THOMAS CLAUSEN
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop, Latin Jazz, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Third Stream, Hard Bop • Denmark

Thomas Clausen born 1949 Pianist, composer & arranger According to Gyldendals “The Great Danish Encyclopaedia”: “ Danish jazz piano player and composer, who inspired by both jazz and recent European composition from the beginning of the 1980’s has become one of the important musicians in European jazz. He’s equally appreciated as a solo piano player, trio leader and accompanist for leading American musicians. Further he has worked as a composer for large ensembles in a way, that reveals Alban Berg as a main influence.” So far for the encyclopaedia…..But there are other things to say about Thomas Clausen. He grow up in a musical home. Both parents were teaching mathematics, but while the father was playing a strong and able jazz piano in swing style, the mother came from a family of singers. The apple – or the apples – don’t fall far from the tree as you say; so both Thomas ad his brother read more...