Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra at Copenhagen Jazz Festival at Den Sorte Diamant

Anniversary concert with Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra!
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra have enriched the Danish music scene ever since the 1980s. Now the orchestra is celebrating its 40th anniversary at The Black Diamond, where everything suggests there is going to be a rip-roaring concert, full of new works and improvisations plus a number of old jungle hits.
With inspiration from both bigband jazz and world music, the ensemble, with guitarist and composer Pierre Dørge at the helm, has created its own distinctive musical universe. Particularly known for its live performances, where a spontaneous presence is created by the interaction between the conductor, the musicians and the audience. The music, full of contrasts, switches from painful beauty to effervescent joie de vivre, from strict, thoroughly composed sequences to free-wheeling, imaginative numbers that are carried forward by raw, rhythmic grooves....

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Anniversary concert with Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra!
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra have enriched the Danish music scene ever since the 1980s. Now the orchestra is celebrating its 40th anniversary at The Black Diamond, where everything suggests there is going to be a rip-roaring concert, full of new works and improvisations plus a number of old jungle hits.
With inspiration from both bigband jazz and world music, the ensemble, with guitarist and composer Pierre Dørge at the helm, has created its own distinctive musical universe. Particularly known for its live performances, where a spontaneous presence is created by the interaction between the conductor, the musicians and the audience. The music, full of contrasts, switches from painful beauty to effervescent joie de vivre, from strict, thoroughly composed sequences to free-wheeling, imaginative numbers that are carried forward by raw, rhythmic grooves.
For this special evening, the orchestra has invited the singer Josephine Cronholm (DK/SE), the flautist Shashank Subramanyam (India) and the Mandinka troubadour Dawda Jobarteh (Gambia) up onto the stage.

The programme includes fantasies by Per Nørgaard, Duke Ellington, Irene Becker, Pierre Dørge etc.

40 år i junglen: Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra!

Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra har beriget den danske musikscene med originalitet, musikalsk legesyge og humor siden 1980’erne.
I 2021 fejrer Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra sit 40 års jubilæum på Den Sorte Diamant med et brag af en koncert, spækket med nye værker og improvisationer samt enkelte gamle jungle hits.
Med inspiration fra både bigbandjazzen og verdensmusikken har orkestret, med guitarist og komponist Pierre Dørge ved roret, skabt deres helt eget musikalske univers.
Særligt kendte er de for deres live-optrædener, hvor der i samspillet mellem dirigenten, musikerne og publikum opstår et spontant nærvær. Den kontrastrige musik forvandler sig fra smertelig skønhed til sprudlende glæde, fra stramme gennemkomponerede sekvenser til fabulerende frie forløb, der bæres frem af rå rytmiske ”grooves”.
På denne særlige aften inviterer orkestret sangerinden Josephine Cronholm (DK/SE), fløjtenisten Shashank Subramanyam (Indien) og Mandinka-troubaduren Dawda Jobarteh (Gambia) på scenen.

Programmet består bl.a. af fantasier af Per Nørgaard, Duke Ellington, Irene Becker, Pierre Dørge m.fl.

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