Take the Mol Train: Cæcilie Norby (Dk) & Lars Danielsson (s) at Opus Jazz Club

Cæcilie Norby - vocals
Lars Danielsson - cello, double-bass

A daughter of classical musicians, her mother an opera singer and her father a composer, Danish singer Cæcilie Norby has never cared for musical stereotypes. To her, the melody of a song is the music’s essence and the only attribute to judge a composition – regardless of the genre. As a teenager, she was very much into rock and pop music. She soon made herself a name as a traveller between the genres with her funk-jazz-band, Frontline, and won every Danish jazz award in the early 80s. Norby was the most important Scandinavian singer to combine pop and jazz music and paved the way for the international success of singers like Rebekka Bakken, Silje Nergaard or Viktoria Tolstoy. She was the first Scandinavian singer signed to Blue Note and published four albums on this legendary label. Cæcilie Norby constantly builds bridges with her music: She attracts classical music fans, jazz freaks or pop fans and everyone keen on good melodies....

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Cæcilie Norby - vocals
Lars Danielsson - cello, double-bass

A daughter of classical musicians, her mother an opera singer and her father a composer, Danish singer Cæcilie Norby has never cared for musical stereotypes. To her, the melody of a song is the music’s essence and the only attribute to judge a composition – regardless of the genre. As a teenager, she was very much into rock and pop music. She soon made herself a name as a traveller between the genres with her funk-jazz-band, Frontline, and won every Danish jazz award in the early 80s. Norby was the most important Scandinavian singer to combine pop and jazz music and paved the way for the international success of singers like Rebekka Bakken, Silje Nergaard or Viktoria Tolstoy. She was the first Scandinavian singer signed to Blue Note and published four albums on this legendary label. Cæcilie Norby constantly builds bridges with her music: She attracts classical music fans, jazz freaks or pop fans and everyone keen on good melodies.

She collaborated with many international stars – from Bugge Wesseltoft to Mike Stern, Chick Corea or Kurt Elling. Her most important musical partner and producer of almost every of her solo albums likewise is the most important person in her private life, her husband, double-bass player and cellist Lars Danielsson from Sweden.

The surprising and sometimes even astonishing chamber-jazz program of the duo is based on Norby’s 2013 release, Silent Ways. Denmark’s number one jazz diva and her husband perform instead of jazz standards intimate renditions of songs from such different singers and groups as Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, or John Fogerty, The Cult, The Temptations, Nine Inch Nails or Soundgarden. Melodies and lyrics of well-known pieces reveal themselves in new dimensions through the duo’s performance, gently dissolving former boundaries of pop, jazz and classical music. The almost chamber-musical, tranquil form hinted at by the album's name is classical, as is the emotional expressiveness of her interpretations.

www.caecilienorby.com/

Tickets are available for 1500 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU.

Seating at the Opus jazz Club can only be guaranteed in case of a table reservation. Tel: (+36 1) 216 7894.

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