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| This dixieland band's name means "Blue Monday" |
We've been able to hear one or two concerts (or bits and pieces of them) every day. There is a printed schedule (in Danish) and an English version is online, so it's been extremely easy to find. You can also just randomly hear jazz playing as you walk around so even without a schedule it's not difficult to find the concerts.
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| Gypsy jazz in the rain |
We've seen everything from Dixieland jazz with banjos to gypsy jazz with a fiddle; soft-spoken scat vocalists to honkingly horrible free-jazz saxophones. There is definitely something for every taste here.
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| Set list - most emceeing was in Danish, but songs were sung in English |
What we've enjoyed most is just the massive enthusiasm for this (originally American) art form. Young and old, people come out and enjoy the concerts.
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| Kira Martini's Quintet |
Today was a Saturday and we were excited to hear the Copenhagen University Big Band accompanying vocalist Debbie Cameron. They didn't actually play any jazz, but we didn't mind that at all since the entire set was dedicated to James Bond theme songs. She did a killer rendition of "Skyfall", and "Goldfinger" brought the house down.
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| Debbie Cameron with the University Big Band |
In the evening we headed over to Tivoli Gardens to hear the Tivoli Late Night Orchestra. We had high hopes for some big band swing, but were hugely disappointed when the concert theme turned out to be "Funk, Motown, and Pop". This event probably shouldn't have been included in the Jazz Festival schedule. A band covering Burt Bacharach's "Never Fall in Love Again", The Beatles "Got To Get You Into My Life", and Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" does not count as jazz in my book. But, hey, it's hard to complain too much when you are out on a beautiful Saturday night at one of the world's oldest amusement parks!
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