NIELS LØKKEGAARD NOMINATED AS "NEWCOMMER OF 2008", "BEST JAZZALBUM"OF 2008 AND "COMPOSER OF 2008" AT THE DANISH MUSIC JAZZ AWARDS
LATEST CD "LIGHT AIRBORNE" ON www.nielsloekkegaard.dk
Freely and elegant the music flows on "LIght Airborne"- The latest releasefrom the 28 year old reed-man and composer, Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard. With this release Niels Løkkegaard places himself among the greatest talents on the Danish Jazzscene. A masterpiece of a jazzrelease-Definitly among the best ones of 2007 (Newspaper, Information Chr. Munch Hansen)
-the strength of Denmark's Light Airborne lay in the writing of saxophonist/flautist Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, which created a persuasively melancholic atmosphere, full of nostalgia" (Irish times Ray Cominsky)
-this is a CD, that gets stronger each time you listen to it because of the very personal sound of the music, that reveals it self more and more. On the alto saxophone Løkkegaard has found a platform from which he in the most natural way combines Lee Konitz and Ornette Coleman. Playing the tenorsaxophone Løkkegaard has a more lyrical expression which makes Stan getz and John Coltrane present. (Newspaper, Politiken)
Melody-Sound-Composing from a gifted one. The music is inspired by the great landscape of jazz, but everything is executed with a melodic sense and a will of it..s own (The Danish Counsil of fine arts)
The Danish Art Counsil gives cash-prize to Niels Løkkegaard LIght Airborne for being one of the 2 finest jazz albums of 2007.
* 2004 he won the Ung Comets Jazz competition in Denmark
* 2005 he won the jazz competition Jazzstruggle in Poland with a jury consisting of Kenny Garrett and Billy Harper. Recieves the Sonning-Foundation scholarship for talented musicians.
* 2006 Niels Løkkegaard was chosen by the Danish National Radio (DR) to perform with the European Broadcast Bigband.
* 2007 released "Niels Løkkegaard Light Airborne" and toured in Ireland and Germany and DK.
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