The artist in residence in the month of february is none other than the great Tomasz Dąbrowski (picture)
Praised by DownBeat Magazine as one of Europe’s most versatile and curious players, Polish-born trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski – Scandinavian-based musician and composer makes music that whispers then screams; beautiful, open melodies merging into non-trumpet-like noise.

With nine albums released under his own name and dozens of recordings as a co-leader and sideman, he is considered as one of the most active and gifted trumpeters and composers in Europe. Dividing his time between solo projects and cooperating with some of the finest musicians of the day in Europe, South America and Asia. His strong, instantly-recognizable sound and expressive playing are inspired by Eastern European folk, free jazz and contemporary avant-garde music.

Tomasz has mostly been known for his work with TOM TRIO, Japanese quartet AD HOC, FREE4ARTS, OCEAN FANFARE, and string of concerts S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday / 30 Concerts / 30 Cities. The youngest member of Globe Unity who worked with great artists, such as Tomasz Stańko, Evan Parker, Kris Davis, Michio Yagi, Hiroshi Minami, Tyshawn Sorey, Fredrik Lundin, Maria Faust, Riccardo Del Fra, Michiyo Yagi and Marilyn Mazur. Dąbrowski is a member of a Danish musician-run collective and record label Barefoot Records.

Tomasz Dąbrowski is a musician, composer and educator that has always been rejecting the conventions of lineup choice: starting with a trio without a harmonic instrument, forming duos with drums and a trio with piano and drums to playing solo trumpet concerts. Working with string orchestra, writing for big band and experimenting with dance and theater. Always looking for new sounds, textures and forms of expression, proving that the unconventional has its peculiar colour and is beautiful in its own way.

February 3rd

kl 19:00
THE MONDAY BAND will play a Christian Wolf composition
curated by Hein Westgaard
Albert Cirera- sax
Cosimo Fiaschi- sax
Antti Lähdesmäki – p
Mark Ibsgaard- db
Francesco Toninelli – perc

Yes! Its the Monday Band at 7pm each monday until the end of time. The Monday Band was formed to focus on playing improvised music in a large ensemble and draws its members from the large vibrant group of improvisers in town and passing through. The idea is to have a international band with a open constellation which connects the improvising scene in Copenhagen and performs every week. The band will play minimal compositions, improvising concepts and graphic scores composed and arranged by the members of the band. the band will have a flexible lineup each week but with a core group of artists consistently there. Copenhagen has long needed a place where a steady workshop band could experiment with improvising in a large ensemble and the MondayClub is the place to do it so welcome to THE MONDAY BAND

kl 20:00
Kjetil Mulelid Trio
Kjetil A. Mulelid – piano
Andreas Winther – drums
Bjørn Marius Hegge – double bass

The Kjetil Mulelid Trio has been heavily praised in magazines such as «The Wire», «International Piano Magazine» and «The New York City Jazz Record», for their two albums “Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House» in late 2017 and «What You Thought Was Home»August 30 last year, both released on Norway’s prestigious Rune Grammofon label. The three persons are forming a classic acoustic piano trio focusing on Mulelid’s compositions expertly balancing energetic, rhythmically complex and harmonically rich music with beautiful evocative melodies. While the trio incorporates that sense of calm, unhurried yet constantly unfolding sound world which is distinctively Scandinavian, Mulelid, in concert with bassist Bjørn Marius Hegge and drummer Andreas Winther, effortlessly conjure additional layers, tones, and textures, based upon group improvisations, and informed, in large part, by each others diverse musical experiences. In recent years they have been very active on the European stage and are now on a small northern Europe tour, including the epic 5e!

kl 21:00
Tomasz Dąbrowski residency concert #1
Lotte Anker – saxophones
Tomasz Dąbrowski – trumpet
Peter Friis Nielsen- el bass
Knut Finsrud – drums

To kick off the recidency Tomasz Dąbrowski gathered extraordinary group of European improvisers, people who do not only have their voice but their impact on improvised music of today is without comparison.

kl 22:00
Gropper / Kimestad / Olsson / Osgood
Philipp Gropper – sax
Erik Kimestad – trumpet
Henrik Olsson – guitar
Kresten Osgood – drums

the Osgood / Gropper relationship goes back over a decade. Philipp Gropper has become the most interesting contemporary voice on saxophone in Germany, leading several of the most happening bands. He has performed at the club many a time. Kimestad and Olsson are two of the most versatile and bright improvisers in town. Luckily we see them at the club quite often. Osgood is back at the club, which happens regularly as well. so there is no reason why this shouldnt be one of the many great sets at the club.

kl 23:00
Pombo
Marie Hanssen Sjåvik – vocal
Gus Loxbo – doublebass/saw
Felicia Nielsen – piano
Nils Wall – drums

Pombo means dove in Portuguese, and is also the name of one of Stockholm’s most outspoken jazz groups. Pombo is actually completely free of censorship when it comes to playing jazz, speak up and touch their listeners. This group «mixes poetic-furious, protest pop songs – all sung in Swedish – with fiery sparks of free jazz.»

kl 24:00
Jønsson / Fiil / Carroll
Alex Jønsson-guitar
Lars Fiil-keyboards
Matt Carroll-drums

This trio met nearly a decade ago at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Carroll a resent transplant from Chicago and Jønsson/Fiil mainstays on the Danish music frontier.
Improvised music from a warm place…

February 10th

kl 19:00
THE MONDAY BAND – curated by Alvaro Torres

Ben Rodney- tpt
Håkon Guttornsen -tpt
Albert Cirera- sax
Daniel Soussa- sax
Lorenzo Coloci- flute
Håvard Nordberg Funderud-g
John Arne Ranes -G
Hein Westgaard-g
Luca Sguera – p
Mark Ibsgaard – db
Simon Forchamer – dr

Yes! Its the Monday Band at 7pm each monday until the end of time. The Monday Band was formed to focus on playing improvised music in a large ensemble and draws its members from the large vibrant group of improvisers in town and passing through. The idea is to have a international band with a open constellation which connects the improvising scene in Copenhagen and performs every week. The band will play minimal compositions, improvising concepts and graphic scores composed and arranged by the members of the band. the band will have a flexible lineup each week but with a core group of artists consistently there. Copenhagen has long needed a place where a steady workshop band could experiment with improvising in a large ensemble and the MondayClub is the place to do it so welcome to THE MONDAY BAND

kl 20:00
Eocæn

Hannah-Rae Hampson: Cello
Lars Kivig: Modular Synths

Looking back 33 million years to a time where life as we know it had yet to exist, experimental Danish duo Eocæn seeks inspiration from the distant past to forge abstract prehistoric soundscapes in an instrumental combination with seemingly limitless possibilities.

kl 21:00
Tomasz Dąbrowski residency concert #2

Tomasz Dabrowski – balkan horn
Kasper Tranberg – trumpet
Kasper Tom – drums, percussion

If you consider yourself a music enthusiast of any format in Copenhagen you have met Nils Bo Davidsen, who besides being a world class bassist is also a celist. For the second concert of the recidency, Dąbrowski presents a group with Kasper Tom and Nils Bo Davidsen, improvising the soundtrack of a new decade.

kl 22:00
Ventil

Malte Nordtorp – Trompet, Sang, Laptop
Benjamin Nørholm – Synths, Sang
Benjamin Gower-Poole – Bas, sang

this trio calls their music indiejazz. if you want to know what that is, you should come. and if you already know what that is you will most likely come anyway

KL 23:00
The Map: Hjøllund / Kimestad / Kjær / Larsen / Gąsiorek

Jeppe Hjøllund – trumpet
Erik Kimestad – trumpet
Rasmus Kjær Larsen – keys
Lise Larsen – drums
Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek – drums

United trumpets of Skagerrak. United drums of Poland and Jylland. Electric sirens of a Turist amusement. A sonic ferry from Świnoujście to Ystad. Three more bridges to get to Skagen. Festen fra vesten. Madpakke med kabanosy. First Time Live @ 55.669221,12.561014

kl 24:00
Cuore e Polmoni

Luca Curcio : bass, objects, vocals
Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek : drums, percs. objects

Essential, earthy, joyful and primitive, a journey to the bones of the music and back through heart and lungs.
This is the absolute first time of a new Copenhagen based duo formed by polish drummer Szymon Gasiorek and italian bassist Luca Curcio.
They are two explosive creative forces who share a strong human connection but never (!!!) performed together.
Their names are becoming a steady presence into the creative music scene of Copenhagen (and beyond) and hopefully this is going to be the starting point of a long lasting collaboration.

February 17th

kl 17:00
Djbfa Network Talks #12 – Kresten Osgood talks to Axel Dörner!

The highly successful Djbfa Network Talks series continues on february 17th at 5pm Kresten Osgood will talk to the unique trumpet innovator and improvisor, Axel Dörner
Dörner is one of the most original and virtuosic improvisers in Europe. He has lived in Berlin since 1994 and is an integral part of the Berlin scene of new improvisational and experimental music. Besides playing solo and in his trio TOOT (with Phil Minton and Thomas Lehn), he has played with artists such as Otomo Yoshihide and in groups such as Die Anreicherung (with Christian Lillinger, Håvard Wiik, and Jan Roder), Ig Henneman Sextet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory-Band, Hedros (with Mats Gustafsson, Günter Christmann, Barry Guy, and others), and the London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra. A versatile musician, he is also able to work in idiomata such as bebop. He played on pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s album Monk’s Casino, featuring interpretations of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk.

its free for djbfa members to attend, but you have to sign up with kresten osgood at osgood@funky.dk

kl 19:00
Dörner / Lea / Lyregaard Trio

Axel Dörner (DE): Trumpet
Marthe Lea (NO): Saxophones, clarinets, flutes etc.
Birgitte Lyregaard (DK): Vocals

…Explores Texture, sound and communication within the frame of freely improvised music. This brand new trio first met at the Jyderup summit for improvisers in May 2019. The off set being the improvisational concepts of Axel Dörner, the trio performs a live play that grows, evolves and shifts back and forth from silence into sound, around a whole lot of sound and back into almost nothing at all. The individual paths of the players emerge, cross, float along and dissolve again, like rivers around rocks. Sometimes with, sometimes against the current.
There will be notes, words, noises and poises. Hearts, risks, urges and ears. As Dörner/Lea/Lyregaard performs their sonor poetry that will be composed, executed and perceived simultaneously on the spot and only once in the whole era of planet Earth exactly like this.

kl 20:00
Gustaf Rosenberg Italian band

Paolo Petrecca (IT) trumpet
Hannes Bennich(SE) alto sax
Gustaf Rosenberg(SE) piano
Ingrid Schyborger(SE) bass
Mattia Galeotti (IT) drums

Gustaf Rosenberg Italian band is a Swedish/Italian collaboration playfully approaching originals. very exiting indeed!

kl 21:00
Tomasz Dąbrowski residency concert #3

Fredrik Lundin – tenor saxophone
Tomasz Dąbrowski – trumpet
Mariusz Prasniewski – double bass
Rune Lohse – drums

Jazz is the art of being in the moment, shaping reality with improvisation while telling stories. Here is a brand new quartet created by Tomasz Dąbrowski for the recidency performance, featuring the legendary saxophonist and composer Fredrik Lundin, Rune Lohse – brilliantly versatile drummer and virtuoso Polish basíst – Mariusz Prasniewski.

kl 22:00
Randi Pontoppidan / Christian Rønn

Randi Pontoppidan – voice, live electronics, bells
Christian Rønn – würlitzer piano, fx

The album Headspace came together in the aftermath of a string of jams recorded in Rønn ́s studio in the outskirts of Copenhagen during the last half of 2018. Both being the seasoned improvisers, it became apparent that this musical meetings brought about something special, that we felt compelled to pursue. A new conversation, a new language. There ́s a warmness in the combination of the amplified Würlitzer Piano and the heady vocal-improvisations, but also fierce electronics in hefty performances that really takes off to the hemisphere.

kl 23:00
Kresten Osgood / Axel Dörner – the duo!

Axel Dörner – trumpet
Kresten Osgood – drums

be there when these two meet in a duo!.

kl 24:00
Kresten Osgood Quintet

Erik Kimestad – trumpet
Mads Egetoft – sax
Jeppe Zeeberg – piano
Matthias Petri – bass
Kresten Osgood – drums

its our favorite band and they are back. ready to rock your would of modern jazz once more.!!

February 24th

kl 19:00
THE MONDAY BAND – currated by Luca Sguera

Albert Cirera -sax
John Arne Ranes-guitar
Eros Pollaro guitar
Margaux Oswald- piano
Luca Curcio – double bass
Francesco Toninelli percussion
Simon Forchamer – drums

Yes! Its the Monday Band at 7pm each monday until the end of time. The Monday Band was formed to focus on playing improvised music in a large ensemble and draws its members from the large vibrant group of improvisers in town and passing through. The idea is to have a international band with a open constellation which connects the improvising scene in Copenhagen and performs every week. The band will play minimal compositions, improvising concepts and graphic scores composed and arranged by the members of the band. the band will have a flexible lineup each week but with a core group of artists consistently there. Copenhagen has long needed a place where a steady workshop band could experiment with improvising in a large ensemble and the MondayClub is the place to do it so welcome to THE MONDAY BAND

kl 20:00
Julius Windisch / Niklas Fite / Szymon Gasiorek
Julius Windisch – piano
Niklas Fite – guitar
Szymon Gasiorek – drums

Windisch is back at the club! this time with two of the strongest improvisors in town. look out, kid – its something you did!

kl 21:00
Tomasz Dąbrowski residency concert #4 Ocean Fanfare
Sven Dam Meinild – alto sax
Tomasz Dąbrowski – trumpet
Richard Andersson – el bass
Peter Bruun – drums

This free-led quartet from Copenhagen specialises in contemporary jazz and reflects the current trends in Scandinavian music. Building on the traditions of european improvised and free music as well as American jazz traditions, the ensemble is made up of young artists residing in Scandinavia. Ocean Fanfare delivers ambitious music aimed at a wide audience.

kl 22:00
IL MARE
Elia / Electricity
Piotrowicz / Electricity
Gąsiorek / Percussion
Łagodziński / Air
Corsini / Waves

«Perché il mistero sta anche in questa duplice lettura simultanea di un evento che tuttavia non si colloca né nell’una né nell’altra delle due versioni»
M. Blanchot, La follia per eccellenza – I WILL JUST ADD IN ENGLISH..THIS IS A TOTAL MONSTER BAND. BE THERE!!!

kl 23:00
Epli + Gianluca Elia (DK/NO/IT)
Oda Dyrnes – violoncello
Tyge Jessen – alt trompet
Gianluca Elia – mixer

Epli is the band Oda and Tyge founded the day they met. Their goal is to invent and research a fluid and natural language for this somewhat awkward combination of two instruments. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as contemporary classical composers, nordic folk music, electronic noise and newage meditation muzak.
Each month this spring, under the name « Epli + », they invite musical friends to join their world and perform at Mandagsklubben. This time its Gianluca Elia: a well-known and beloved face and sound on the Copenhagen scene. He will amaze and amuse anyone lucky enough to feast their ears on the music that he produces.

kl 24:00
Something amazing will happen here!