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Jesper Lundgaard was born on 12 June, 1954, is a Danish bassist, bandleader, and composer. Discover Jesper Lundgaard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 12 June 1954
Birthday 12 June
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1954

Jesper Lundgaard (born 12 June 1954) is a Danish jazz bassist, bandleader, composer and record producer.

Jesper Lundgaard was born in 1954 in Hillerød, Denmark.

After first playing guitar for a few years, he started to play bass at age 16.

1970

Since his debut in the mid-1970s, he has been among the most prominent bassists in Danish jazz and as a sideman he has appeared on more than 400 albums both with Danish and leading American jazz musicians.

1976

In 1976 he began to study music at Århus University and the same year he became part of Århus' jazz scene when he joined Bent Eriksen's trio.

There he met Danish jazz musicians such as Thomas Clausen, Alex Riel, Niels Jørgen Steen, Finn Ziegler, Jesper Thilo, Jørgen Emborg and Jan Zum Vohrde as well as many American musicians, including Dexter Gordon, Harry Sweets Edison, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Joe Newman, Benny Waters, Hal Singer, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Pepper Adams, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge and Doug and Jimmy Raney.

Lundgaard soon established himself as one of the leading jazz bassists on the Danish jazz scene.

1978

In 1978 he became a member of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and went on a 3-month European tour which would become its last before Thad Jones left the band and it changed its name simply to the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

After the tour both Thad Jones and Jesper Lundgaard settled in Copenhagen.

Lundgaard became bassist-in-residence at the La Fontaine Jazz Club and also played frequently at other venues such as Jazzhus Montmartre and Slukefter, accompanying musicians such as Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Jay McShann, Dorothy Donegan, Phineas Newborn, Mose Allison and Stanley Turrentine.

1979

In 1979 he also started recording for SteepleChase Records, appearing on around 40 albums from this label.

He was also a sideman for musicians such as Benny Carter and Teddy Wilson on albums released on Storyville Records.

He has also recorded with Chet Baker and Duke Jordan on some albums released by Japanese labels.

1980

Up through the 1980s, Lundgaard was a member of the Radiojazzgruppen, Ernie Wilkins' Almost Big Band and Thad Jones' Danish big band Eclipse, Parallel to this he went on numerous tours with American musicians.

These included lengthy tours with Doug and Jimmy Raney to the Netherlands, France and Germany and others with Tommy Flanagan and Ed Thigpen.

In the mid-1980s he also became a member of Bob Rockwell's quartet after Rockwell had become the third former The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra-member to permanently move to Copenhagen in 1984.

1986

Since 1986 Lundgaard worked with audio engineering.

1989

From 1989 to 1991 he was a member of the DR Big Band and in 1993 he joined Svend Asmussen's quartet in which he still plays.

1991

Since 1991 he has operated his own recording studio, the Loft Studio, in which he has produced some 40 albums for other artists.

1994

In 1994 he formed the Repertory Quartet which released six albums before it was dissolved in 2000.

He has also taught and conducted master classes at educational institutions in Denmark as well as at conservatories in Rotterdam, Zürich and Helsinki.

2004

Since 2004 he has developed a new amplifier for double bass and electric bass which is small, lightweight, and very powerful and in 2007 he established a small company, ARCO-amplification, which sells it.

With Lotte Anker – Mette Petersen Quartet

With Chet Baker

With Paul Bley

With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

With Frank Foster

With Thad Jones

With The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra

With Kirk Lightsey

With Doug Raney