Friday jazz - on a Wednesday: Gustaf Ljunggren/Emil de Waal

For the season's second Friday jazz on the waterfront, this time on Wednesday 5 July, you can experience the duo Gustaf Ljunggren and Emil de Waal, who mark the release of their third album on this day.

Integrity and curiosity have always been an overriding factor for the duo. They have recorded an atmospheric album with new music on acoustic, electric and electronic instruments, which has already touched, shaken, swung and rocked the audience. Everything was recorded and mixed in New York by Andy Green (Velvet Underground and John Cale).

Emil de Waal states: "The first time I played with Gustaf in 1998, he came with guitar, keyboards, lap steel and trumpet. Quite show-offy, I thought. What I didn't know was that he started out on the violin as a child and had just started at Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen on the saxophone (...) Gustaf is a completely exaggerated wild musician! He can pick up any instrument and in no time get to the heart of how to play it (…) Maybe with the exception of drums, which is my luck."

Gustaf Ljunggren states: "When I started playing with Emil (first time in Lille Vega, January 1998), I quickly became dependent on his company, both on and off the stage. It has had an enormous meaning for me that Emil then introduced me to everyone he knew, and that he recommended me left and right, so that I got into some very challenging and developing projects around the Danish music scene."

Jazz on the waterfront every Friday in July

Come by The Black Diamond every Friday in July, where we present live jazz on the harbour in front of the The Diamond. You can buy snacks and cold refreshments in the Madkartotek's pop-up bar and enjoy the view from the harbour quay while entertaining your ear canals.

Participants

Emil de Waal

Drummer, bandmaster, composer and producer. His professional musical career began when, as a 20-year-old in 1987, he helped found the fusion band "Bagdad Dagblad". Since then, he has collaborated with virtually everything and everyone in Denmark, from the underground to jazz and rock to more pure genres in various TV house orchestras.

Gustaf Ljunggren

Swedish multi-instrumentalist and singer. Gustaf Ljunggren is a trained saxophonist at Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen, where he has lived since 1996. In addition to the saxophone, Gustaf Ljunggren plays i.a. on various guitars and bass guitars, pedal steel guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, keyboards, bass clarinet, viola and flute.