Peter Bruun (musician)

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Peter Bruun 2012 in the Unterfahrt jazz club

Peter Bruun (* 1979 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish jazz musician ( drums , percussion , composition ).

Live and act

Bruun started taking music lessons at the age of three and turned to drums at an early age. At the age of 18 he began his studies at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. From the 2000s he worked in the Danish and international jazz scene in the formations Mold , Buffalo Age (album 2007, with Chris Speed , Kasper Tranberg , Nils Davidsen ), in the Trio WBZ (with Jesper Zeuthen , Jonas Westergaard ), in Simon Toldam ORKestra STORK, in the big band Little Red Big Bang and in the trio of Django Bates , with whom he recorded three albums. In 2013 he released his debut album Unintended Consequences (ILK Music), on which Eivind Lønning , Torben Snekkestad , Søren Kjærgaard and Jonas Westergaard had collaborated. In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 2000 and 2014. With his band project Peter Bruun's All Too Human (with Kasper Tranberg, trumpet, cornet, Marc Ducret , guitar and Simon Toldam, synthesizer) he recorded the album Vernacular Avant-garde ( Ayler Records , 2018).

Discographic notes

Peter Bruun
Aarhus Jazz Festival 2018
  • Mold: Rotten in Rodby (2007), with Stephan Meinberg, Anders Banke, Mark Solborg
  • WBZ: Prima Ballerina (ILK Music, 2007)
  • Django Bates: Beloved Bird (Lost Marble, 2009) with Petter Eldh
  • Little Red Big Bang: Little Red Big Bang (ILK, 2011)
  • STORK: Stork (ILK Music, 2011)
  • Jacob Anderskov : Strings, Percussion & Piano (ILK, 2012)
  • Mark Solborg Trio Feat. Herb Robertson & Evan Parker : The Trees (ILK, 2013)
  • Samuel Blaser : Taktlos Zurich 2017 (ECM, 2017), with Marc Ducret
  • Vernacular Avant-garde (2018), with Kasper Tranberg, Marc Ducret, Simon Toldam

Web links

Commons : Peter Bruun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 2, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Bruun, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish jazz musician (drums, percussion, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen