Frands Rifbjerg

Frands Rifbjerg

Frands Rifbjerg (* 1964 ) is a Danish jazz musician (drums, composition).

Career

Rifbjerg, son of the writer Klaus Rifbjerg , studied at Kongelige Danske Music Conservatory with Thad Jones , where he graduated in 1985 with a diploma as a drummer. In 1998 and 1999 he continued his studies with a stay at the Drummers Collective and The New School in New York City .

As a sideman, Rifbjerg worked with musicians such as Clark Terry , Carla Bley , Steve Swallow , Phil Woods , Carsten Dahl , Jesper Thilo , Doug Raney , Horace Parlan , Tomas Franck , Bent Jædig , Thomas Fryland , Hugo Rasmussen , Henrik Bolberg and Uffe Marcussen .

Since 1996 he took u. a. with Bolberg / Marcussen Kvintet and Per Goldschmidt the album Loneliness & Other Ballads , with Jesper Thilo Kvartet and Bülow / Besiakov Kvartet A Primira Vez , with the Aske Jacoby Band Transfer Power , with Søren Kjærgaard the albums Amfebia and Akustica , with the Carsten Dahl Trio released the albums Blue Trane and Will You Make my Soup Hot and Silver and with the Benjamin Koppel Quintet the albums At Large , Double Up, Please and Evergreen Machine . He can also be heard on records with the singer Thulla ; Tom Lord recorded 26 jazz recordings between 1996 and 2016. He accompanies the singer Marie Fisker with his own quartet.

Rifdbjerg was awarded the Bent Jædig Prize in 2009.

Web links

• portrait
• Frands Rifbjerg at Discogs (English)
• Frands Rifbjerg at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagens Fødselar: Klaus Rifbjerg (kendte.dk, December 15, 2012)
2. ↑ Akustica (discussion of Nordic music)
3. ^ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography
4. ↑ Frands Rifbjerg kvartet feat. Marie Fisker, vokal (2016) ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Jædig-prisen skærer helt ind til benet