Uffe Eskild Markussen (born September 19, 1952,

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) is a Danish

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

reedist, who plays primarily

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and

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. Markussen was a student at the

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and played in his early career with an ensemble called Tømmermændene. He co-founded groups with Jorgen Emborg,

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, and Marilyn Mazur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and worked with other groups such as Blast, Instant Breakfast, and Santa Cruz. In 1985 he began playing in Niels Jorgen Steen's group A-Team, and founded the six-piece ensemble Orbit the following year. In 1989 he began playing with the Radioens Big Band and in 1991 with Avantgarden Party. Other associations include performing or recording with

Frans Bak Frans Bak (born 7 February 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked as a jazz performer and composer of film music. In 1994, he ...

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, Joaquin Chacon, Trine Dansgaard,

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, Kjeld Ipsen,

Fredrik Lundin Fredrik Lundin (born 7 April 1963) is a Danish jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Having founded his first jazz quartet in 1981, he has become one of the most expressive saxophonists in Danish jazz and also one of the most prolific ones. L ...

, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

References

*Frank Büchmann-Møller, "Uffe Markussen". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, 2001, ed.

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Markussen, Uffe 1952 births Living people Danish jazz saxophonists Male saxophonists Danish jazz clarinetists 21st-century saxophonists 20th-century saxophonists Royal Danish Academy of Music alumni 21st-century clarinetists 20th-century Danish male musicians 21st-century male musicians Danish male jazz musicians