SPACE BIG BAND
The Knudsen/Rudzinskis Space Big Band debut album “SPACE BIG BAND” was released October 22, 2021, on Double Moon Records/Challenge Records.
WWW.SPACEBIGBAND.COM
Nominated BEST JAZZ ALBUM 2021
The Latvian Grammy – The Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards!
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
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: NEW MUSIC & SHOWS 2022
