Julie Kjær

Julie Kjær (* around 1985) is a Danish jazz and improvisation musician ( alto saxophone , also flute , clarinet ) who lives in London .

Live and act

From the mid-2000s, Kjær played in the Danish Blood, Sweat Drum 'N' Bass Big Band , with which the first recordings were made ( Live Sessions with Arve Henriksen & Studio Recordings ). In the following years worked in the British jazz and improvisation scene a. a. with Django Bates ( Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?) , 2008), Paal Nilssen-Loves Band Large Unit and the saxophone ensemble Saxoctopus (with Sam Andreae and Rachel Musson, among others ). In 2015 she presented the album Dobbeltgænger ( Clean Feed Records ), recorded at the Vortex Jazz Club in London with her trio of John Edwards and Steve Noble . She played with Paul Dunmall and his Sun Ship Quartet and Alan Skidmore at the John Coltrane 50th Memorial Concert in Cafe Oto (double CD 2019).

Kjær has also been involved in recordings by Signe Bisgaard ( Meander ), Alexander Hawkins , Per Åke Holmlander and the London Improvisers Orchestra . In Copenhagen in the 2010s she played a. a. with Håkon Berre / Hannah Marshall . With Signe Bisgaard she leads the Danish-British Pierette Ensemble (album of the same name in 2014).

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait at the British Music Collection
• Julie Kjær at Allmusic (English)
• Julie Kjær in Discogs (English)