SPACE BIG BAND
ABOUT
SPACE BIG BAND is a collaboration between Latvian Saxophonist Toms Rudzinskis and Danish Bassist Kenneth Dahl Knudsen. Inspired by deep space and our history of space knowledge – from Galileo to Hawking, with detours in geological time and Kepler’s planet frequencies – this a retelling of our space history in the universal language of music, a contemporary electro-acoustic jazz suite “Space Big Band” for a contemporary jazz big band.
Project premiere on January 17 & 18 at “B-Flat Berlin” with Berlin-based musician collective. Personnel: Malte Schiller (cond.), Shems Bendali, Dima Bondarev, Jakob Sørensen, Johannes Böhmer (tr.), Dustin Drews, Toms Rudzinskis, Julius Gawlik, Ignaz Dinne, Leonie Freudenberger (sax); Nils Marquardt, Jonas Lindh, Andrej Ugoljew, Alistair Duncan (trb); Povel Widestrand, Sebastian Boehlen, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Mathias Ruppnig (rthm sct).
Project website: www.spacebigband.com | www.space.bigband.me
Knudsen/Rudzinskis Space Big Band album “Space Big Band” is due for release in Autumn 2021 under Double Moon Records.
Project is supported by Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation // Toma Rudzinska projekts “Mūzika mūsdienu džeza svītai” tapis ar Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonda mērķprogrammas “Latviešu oriģinālmūzika” atbalstu.
SPACE BIG BAND ON MISSION
FIRST MISSION: January 17 & 18, 2020 at Jazz club “B-Flat” Berlin, Germany
NEXT MISSION: ALBUM RELEASE, TOUR IN DANMARK & JAPAN 2021
