Due to the cancellation of the We Jazz 2020 festival, the Nordic Jazz Comets showcase moves to the We Jazz YouTube channel on Wednesday, December 2. Kadi Vija Key Project's show will be streamed with no audience at G Livelab Helsinki, and the four other bands perform in their hometowns around the Nordic states.
The five national jazz organizations in the Nordic countries have run the annual Nordic Jazz Comets career and networking event since year 2000. The recent editions of the event have functioned as a viewpoint to Nordic jazz music and business to international professionals and audiences, as NJC has had the pleasure to partner up with the urban Scope Festival in Berlin, the massive EFG London Jazz Festival and most recently in Paris with Association Jazzé Croisé, the extensive French festival and club network.
At the Nordic Jazz Comets event the five upcoming Nordic bands have had the opportunity to perform to the local audiences and a hand-picked selection of European jazz professionals, such as festival programmers, journalists, label managers and agents. In addition to the showcase, the young musicians and the professionals have participated to activities, such as seminars and networking dinners together, to share knowledge, exchange ideas and strengthen relations between the artists and the business around jazz.
This year, in addition to the showcase stream and webinar, the bands have a chance to work with a new community of Nordic club, venue and festival directors. The network of 14 jazz promotors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are in the core of a pilot project to create environmentally sustainable touring models in the Nordic region. The bands will get an opportunity to plan and test these collaborative tours in 2021.
Read more: www.nordicjazzcomets.com
Nordic Jazz Network presents: Nordic Jazz Comets x We Jazz 2020
Free stream on Wed, Dec 2, at 5:45pm (UTC+2): https://www.youtube.com/user/wejazzhelsinki
at 5.55pm Svaneborg Kardyb (DEN)
Nikolaj Svaneborg – Würlitzer, synthesizer, piano, Jonas Kardyb – drums, percussion
at 6.30pm Post-sun-vision (SWE)
Alice Hernqvist – piano, Aaron Mandelmann – bass, Mario Ochoa – drums
at 7.05pm Ingibjörg Turchi Band (ICE)
Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi – electric bass, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen – drums, Hróðmar Sigurðsson – guitar, Tumi Árnason – tenor saxophone, Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson – piano, keyboards
at 7.40pm Kjetil Mulelid Trio (NOR)
Kjetil Mulelid – piano, Andreas Winther – drums, Bjørn Marius Hegge – double bass
at 8.15pm Kadi Vija Key Project (FIN)
Kadi Vija – vocals, Max Zenger – bass clarinet, Tuomo Dahlblom – guitar, Tuomas Timonen – drums
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