• High thickness cardboard with opaque laminated cover
• Edition of 300 copies

Founded in 1969 by the pianist Ole Mathiessen, the bassist Henrik Hove, the saxophonist Jesper Nehammer, and drummer Jon Finsen, Tordenskjolds Soldater was one of the great - albeit short-lived - projects in Copenhagen’s thriving scene of free improvisation and jazz of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Across the proceeding decade or so, Denmark had provided shelter for some of the most radical voices in free jazz from across the globe, with the famous venue, Jazzhus Montmartre, providing a site for creative ferment for Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, and numerous others. But, as the 1960s wained and the '70s dawned, the international vanguard began to spend less time in the country, opening space and need for a young generation of Danish improvisers to cultivate their own scene. Answering the call, a new, grass roots arts venue, the Reprise Theatre, opened in the Copenhagen suburb of Holte in 1967, providing space for open, unrestricted creativity. It was from this context that each member of Tordenskjolds Soldater emerged, before coming together formally in 1969.

PERSONNEL:
JESPER NEHAMMER - (tenor sax)
OLE MATTHIESSEN - (piano)
HENRIK HOVE - (bass)
JON FINSEN - (drums)

TRACKS:
A1. Native Land
A2. Memoires of Isadora Duncan
A3. Dah Dah

B1. Labour of Love
B2. Old Jewish Song
B3. The Z Song