must be defrosted. There are fresh meats, juicy steaks, coffee, cakes, vegetables, baked beans, an exotic sauce, strange spices, salt and pepper, and a few forgotten preserves from the b.......
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