AND THE VOCALS
Om Almost Music
Almost Music is fantastic. Really Enjoyable. It is very original and completely musical.
Sammy Nestico (US), winner of American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers
Jazz are so many things.
It is so many sounds. It is so many colors. It is so many genres.
It can be so beautiful. I can be so horrible. It can be so soulfull. It can be so fantastic.
The voice, text and vocals can be a path to understand all this. That's why we prefer jazz and vocals.
- Mads Pagsberg / Conductor
The Pagsberg Bigband plays a wide range of shows with soloists, star performers from Denmark and from the whole world. We have worked with Sasha Masakowski (US), Anna Kruse (SE), Gary Habermann (US), Subiz Garbor (HUN), Peter Jull Kristensen (Clear Prod.), Lubos Soukup (CZ), Stian Swesson (SE), Ralf Nyqvist (FIN), Radek Wosko (POL), Paolo Russo (IT), Carlos Pérez (CUBA), Mari Fujiwara (JAPAN) Emiliano Sampaio (BRAZIL),Mariam Mandipira (ZIMBABWE), Håkon Erlandsen (NO), Alex Cassanyes (SPAIN), Zoran Scekic (CROATIA), Michele
Corcella (IT), Richard Schwartz (DE), Paul Anques (FRANCE), Daniel
Nosewicz (POL), Patrik Thurner (AUSTRIA), Hans Christian Stephan
(DE), Tupac Mantilla (COLUMBIA) and many more.
To see our shows please klick below.
This album is only released on the internet and is aI tribute to traditional bigbandjazz
The CD was released in 2014. The music is a research of what bigband music can be.
This Christmas CD was produced and recorded by Mads Pagsberg and includes some musicians and singers from The Pagsberg BigBand.
In the live recording below, The Pagsberg BigBand conductor Mads Pagsberg has made a tribute to the all amarican bigband composer and arranger Sammy Nestico.
Teasers for some of our concerts.
The Pagsberg BigBand is a full big band w. 5 Saxes incl. doubling instruments (flute and clarinet), 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, rhythm section (bass, guitar, drums, piano) and - as the only professional orchestra in Denmark - a permanently attached vocal group of four singers. Some projects also include strings and percussionists. The BigBand has a wide repertoire spanning from swing, latin and contemporary big band jazz and their own compositions. The Pagsberg BigBand characterized by professionalism, seriousness, musicially ambition and a high artistic level. The Pagsberg BigBand is an efficient and innovative organization in constant development. The Pagsberg BigBand provides a solid and finished product every time - whether it is touring, concerts, recordings or other projects.
The BigBand want to promote the combination of vocal group and big band. The orchestra wants to explore the boundaries of how a vocal group can be bearer of melody, but also how the vocal group can be included on an equal level with the other instruments and act supportive. The BigBand also want to promote the composition and arrangement business for vocal big band music, partly through workshops and competitions, partly through commissioned work. The orchestra also makes collaborations with dancers, poets, choreographers and other interesting artists.
Mads Pagsberg is leader og The Pagsberg BigBand artistically and managerially. Mads Pagsberg has a degree from 1998 from the University of Copenhagen, department of Musicology. He is teaching as a associate professor at the Department of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen (conducting, music leadership and arrangement). Beside this, he works as a musician (bassist), choral conductor, composer and arranger, and has among other things arranged music for DR Big Band, Chamber Orchestra and NRK's Orchestra. The BigBand has a manager assigned, responsible for marketing and PR in the orchestra, and perform administrative tasks connected with the concerts.
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