Music:
Member Since: 3/7/2007
Band Website: kontrabas.dk
Band Members: Jens Jefsen
Acoustic Bass
Uffe Steen
El. Guitars
Jukkis Uotila
Drums
Dave Wilczewski
Saxophones
From 1987 to 2002:
Alex Riel on drums
and various guest players
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Influences:
In the first place:
NHØP, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Eddie Gomez.
Later:
Ron Carter, Miroslav Vitus, Marc Johnson, Dave Holland, Gary Peacock, Christian McBride, Larry Grenadier, John Patitucci, Avishai Cohen.
Electric bass players like:
Alphonso Johnson, Paul Jackson, Jaco Pastorius . . . . . . and lots of other bassplayers, drummers, pianoplayers, guitarplayers, hornplayers etc. . . . .
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Sounds Like:
Jens Jefsen solo albums
and albums with Uffe Steen:
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Her er nogle få af Jefsens talrige indspilninger
Oldies fra LP-tiden,
med Jefsen på bas
Quartet Situation at Holbæk Jazzclub
Acknowledged as being among the elite bass players in Denmark, Jefsen has with his wide ranging stylistic background, reaped kudos for his lyrically attentive personal style of playing.
Since the 70's Jefsen has had an infinite number of gigs in Denmark with American jazz musicians living in Denmark and abroad. Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Zoot Zims and Al Cohn are just a few of the people he has performed with.
Jefsen has also, during the last 40 years, played with many trendsetting Danish groups.
Most recently he has performed on the Danish scenes with musicians such as Bob Rockwell, Thomas Clausen, Alex Riel, Bob Mintzer, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Samuels, Paquito D'Rivera, Lars Jansson, Deborah Brown, Carmen Bradford, Matt Harris, Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, Dennis Mackrel, John Abercrombie, Lars M..ller, Adam Nussbaum, Phil Markowitz, Jukkis Uotila, Bill Warfield, Ken Peplowski and many others.
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