About Me
COMPOSER and SAXOPHONE-PLAYER, born april 13th 1955 in Copenhagen Denmark.
Bought my first Beatles-record in -64, later moved on to Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Muddy Waters etc, and eventually got into jazz.
Started painting at the same time , inspired by Picasso,Kandinsky etc. SEE PICS !
Along with my interest in jazz, I also listened to a weekly
radio-program with traditional and classical music from all over the world, and was fascinated by the richness of the possibilities of expression, the variety of textures, the intensity...Started playing saxophone in 1970 , and has played and composed since ( professional from around 1978 ).Some main collaborations:
John Tchicai and "Strange Brothers" ( with Peter Danstrup and Ole Roemer )
"SPACETRAIN" my own quartet with Ben Besiakov, piano, Jesper Lundgaard , bass and Alex Riel , drums,
Atilla Engin Sextet ( sometimes featuring Okay Temiz )
N'UMA BOA ( Chuim, Mozar Terra , Doug Raney , Jens Winther ...)
Jan Kaspersen Quintet ( many different combinations , in later years often with Bob Rockwell or Anders Bergcrantz )after moving to Paris in -85:
"BEKUMMERNIS" by Luc Le Masne
"Orch. National de Jazz" dir. by Denis Badault
Andy Emler "MegaOctet"
QUINTET MOUTIN ( Louis and Francois Moutin, Sylvain Beuf,
Mariane Bitran )
Nguyén Lê " Tales of Vietnam " ( Paolo Fresu, Huong Thanh,
Michel Benita, Francois Verly etc. )
Edouard Ferlet Quintet
DUO and QUARTET with Denis Badault
Recordings and concerts with Ramuntcho Matta;
own groups with among others Xavier Desandre, Richard Bona,
Alain Jean-Marie,Simon Goubert, Tony Rabeson, Billy Hart..after moving back to Denmark:Mostly performing with my own groups, composing a lot, also
started painting again.Some projects:
"Central Earth" a tentet ,five horns and a large rhythm-section.
"Ear Witness" , Paris-based group with Emil Spanyi, keyboards, Linley Marthe, bass and Felix Sabal-Lecco, drums
"New 5-tet " with Bob Rockwell, tenor-sax, flute and clarinet, Peter Dahlgren, trombone, Jeppe Skovbakke or Yasser Pino, bas and Karsten Bagge , drums
"Rainbow Spirit" with Dawda Jobarteh, kora, Thomas Fonnesbech, bass and Ayi Solomon, percusion.
Quartet with Mario Canonge, Michel Zenino and John Betsch.
Another quartet with Franck Tortiller, Yves Torchinsky and Francois Laizeau ("Noctiflore" on Altrisuoni)
Edouard Ferlet "L'Echarpe d'Iris" with Alain Grange(cello)and Xavier Desandre( percussion ).
member of Emil Hess Nonet , Niels Praestholms " Southern Border Pioneers" and "Embla",and of the saxophone-quartet " United Notions". Also playing with Nana Osibios
"Asafo" , Sylvestre Agbedoglu,Alain Apaloo "Api Pipo"( big group) , and SaFaRi with Ramuntcho Matta, guitar-electronics and Fred Dutertre, bass-elctronics.Trio with Paul Brousseau, keyboards-live-electronics and Haakon Berre, drums.NEW ALBUM WITH RAINBOW SPIRIT available on www.cdjazz.com
