JESPER LUNDGAARD
Genres: Hard Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Third Stream, Post Bop • Denmark

Jesper was born in 1954 in the Danish town of Hillerød. He started playing the guitar but at the age of sixteen he changed to the double bass. For two years he studied music at the University of Aarhus. During this period he started playing with different groups in the province of Jylland and at the legendary jazz club Takskægget he got the chance to play with Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin and others. He became a professional musician at the age of twenty-one. Since 1976 he has performed with most of the top American jazz musicians visiting Denmark, among others Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Dexter Gordon, Pepper Adams, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. In 1978 he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band for a three month European tour. He settled down in Copenhagen in 1979 and since then he has appeared on more than 400 read more...