{"id":364,"date":"2026-03-20T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenshaack.dk\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:06:11","slug":"forside-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jenshaack.dk\/","title":{"rendered":"Forside"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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danish musician and saxophonist<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Listen to my music on Spotify!<\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jens Haack<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Smokers Lounge<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Carli & Jens Haack<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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About<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Find all albums and work here<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Want to book me for an event?<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can read different concert reviews here<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Smoking cigars is sometimes isolating people. On the other hand Jens Haack’s music is so irresistible that I couldn’t withstand to review this fashionable album. Jens is from Denmark, that Scandinavian region, where musicians like Soren Reiff, Jakob Elvstrom, Chris Minh Doky and Bobby Rickets are coming from. So trust me, when I recommend you this fine album.Jens recorded Smokers Lounge with his old friends, guitarist Mikkel Nords\u00f8, and pianist Ben Besiakow. The last-named facilitated the participation of The Danish Nation Chamber Orchestra.Vernon Duke wrote the jazz standard Autumn In New York in 1934 for the Broadway musical Thumbs Up! often covered by the jazz world. Beauty meets tranquility. A contemplative piece with great elegance.<\/span><\/p>

The title song Smokers Lounge continues this mood on a modern base. A complex flowing groove with an unobtrusive orchestral background. Mikkel Nords\u00f8 excels on acoustic guitar. But remarkable is especially Jens Haack’s widely spreaded instrumentation from muted trumpet to alto sax and baritone sax. <\/span>
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Malcolm Earl Waldron was a versatile jazz pianist and composer, whose most famous piece Souls Eyes is a jazz standard since a longtime. Jens Haack serves a modish rendition in the style of the early years. Alone Together by Arthur Schwartz is part of Flying Colors, a musical Broadway revue in 1932. The right piece for the smooth expansion of the group.<\/span><\/p>

Final tune on this remarkable album is the Bossa Nova piece Haacks Mood. Expressive intonation supports a maximum of atmosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Smokers Lounge offers jazz from the period, when jazz came as close as it has ever come to being America’s popular music. Melodious, cultural and graceful.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Klokken er 22.46 fredag aften. B\u00f8rnene er puttet efter en omgang fredagsslik og Disney Sjov og langsomt indfinder roen sig. Tid til at sm\u00e6kke f\u00f8dderne op p\u00e5 sofabordet, tid til en pibe tobak og tid til refleksion over dagens genvordigheder eller tid til meditation langt, langt v\u00e6k fra byens larm og tempo. Tid til en tur gennem loungen.<\/span><\/p>

Med saxofonisten Jens Haack som projektleder for “Smokers Lounge” og Radio Underholdningsorkestret serveres der her en cocktail af otte numre – fortrinsvis ballader fra det amerikanske standard repertoire – der i en fremragende varm produktion pr\u00e6senterer kvalitets-underholdningsmusik eller – om man vil – verdensklasse-elevatormusik. Det er helt og aldeles gennemf\u00f8rt i sit udtryk og balancerer h\u00e5rfint – men hele tiden vellykket – p\u00e5 kanten til afgrunden. Haack form\u00e5r med sin luftige tilgang til saxofonspillet at give Hans Ulrik kamp til stregen, som saxofonisten med den mest sexede tone herhjemme, mens Besiakov p\u00e5 bl.a. Rhodes samt Mikkel Nords\u00f8 s\u00e6rligt med sin akustiske bossa nova inspirerede rytmeguitar s\u00f8rger for et uimodst\u00e5eligt vuggende musikalsk grundlag.<\/span><\/p>

Og s\u00e5 er der Radio Underholdningsorkestret hvor f\u00f8rst og fremmest de n\u00e6nsomt og i \u00f8vrigt ganske fremragende arrangerede strygere giver udgivelsen det ekstra lydm\u00e6ssige og dynamiske pift, der l\u00f8fter albummet langt, langt, langt over det gennemsnitlige inden for genren. Man kunne have frygtet, at “Smokers Lounge” var kitschet metervare – i stedet har Haack og hans hold beg\u00e5et et album, der emmer af autenticitet og seri\u00f8sitet. Simpelthen fremragende!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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