Kristor Lybecker Brødsgaard (born 1979) is a Danish double bassist known from collaborations with jazz guitarist Tao Højgaard and within

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Career

Brødsgaard picked up the double bass in 1992, and was awarded the «Berlingske Tidendes Rytmiske Musikkonkurrence», including bassist

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in the jury. Within the Scandinavian quintet

he participates on several album releases and appeared at the international jazz festivals

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, Bangkok Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival as well as being part of the opening of the annual Rio Carnival in

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Honors

*1999: Winner of the «Berlingske Tidendes Rytmiske Musikkonkurrence» *2005: Ung Jazz award of the JazzDanmark *2005: Young Nordic Jazz Comets *2007: Spearhead in the International Launch of Danish Jazz between 2007 and 2009

Discography

Within

*2005: ''Mission I'', (

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) *2007: ''Traveling at the speed of sound'', (Stunt) *2008: ''Emerging pilots'' EP, (SevenSeas) *2009: ''The revolution's in your hands'' EP, (SevenSeas) *2010: ''Supersonic revolutions'', (SevenSeas) *2012: ''The Return of JazzKamikaze'' (Stunt) With other *2003: ''I 508 Farver'' (Cope), within Prinsens Orkester *2004: "Trioscope" (Cope), within Trioscope *2004: "Play Attention" (Calibrated), within Jan Lippert Ensemble *2005: ''This Is Beyond Criticism'' (Useless Salvation), within Geeza *2006: "Protestsange.dk" (Edel), within various artists *2006: "Playing" (Cope), within Jan Lippert Ensemble *2009: "Stilletto" (Playground), within Karen *2012: "Deeper Than Roots" (Target), within Aisha *2013: "Catching the Wave" (Stunt), within Veronica Mortensen Band As featured artist *2011: ''Tribute'' (Carsten Lindholm), with Carsten Lindholm (9th Gate)

References

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