Morten Ankarfeldt

Northbound

By Pernille Bevort

Label: Gateway Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Northbound; My Soft Spot; Floating; Sleepwalker; Strolling in June; Pending Spring; Reflections in Three; Tiny Hesitation; Autumn Equinox; Ebullient Encounter.

Pernille B��vort: Curious Explorations

by Ian Patterson
June 17, 2024

A veteran of the Danish jazz scene since the '90s, saxophonist/reeds player and composer Pernille B��vort has built an impressive discography as a leader. With the moveable feast that is Radio B��vort, she has demonstrated the depth and range of her musical palette, marrying jazz and tango on Perfect Organisation (Gateway Music, 2011) with bandoneon player ...

Morten Schantz Trio: Passenger

by Ian Patterson
January 7, 2023

It might be tempting to view Morten Schantz's Passenger as a lockdown album, recorded as it was during those strange times of isolation, but the music can perhaps better be understood as the culmination of personal and musical growth stretching back over more than two decades. Schantz first led a piano trio whilst still ...

Passenger

By Morten Schantz

Label: April Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mountaineer; Hidden Island; Ankarhelten; Pokhara; Dynasty; The Yes Cat; Apia; Passenger.

Live 2020-2021

By Pernille Bevort

Label: Gateway Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Who��s Got It: Apricot Blossom; Bevarro; Mit Fiktive Sommerhus; Trefoil; Trio Temptations; Minor Clues; Theme for Ernie.

B��vort 3: Live 2020-2021

by Ian Patterson
January 23, 2022

Twenty-five years on from her debut, A Live (Music Mecca, 1997), recorded at Copenhagen's Jazzhaus, Danish saxophonist Pernille Bévort returns with another live outing. Live is only her second live recording as leader in that time, though 2021 did see the archival releases, in EP format, of a quartet performance from 1999 and another of B��vort ...

I'm All Ears

By Mads Mathias

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Forget me not 2. Labour of love 3. Angel in disguise 4. I'm all ears 5. Marigold 6. The forbidden word 7. Henpecked man 8. If I were a dancer 9. Little then did I know

On Fire

By Pernille Bevort

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: LOOZE; Theme for Ernie; Sketch; The Shorter the Better; On Fire; Who Leaves II; Kill Your Darlings.

B��vort 3: On Fire

by Ian Patterson
July 22, 2021

After a recording hiatus of seven years, B��vort 3, the trio led by Pernille Bévort, is back. Not that the Danish saxophonist-composer has been idling. Since the release of Trio Temptations (Gateway Music, 2014), B��vort has dedicated most of her energy to expanded line-ups. Which Craft? (Gateway Music, 2016) for octet and BLIK (Self Produced, 2020) ...