Here's a video of me with my man Luther Thomas' smoking band at the famous Christiania Jazzclub. Luther is a really happening player and a great crazy dude too. Towards the end of my solo I get the idea that I want to quote some Charlie Parker blues heads, and I come up with 3. Come down to the club and there's a free danish Øko Thy beer waiting for ya if you can name all 3! :-))
DEBUT RECORD OUT NOW...MADS THORSEN'S STRINGS & THINGS Hi everybody out there! I've put up here a few selections of a coming cd with my new 2 guitar line up. Niclas, on guitar, recorded with a.o. Matthew Garrison and Adam Nussbaum. Martin on drums did work with a.o. Yusef Lateef and New Jungle Orchestra. Guffi played with everybody, starting out in Mercer Ellington's band when he was 19.
"Song For Leo" has Niclas playing the first solo on his es335 while I play the 2nd on my great old red strat.
"Point The Way" is based on an old standard, Irving Berlin's "The best thing for you is me". I'm grabbing the tele for the first solo. "Soenderho" is Niclas on slide and me on the strat and I had the guts to stomp on the wah during my solo.
"Det' min hylde" is a ballad of mine. We recorded the whole album to analog tape, and in this particular song the tape ran out towards the end! I decided to just keep it like that. God's will works in mysterious ways, and resigning to fate will sometimes be just the right way to go...
"Marshmallow" is me doing some noodling, a tribute to the late great Warne Marsh.
"26-2" is me noodling some more, with a tele, an es335, a '63 barney kessel that I should've kept, and a couple of acoustics. It's the trane tune, but fairly tinkered with.
Mads, thanks for adding me--my musical tastes very wide'nwhile I don't play jazz, I sure dig it:-) you've super hot/cool/lowdown soundz:-) blessings...Laurieleec
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