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John Sund (born 1957 in Copenhagen) is a Danish guitarist and composer. He has played and recorded with many leading musicians, including Thomas Clausen, The Danish Radio Big Band, Palle Mikkelborg, Bo Stief, Lelo Nika, Vincent Nilson, and Creme Fraiche Big Band.
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Jim McNeely is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and faculty.
Richard Bently Boone was an American jazz trombonist and scat singer.
Beady Belle is a Norwegian jazz band founded by Beate S. Lech with her bassist and husband Marius Reksjø, after having been encouraged to make a record by Bugge Wesseltoft at Jazzland Recordings.
Gøtudanskt is a variety of Danish spoken in the Faroe Islands by Faroe Islanders. Its pronunciation is influenced by Faroese, the usual native language of Gøtudanskt speakers.
Erik Oluf Tuxen was a Danish big band leader, composer and arranger, who worked for most of his life in Denmark. From 1936 until his death by cancer on 28 August 1957 he was conductor at the Danish National Symphony Orchestra of Danish Radio.
Palle Mikkelborg is a Danish jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and record producer.
Børre Dalhaug is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums), music arranger and music instructor.
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger who spent several years with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie. He was musical director for albums by Cannonball Adderley, Dinah Washington, Oscar Peterson, and Buddy Rich.
Sahib Shihab was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist. He variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Tadd Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, John Coltrane and Quincy Jones among others.
"Little Fighter" is a song by American-Danish glam metal band White Lion and was the first single released from the 1989 album Big Game.
"Day Dream" is a jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn with lyrics by John Latouche and written in 1939. It was first recorded by saxophonist Johnny Hodges and his ensemble on November 2, 1940. Duke Ellington was credited as co-composer on the label of the original 78 RPM release, though he is not generally considered to be one of the song's creators.
Lars Winther is a Danish pianist, composer, producer and arranger. He released the debut-album LIVE_2005 with Lars Winther Trio in 2005, followed by the double-disc CD/DVD Nordic By Nature in 2007 — receiving many positive reviews for the latter, as well as distribution throughout Europe and in parts of Asia. In terms of potential, he has been compared to the Norwegian Tord Gustavsen
Ib Niels Carl Glindemann Nielsen was a Danish jazz musician and the leader of the Ib Glindemann Orchestra. Saxophonist Stan Getz frequently appeared with them as a guest star when he was in Europe.
Eternity is the seventh studio album by Danish soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock. It was released on October 27, 2008 through MLTR Music and At:tack Music. This is the first Michael Learns to Rock album to have been solely produced by Mikkel Lentz, except the tracks "Family Tree" and "Lonely Satellite". "Family Tree" was previously recorded by Danish pop duo Brother+Sister for their second album, Sonny vs. Gigi in 2002. The song "It's Gonna Make Sense" was a very popular hit in the Philippines since this was the trademark song for every eviction in Pinoy Big Brother: Double Up, and in India, it featured on the soundtrack to the Indian film Welcome M1LL10NS. The song "Sweetest Surprise" reached number one in Thailand.
Danish jazz dates back to 1923 when Valdemar Eiberg formed a jazz orchestra and recorded what are thought to be the first Danish jazz records in August 1924. However, jazz in Denmark is typically first dated to 1925, when bandleader Sam Wooding toured in Copenhagen with an orchestra. This was the first time most Danes had heard jazz music. Some prominent early Danish jazz musicians include Erik Tuxen who formed a jazz band and was later named conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Bernhard Christensen, an art music composer who incorporated jazz elements into his pieces, and Sven Møller Kristensen, who was the lyricist for many of Bernhard Christensen's pieces and who wrote a book on jazz theory in Danish.
The Danish Radio Big Band, often referred to as the Radioens Big Band is a radio ensemble and big band founded in Copenhagen in 1964 at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).
Big Fat Snake is a Danish pop/rock music group that was founded in 1990.
Aage Tanggaard is a Danish jazz drummer and record producer. A pupil of Michael Carvin and Ed Thigpen, he has been a member of several notable bands; including Radiojazzgruppen, Ernie Wilkins' Almost Big Band and the Hamburg-based NDR Big Band. He has also performed and recorded extensively, beginning from 1982, with Stan Getz, Roland Hanna, Michal Urbaniak, Horace Parlan, Duke Jordan, Chet Baker, Paul Bley, Lee Konitz, Dexter Gordon, Clark Terry and Doug Raney among other notable artists. He is the founder of Audiophon Recording Studio where he works as a producer.
Lise Cabble is a Danish singer and songwriter. Cabble has written more than ten songs for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and Eurovision Song Contest performers. Notable songs include the 1995 Danish song Fra Mols til Skagen and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Only Teardrops.
Reddi is a Danish-Swedish all-female pop-rock band. The band represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "The Show".