Anne Mette Iversen
Anne Mette Iversen (born March 15, 1972 in Århus ) is a Danish double bass player and composer of modern jazz .
Live and act
Iversen was trained at the cathedral school in her hometown until 1992 and then studied classical piano with Knud E. Sørensen at the local conservatory until 1994 . Then she switched to bass, and from 1995 to 1998 she took lessons from Bo Stief and Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Postgraduate studies at The New School followed in 1998, which she completed in 2001 with a Bachelor in Jazz Performance .
Iversen has lived in New York City since then , where she leads her own groups in the Brooklyn Jazz Underground . She performed with Aki Takase's April 2000 at the JazzFest Berlin . Under her own name she has produced some very ambitious albums for jazz musicians and string quartet , but then also (on This Is My House , 2006) played "straightforward modern jazz in the best hardbop tradition". Their AMI quartet includes saxophonist John Ellis , pianist Danny Grissett and drummer Otis Brown III.
Discographic notes
- On the Other Side / På den anden side (with Ingrid Jensen and others, 2004)
- This Is My House (Anne Mette Iversen Quartet, 2006)
- Best of the West / Many Places (2 CDs, Anne Mette Iversen Quartet, 2008)
- Milo Songs (Anne Mette Iversen Quartet, 2011)
- Poetry of the Earth (2 CDs, 2012)
- So Many Roads (Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life, 2014)
- Round Trip (Anne Mette Iversen Quartet +1, 2017)
- Ternion Quartet (Anne Mette Iversen's Ternion Quartet, 2017)
- Anne Mette Iversen & Norrbotten Big Band Everything in Between (2018)
- Invincible Nimbus (BJU, 2018), with Geoffroy de Masure , Silke Eberhard , Roland Schneider
- Racing a Butterfly (BJU, 2020)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iversen, Anne Mette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarhus |