muzycy:
Thomas Clausen: piano, electric piano
Thomas Fonnesbak: bass
Karsten Bagge: drums

Editor's info:
Thomas Clausen Trio is an institution in Danish jazz. His first trio from the early 1980s– with bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Aage Tanggaard – placed him among the great Danish jazz pianists. Since then, many of Denmark’s leading rhythm players have passed through his various trios. In 2006 he started his latest – fourth – jazz trio, which includes Denmark’s perhaps most talented jazz bassist today, Thomas Fonnesbak, and the extremely elegant and popular drummer Karsten Bagge. In August 2006 the trio recorded their acclaimed album BACK TO BASICS, featuring a selection of well-known jazz standards and compositions by Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, as well as two Clausen originals, a ballad called “Home” and the more aggressive “Pelicans… & Other Birds”. And this is where SOL begins. Aside from Thomas Laub’s “Det er hvidt herude”, the trio plays exclusively Thomas Clausen’s compositions – worn in and polished during many performances.

Recorded at Gothenburg’s Nilento Studio, the music is translucent, serene, mature and beautiful, as only Denmark’s no.1 jazz trio can play. Their intensity and intuitive elegance, their superb interplay – indeed they sound like a single organism – is more intense than ever, and words like intimate and sparkling come to mind, when attempting to describe their telepathic communication. The trio is the perfect platform for Clausen’s personal piano style and broad-scoped musical world. This is the European – perhaps Danish – side of Clausen’s music, not the Latin side of his talent, and the mature and bold compositions span the whole emotional range from melancholy moods to straightforward grooves.

Thomas Clausen was very young when he began accompanying many of the giants of jazz. His energetic piano-playing was first discover.......
more

Editor's info:
Thomas Clausen Trio is an institution in Danish jazz. His first trio from the early 1980s– with bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Aage Tanggaard – placed him among the great Danish jazz pianists. Since then, many of Denmark’s leading rhythm players have passed through his various trios. In 2006 he started his latest – fourth – jazz trio, which includes Denmark’s perhaps most talented jazz bassist today, Thomas Fonnesbak, and the extremely elegant and popular drummer Karsten Bagge. In August 2006 the trio recorded their acclaimed album BACK TO BASICS, featuring a selection of well-known jazz standards and compositions by Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, as well as two Clausen originals, a ballad called “Home” and the more aggressive “Pelicans… & Other Birds”. And this is where SOL begins. Aside from Thomas Laub’s “Det er hvidt herude”, the trio plays exclusively Thomas Clausen’s compositions – worn in and polished during many performances.

Recorded at Gothenburg’s Nilento Studio, the music is translucent, serene, mature and beautiful, as only Denmark’s no.1 jazz trio can play. Their intensity and intuitive elegance, their superb interplay – indeed they sound like a single organism – is more intense than ever, and words like intimate and sparkling come to mind, when attempting to describe their telepathic communication. The trio is the perfect platform for Clausen’s personal piano style and broad-scoped musical world. This is the European – perhaps Danish – side of Clausen’s music, not the Latin side of his talent, and the mature and bold compositions span the whole emotional range from melancholy moods to straightforward grooves.

Thomas Clausen was very young when he began accompanying many of the giants of jazz. His energetic piano-playing was first discover.......
more