SATURDAY 23 | Danish-born, Paris-based saxophonist Martin Jacobsen collects passport stamps and luggage stickers the way the rest of us collect coffee-shop loyalty card points. To Phnom Penh, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang this November he brings with him two Parisians of Vietnamese heritage, Duylinh Nguyen on bass and Vinh Lê on piano. “Mongolia has been independent for only 20 years and jazz is still very new,” he says of his travels. “I’ve in fact been the first ever jazz educator to come to Mongolia on a regular basis for now a year. Ulaanbaatar’s first jazz club opened a few months ago, the small yearly jazz festival is getter bigger and the Minister of Culture, a woman, loves jazz and helps the scene. Mongolians are an incredibly musical people and their own traditional music scene is very strong. They respond very well to jazz – rhythm, melodies, harmonies – and it’s really exciting to see how the scene is unfolding there. Because of big social differences in Mongolia, the jazz audience is often made up of either more well-off Mongolians or foreigners living there, but with the new jazz club (run by Mongolia’s only jazz pianist) it’s now possible for everyone to come and listen to jazz.”
WHO: Martin Jacobsen Trio
WHAT: Jazz, man
WHERE: Cabaret, Street 154
WHEN: 7:30pm November 23
WHY: There ain’t nothin’ like a Dane