Late Night Jazz Jam m. Thor Johansen (DK)

For this year's Aarhus Jazz Festival, drummer Jens Emil Jensen has gathered some fantastic musicians to host the festival's official jazz jam at HeadQuarters. In addition to the official jam hosts, there will be fantastic guest musicians to open each jam, followed by an open jazz jam until 2 am, when all jazz cats are welcome to jam on stage!

Danish and international musicians from near and far will come together and form new and exciting constellations on stage – so grab your instrument and join the musical celebration! The stage is equipped with a piano, drum kit, guitar and bass amplifiers, and microphones. You can look forward to late nights where you can experience Aarhus' vibrant jazz scene unfold as local young jazz talents and established international profiles come together in musical encounters where anything can happen!

Thor Johansen:

For the last jam of the year, talented bassist Thor Johansen takes the helm as jam host, with Jens Emil Jensen behind the drums and exciting guests to open the jam!

Thor Johansen is a Danish double- and electric bassist. After finishing at MGK with teachers as Peter Hansen, Morten Vestergaard and Thomas Fryland, he continued his jazz studies for four years at the Conservatory in The Hague 2019-23, where he focused on the double bass with guidance from renowned teachers Gulli Gudmundsson, Tony Overwater, Mark Haanstra. Since then he has been part of Jong Metropole 2023 playing songs and arrangements of Bill Laurance and Chris Walden in some of the biggest halls of The Netherlands and Germany. Thor's music is inspired by Lyle mays, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Breaker Brothers, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and Bill Evans Trio. His inspirations reach far and wide, but they all have playfulness with harmony, timbre and groove as key elements.