JB & The Huggeli - Live Smukfest 2024 (2025) [CD Rip]

Personnel:
Jesper Bjarnesen : Guitar, Vocalks
Hanse Jensen: Tenor Saxophone
Jais K. Eriksen: Bass
Oscar ”Big O” Eriksen: Drums
Josef Baumgartner: Piano, Organ

JB & The Hüggeli started as a trio and was formed by invitation in 2015 to play “Frokostblues” at Eydes Kælder in Horsens on Saturday afternoons. This time under the name Det Hyggelige Bluesband. These Saturdays were a success, and so was Det Hyggelige Blues Band, and the trio gradually began to rise from the basement to jobs at other venues with a preliminary prestigious climax in 2018, when the trio was on the program at the Gothenburg Blues Festival. In the fall of 2020, Hanse Jensen – tenor sax, was incorporated into the band, and the recordings for the debut album “Thank You Blues” were completed,

which was released on 1/12/2020 to a wide range of great reviews and airplay on blues radio shows all over the world.

The album contains 11 original songs in traditional Chicago and Texas blues style with a solid swing. The album, as well as the follow-up presentation tour, also featured Kim Nedergård on piano. At the same time, the band changed its name to JB & The Hüggeli.

In 2023, the band will release the single “Not From Texas” with a notable guest appearance by Texas Blues Guitar legend Alan Haynes. In 2024, the band occasionally expanded to a “Deluxe Edition”, with pianist and organist Josef Baumgartner, and played at SMUKFEST with guitarist Henrik Skriver as a special quest. On 15/4/2025, the band's 2nd studio album “The Blues Supadupa” was released. On 3 of the album's 11 tracks, “The Hüggeli Horns & Sängerknaben” can be heard, which is Finn Odderskov – baritone saxophone, Ole “Fessor” Lindgreen – trombone, Gunnar Lautrup – trumpet, Hanse Jensen – tenor saxophone, Nikolai Bøgelund – trombone, Jens Klüver – alto saxophone.

The band's members have a completely unmanageable CV, and draw on up to 50 years of experience in Danish jazz, rock and blues, with names such as Kims Bacon, Shotgone, Max Wolff & The Bluestones, Humble Men, Big O & The Blue Quarters, Klüvers Big Band, Bourbon Street Jazz Band, The Billyboppers, Skriver Bjarnesen Band, Tumbleweeds, Big Martin, Michelle Birkballe and others.

On 4/8/2025, the band's 3rd album was released. The concert at Smukfest 2024 contains a mix of songs from the two studio releases, as well as a handful of cover songs, which are also part of the band's repertoire. The title of the album is self-explanatory. Enjoy!