East Coast Jazzband - Our Love Is Here To Stay (2009)

Birgitte Laugesen, vocal; Gunnar Lautrup, trumpet and flugelhorn; Niels Barfod, sopran- and altsax; Storm Kleist, trombone; Rasmus Stenholm, piano; Paul Engberg Pedersen, drums; Poul Nyholm, double-bass.

It all started in Paul’s poultry house outside Ormslev. The year was 1991. Here the foundation for East Coast Jazz Band was made. For long time the old fellows from Cotton Club Jazzband Niels Barfoed and Paul Engberg, had infested the music scene of Jutland and now the dream orchestra was to be realized! One thing characterized the band from the beginning: The desire for playing good music and deliver good entertainment more than please narrow style ideas. The inspiration came from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and all the other old. Added jazz of the 30’s New Orleans and a little of the 40’s and 50’s Chicago Blues. Today the orchestra is still playing a broad range of the best within jazz, swing and blues. Mixed with evergreens in new and beautiful arrangements. Known as persuasive ensemble music spiced up with extraordinary soli. Played with real enthusiasm and a musical desire, which can wake up any audience. The orchestra has played in all of Denmark. At festivals, in jazz clubs, private arrangements. Always good for a swinging evening for people who likes to dance. But never playing and working better than now.