Drawing on inspiration from legendary Link Ray & Dick Dale, mixed with class acts like Pixies, Bob Hund & Sonic Youth – and with a profound love for the garage scene, El Ray is more than music, it’s deadly fun. ‘Chasing Ray’ is the band’s tribute to former bas player extraordinaire, “El Kid’o”, who died tragically of cancer at the age of 27. With new bass player La Chiquilla in place, El Ray is once again ready to get in character and play bikinis and trunks of every cool cat in town. Ink or no ink, you’re all welcome at El Ray’s surf party and as the band says: ‘As long as you’re into surfing the genre with a twist and more than ready to venture into the night, you’re a Ray’.

New album released August 30th 2010 – Surfs up!

05.07.2010 / 21.00 pm: The music of Viper – album release + live show at Råhuset, Onkel Dannys Plads

08.07.2010 / 21.30 pm: Richard Andersson Sustainable Quartet – album release + live show, Christianshavns Beboerhus

11.07.2010 / 21.00 pm: Thunderstrucks live at Lades Kælder

Here the American pianist George Colligan teams up with some of Denmark’s finest interpreters of modern jazz. All 4 participants have contributed with compositions to this musical meeting, which took place on a cold January day in a little studio in Copenhagen. Space on the CD has also been provided for standards such as Bonislaw/Kapers’ “Invitation”, Horace Silver’s “Peace” and Kurt Weill’s “My Ship”.

Ulrik and Colligan played together in New York about 10 years ago, while Bodilsen has both toured and recorded with Colligan. So this session has been both a happy reunion and - for Anders Mogensen - an unforgettable first encounter. George Colligan has just joined Jack DeJohnette’s new quintet that includes sax player Rudresh Mahanthappa, featured on the Blackout Music release Real People. The Meeting marks the continuation of drummer Mogensen’s collaboration with Blackout Music, which has released several of his latest CDs.

“One of the best kept secrets in jazz, pianist George Colligan has developed an intrepid attitude that goes hand-in-hand with a strong sense of identity…”. Chris Hoven, All About Jazz

Yusef Lateef is unique in the history of jazz. He had his recording debut in 1949 on a session
with Dizzy Gillespie and has gone on to play with many of the heaviest innovators in jazz – like
Count Basie, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Zawinul and Art Blakey,
to name a few. Yet Lateef is an important innovator himself. He is recognized as one of the best
improvisers on the flute, while his saxophone playing is deeply original and respected throughout
the world. Today Yusef Lateef is 89 years old and playing with unabated strength and creativity,
although – due to his exclusiveness – he has not recorded since the year 2000!

Tranberg and Osgood, however, have succeeded where all others have failed – by awakening
Yusef’s interest in recording by posing a musical challenge. Thus the musical point of departure
for this record is the relation between the sound of wood, skin and metal – a form of
instrumentation as old as mankind. It is in the meeting between these primeval sounds that wind
players Lateef and Tranberg on the one side and percussionists Osgood and Rudolph on the
other attempt to create a timeless sound that portrays both Man’s natural limitations as well as
the notion that music is a supernatural entity which enables us human beings to rise above our
inbred inhibitions. All four musicians have composed new material for the recording. The album is coming out on
Blackout Music – a completely extraordinary record release in Danish jazz.