Peter Ole Jørgensen

Peter Ole Jørgensen
Chopenhagen Jazz Festival 2018

Peter Ole Jørgensen (* 1958 in Sorgenfri, Copenhagen ) is a Danish jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , percussion , composition ).

Live and act

Jørgensen has been working in the international jazz and improvisation scene since the 1970s. a. with Evan Parker , John Tchicai , Mats Gustafsson ( Torden Kvartetten ), Herb Robertson / Lotte Anker ( Mokuto ) and David Thomas ( Pere Ubu ). The Wild Mans Band (1997) was created in a quartet with Peter Brötzmann , the Danish bassist Peter Friis Nielsen and initially the trombonist Johannes Bauer ; New editions of this band with Mats Gustafsson, then in 2001 with Pierre Dørge and most recently in 2004 with Fred Lonberg-Holm were recorded on phonograms.

Jørgensen was also a member of the Global Guaranty Orchestra , Cockpit Music and Dane TS Hawk and his Great Mongo Dilmuns . He also wrote music for over 50 films and performances. Jørgensen has worked with Pat Thomas since 1996 when he was playing in Jørgensen's group Sweethearts in a Drugstore (with Alan Silva , Axel Dörner , Phil Durrant and Johannes Bauer ). He heads the label Ninth World Music , on which around 50 releases have appeared so far. In the field of jazz he was involved in 58 recording sessions between 1976 and 2017.

Discographic notes

• Philipp Wachsmann , Peter Ole Jørgensen, Jakob Riis : Expanded Botanics (Ninth World Music, 2004)
• Expanded Botanics: Wachsmann, Jørgensen, Riis: Refugium (Ninth World Music, 2006)
• Mikołaj Trzaska , Rafał Mazur , Peter Ole Jørgensen: Jellyspace ( Not Two Records , 2017)

Web links

• Web presence
• Peter Ole Jørgensen at Allmusic (English)
• Peter Ole Jørgensen at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LUBB (Adam Pultz Melbye / Peter Ole Jorgensen / Pat Thomas). Cafe Oto , October 1, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 23, 2020)