Tracks:
01. Jazz Kvintet 60: Vacker Flickor
02. Finn Mickelborg's Qvintet: Bennie's Groove
03. Erik Moseholm, Bent Axen & Peter Wissing: Hilsen fra Peter
04. Finn Savery: Night and Day
05. Louis Hjulmand Quartet: Opbrud
06. Bent Jaedig: B's Waltz
07. Max Leth: Taboo
08. Cy, Maia & Robert: City Blues
09. Sahib Shihab: Charade
10. Bjarne Rostvold: Folk Music
11. Pedro Biker: Wives and Lovers
On the Spot - A PEEK AT THE DANISH JAZZ SCENE IN THE SIXTIES
ON THE SPOT - A PEEK AT THE DANISH JAZZ SCENE IN THE SIXTIES
"On the Spot vol. 2 contains what I consider the best and rarest music in my collection. I began collecting jazz records some twenty-five years ago, when I came across "Sahib's Jazz Party" at a flea market, and really dug the album. I soon wanted to find out more about the long-lost Danish jazz scene, so I looked up some of the old, real jazz cats and got them to talk. I discovered that the scene here had been small-scale but lively. The development towards modern jazz, what this compilation is all about, had begun already in the early 1950s with bebop, which was represented in Denmark mainly by saxophonist Max Brüel, bassist Erik Moseholm and trumpeter Jørgen Ryg.
Small steps became giant leaps in 1961 with the opening of the first Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen's Store Regnegade. The club developed into an intimate venue, modelled on the jazz clubs of New York and Paris. From the very beginning, prominent American musicians played there, and around the same time, several of them even setteld in Copenhagen, where they found both the musical and the social climate more appealing than at home. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and bassist Oscar Pettiford had lived in Copenhagen already since 1958, and were later joined by saxophonists Sahib Shihab, Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster, and pianist Kenny Drew. Foreign musicians continued to migrate in the 1970s, when, for example, pianists Duke Jordan and Horace Parlan, percussionist Ed Thigpen, saxophonist Bob Rockwell, and band leader Thad Jones joined the Copenhagen jazz scene.
Instead of stifling their Danish colleagues, the American jazz musicians inspired them. In turn, the Danish jazz scene of the sixties is now a source of inspiration to musicians all the way from Tokyo to Turin, and acts like Koop, Nicola Conte, Kyoto Jazz Massive, The Five Corners Quintet, and Povo are all in debt to the unique spirit of Jazzhus Montmartre. This compilation is an attempt to give you a tiny peek into that amazing era.
On the Spot vol. 2 is dedicated to Herluf Kamp Larsen who opened Jazzhus Montmartre on New Year's Eve 1960."
A-P Andreasen