Martin Fabricius

This summer I’ll be playing at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, The Heerup Museum and the New Note Festival, and every concert will be different.
Sauturday the 5th of July I’ll be playing with my trio, Jacob Hatholt (dr), Kasper Tagel (Bass) and special guest Tomas Trullson (alto sax) at Nørrebro Bryghus.
The following night we will have Christian Hougaard Nielsen on bass and guitarist Thomas Maintz will do us company along with artist Bjørn Ignatius Øckenholt who will be doing live drawings to our music.
Sunday afternoon, Juli 7th, pianist Søren Bebe and I will play our first duo concert together at The Heerup Museum. The video above is from one of our rehearsals.
Finally, Mathias Heise, will join the trio with his harmonica as special guest when we play at the New Note Festival at Hillerød Library.
This summer is going to me truly exciting for me, and not two concerts will be the same. I hope you’ll have the opportunity to come and experience all these talented people unfold their magic.

Once in a while a musician comes a long that inspire me to seek out new teritories. Bill Frisell is a such a musician. Bill’s Will is not a typical song from my pen, you could say that it has been written under the influence… the influence of Bill,- hence the title.

This video is from our concert last summer at the Heerup Museum, the first with the wonderful Jacob Hatholt behind the drums.

Martin Fabricius, Lew Soloff, Bryan Campbell, Edward Perez and Claes Brondal

I just returned after a great week i NYC. It was a crazy week with lots of great music. I frequented Smalls, The Garage, Bar 55 and Cornelia Street Cafe, I got to sit in the pit at the Lion King and watch some of the greatest NYC players work,  I went to Boston and visited Berklee college of Music where i studied in the nineties and finally, I got to catch up with my old friend Claes Brondal who runs a jam session in Sag harbor on Long Island. This night he had brought Lew Soloff, who played with Blood Sweat and Tears, Frank Sinatra and everybody worth mentioning. I was lucky enough to have him play on one of my songs, When Sharks Bite,- now that was a great night!

This summer I had the great fortune of being at Danish Jazz’ Summer Session a summer camp for professional jazz musicians. If you look carefully You’ll see me in the top right,- maybe you can spot some of the other players too. Among the teachers this year was Enrico Pieranunzi, Joe Lovano, Tyshawn Sorrey and Lage Lund.

This summer I’ll be playing live at Helsingborg Festival (Sweden), the Heenry Herup Museum, Vor Frelser Cathedral as well as 3 concerts at Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Here’s an overview:

29/6: Martin Fabricius SOLO in Vor Frelser Kirke – medidative music in one of the most beautiful churches in Scandinavia

1/7: Martin Fabricius TRIO feat. Mathias Heise at the Heenry Heerup Museum. Enjoy the music and the beautiful art of Henry Heerup.

5+6/7: Martin Fabricius TRIO feat. Mathias Heise at Nørrebro bryghus: Great beer – great music

14/7: Composers summit with Søren Bebe, Kasper Tagel and Martin Fabricius at Homemade Records. This is the first time we’ll play together. Each of us are bringing 2-3 original compositions to the session…. everything can, and hopefully will, happen.

26/7: Martin Fabricius TRIO feat Mathias Heise at Helsingborg Festival – Sweden (the jazz stage): This is first outdoor concert of the trio – the weather is bound to be nice!

I’m very excited about this summer’s program and hope to see you at one or more of the concerts.

Here’s a new song of mine that we played at Copenhagen Vinter Jazz festival last month. Thanks to everybody who showed up, we had a great night!

February 18th 2012 9 PM at Nørrebro Bryghus
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This is an evening I’m looking extremely forward to. Not only is it great to be invited to play at the Copenhagen Vinter Jazz Festival, the lineup itself is very exciting for me. Christian Hougaard Nielsen, who plays on my first CD, when Sharks Bite, is back. He’s a wonderfully imaginative and extremely gifted bass player who masters the melodic and virtuosic playing style of his former teacher NHØP. Behind the drums is Anders Ramhede. As a jazz drummer, Anders has a rather unusual “day time gig” being rockstar in the Danish rock band Magtens Korridorer…. but armed with a set of brushes and sat behind a small jazz drum kit he works absolute magic. Finally, but not least, the young and extremely talented harmonica player, Mathias Heise, will be joining us. Mathias is this years receiver of the 40.000 kr music award, Rødovre Music Award…. well, the city of Rødovre are lucky to be associated with such talent as are we.
We’ll be playing music from my two CD’s, When Sharks Bite and The Speed of Why as well as some new pieces I’m looking forward to present to you.
I hope to see as many of you as possible for a night of good music, excellent beer and if you’re hungry, great food.

All the best

Martin

This summer I was commissioned to write a piece of music for a Henry Heerup work of art of my choice. I chose the sculpture “Fotografen” (“The Photographer”) from 1963. The photos I took of the guests at the opening I’ve put together in this small video… enjoy:0)

Friday night I played in historic Roskilde Cathedral, the church where all danish royalty are buried. I hope they liked the music:0)

Together with Chris Lavender I have had some really great concerts this past week… their are still two left, one is tonight at Vor Frelser Cathedral and the other one is tomorrow night at Copenhagen Jazz Festival at Nørrebro Bryghus 9 pm. The one tomorrow will be with Anders Ramhede from Magtens Koridorer (drums) and 17 year old Mathias Heise who is an extremely talented harmonica player. I can’t wait!!!