BAND INFO >NEANDER’S JAZZ BAND (DENMARK)
NEANDER’S JAZZ BAND (DENMARK)
Neanders Jazzband started in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark in 1978 by the clarinet player Hans Christian Rosendal. Soon after he had a six piece band with clarinet, trumpet, trombone, banjo/guitar, doublebas, and drums. From the beginning the musical style was the old jazzmusic with inspiration from Kid Ory, George Louis, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, etc. During the years the repertoire has extended with different music styles, but still with the major inspiration from the good old traditional jazz.
Neanders Jazzband has been playing all over Denmark – in clubs and festivals. The band has also been on tours in Germany, England and Sweden.
Festivals in Denmark:
Riverboat Jazzfestival - Silkeborg from 1988 onwards
Romoe Jazzfestival – Romoe
Livoe Jazzfestival – Livoe
Femoe Jazzfestival – Femoe – from 1990 onwards
Tunoe Jazzfestival – Tunoe
Middelfart Jazzfestival – Middelfart
Haderslev Jazzfestival – Haderslev
Tonder Festival –Tonder - from 1986 and every year onwards
Festivals, concerts outside Denmark:
Göteborg Jazzfestival – Sweden
Bedford – Great Britain
Kiel, Flensburg, Hamburg – Germany
French Quarter Festival, New Orleans - USA
For seven years the band worked together with the famous american gospel- and jazzsinger Lilian Boutté and together they did many concerts in churches as well in clubs.
Neanders Jazzband received the “Femoe Price 2000 “ – a danish jazz award.
The band has released 5 CDs:
Oh, Didn´t He Ramble (1993)
Bugle Call (1996)
Jubilee – feat. Lilian Boutté (1998)
Gospelnight – feat. Lilian Boutté (1998)
Gumbo (2003)
From the program of the Tonder Festival 2007:
“ The lasting popularity of Neanders Jazz Band can only be explained by their drive, their energy, their obvious delight in playing jazz, and their entertaining stage performance. Neanders Jazz Band play tunes from the repertoire of the old jazz giants, Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Sydney Bechet, but in recent years they have added their own original arrangements of swing, lazz-rock and rytm´n´ blues tunes. A vast, loyal fan base built up over the years support Neanders Jazz Band, and again this year, trad. jazz lovers can hear there heroes as they play there way through Tonder perched atop the veteran fire engine, on the Square on Friday and Saturday, and at the Sunday´s traditional street parade.”
The band is known for their great musical enthusiasm and energetic stage performance and they will always try to live up to their slogan:
- because music shall be alive…
