Saxophonist and flautist Julie Kjær’s edgy and thoughtfull
playing and ‘dark, otherworldly imagery’ (Jazzwise) has become incerasingly
evident around Europe, inhabiting ground between composition and free improv.
Since she graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus
DK in 2007, she has played with various jazz groups and ensembles in Denmark
and England.
She is a member of the Danish experimental bigband Blood
Sweat Drum’n Bass, with which she has recorded several cd’s and toured
internationally with amongst others Dave Douglas, Arve Henriksen, Palle
Mikkelborg and Jørgen munkeby.
She has toured internationally with with Django Bates and
his band StoRMChaser and can be heard on his cd: “Spring Is Here (Shall We
Dance?)” (Lost Marble’08).
She has played with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra (then Klüvers
Bigband) on various projects amongst others a tour in Denmark featuring
American trumpeter Terell Stafford.
She plays with London Improvisers Orchestra, Paulo Duartes
Overground Collective and Jeff Chambers variable n-tet.
Own projects:
In 2009 she released her debut cd “Baglæns ind i det forkerte
rum” with her danish quartet.
Currently she is working on a new trio project with two of
the most interesting and inventive improvisers on the english avantgarde scene,
John Edwards and Steve Noble and on a
project with the Danish-English sextet ‘Pierette Ensemble’. The ensemble’s cd
will be released spring 2014.
She is a leader and co-leader of various ensembles and
groups. Amongst others: Pierette Ensemble, Cardboard Whale, Julie som en
engelsk kvinde, Julie Kjær quartet, Musson Kjær Duo, Wigdump, Witte/Kjær Duo.
With her english quintet, Cardboard Whale, she has already
made an impression on the British Jazz-scene. Of her F-IRE session with the
quintet at the Others, London, Joseph Kassman-Todd wrote [Jazzwise, Dec ‘09]:
“Dark, otherworldly imagery was palpable as Kjær on alto
saxophone and Dylan Bates on cornet interwove folkloric melodies like the
unravelling of a malign Heinrich Hoffmann nursery rhyme” … “Kjær’s playing
reached Braxton-esque levels of surreal linguistic expression. This was a
synthesis of dark Scandinavian folk with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.”
She plays with various other duos, trios etc. and has played
with people like: Veryan Weston, Steve Beredsford, Oren Marshall, Chris Biscoe,
John Edwards, Steve Noble, Steve Watts, Gimo Mendes.
Website: http://juliekjaer.com/
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