Morten Lund (born September 13, 1972) is a Danish jazz drummer. He co-leads a trio with Italian pianist

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and Danish bassist Jesper Bodilsen, and he is a member of

Paolo Fresu Paolo Fresu ( sc, Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. Career Born in Berchidda, Sardinia, he picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the ban ...

's Devil Quartet and Kind of Porgy and Bess ensembles. As a sideman he has participated on more than 60 albums.

Biography

Lund was born into a musical family in Viborg, Denmark, in 1972 to a father who played drums, trumpet, and guitar and was active part of the city's jazz scene, and a mother who played flute. At age 6, he started to play drums. He got his first paid jobs at age 15. In 1993 he was accepted into the

Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus The Royal Academy of Music (Danish: ''Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium'') in Aarhus and Aalborg, Denmark, is a conservatoire and state institution under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture, charged with responsibility for the further edu ...

and only a year later, still a student, he started to play in the internationally recognized

Klüvers Big Band Klüvers Big Band is a Danish big band. It was formed in 1977 by a group of young music students under the leadership of Jens Klüver. Since then the orchestra has worked with a long line of international and Danish soloists. It has recently to ...

. With this band that he recorded his first album. After receiving his diploma in 1997, he moved to

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and was soon involved in several projects, recording and going on tours. Jesper Bodilsen, with whom he had studied at the Academy, has been a close collaborator on many projects. In 2002 Lund and Bodilsen were among the musicians selected for the Jazzpar Sextet which

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formed, as was virtuoso Italian pianist

. Because the chemistry was good among them, they formed a trio the following year. Their first album, ''Mi ritorni in mente'', was released the same year to critical acclaim and became one of the ten best selling records in Italy that year. After tours in Italy and Scandinavia it was clear that the collaboration was going to be of a more lasting nature. They went on to play in jazz clubs and at festivals around the world. Their debut in New York City was at the legendary Birdland Club. In 2006 the trio released their second album, ''Gleda'', which is centred on Scandinavian songs.

Honors

Ben Webster Prize The Ben Webster Prize is an annual jazz award set up by the Ben Webster Foundation to honour Danish and American jazz musicians as well as other professionals active in the promotion of jazz in those countries. The American jazz musician Ben Webste ...

, 2006 *

Australian Jazz Bell Awards Australian Jazz Bell Awards, also known as the Bell Awards or The Bells, are annual music awards for the jazz music genre in Australia. They were named in honour of Australian jazz pianist, composer and band leader, Graeme Bell (1914–2012), at ...

nomination, ''Best International Jazz Release'' for ''Gleda'', 2006

Discography

With

and Jesper Bodilsen * ''Mi ritorni in mente'', (

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, 2003) * ''Gleda, Songs from Scandinavia'', (Stunt, 2006) * ''Stone in the Water'', ( ECM, 2009) With

Yelena Eckemoff Yelena Eckemoff is a Russian-born pianist, composer, poet, and visual artist. Her compositions blend classical music with jazz, and feature exploration and improvisation. Music career Eckemoff was born in Moscow, Russia, in the Soviet Union. He ...

and

Mads Vinding Mads Vinding (born 7 December 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish jazz double-bassist. Music career Vinding began his professional career when he was 16 as the house bassist for Jazzhus Montmartre, a jazz club in Copenhagen. He has played o ...

* ''Grass Catching the Wind'', (L&H, 2010)

Collaboration

*2014: ''Joy In Spite of Everything'' (ECM), Stefao Bollani

Gallery

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Morten 1972 births Living people Danish jazz drummers Danish jazz musicians People from Viborg Municipality 21st-century drummers