Kjeld Lauritsen Trio at Kaffesalonen

Kjeld Lauritsen Hammond Organ

Kjeld Lauritsen is one of the few remaining jazz organ players, who plays the big Hammond Organ with rotating leslie speakers and bass pedals.



In his younger days he was a profile on the danish blues scene, which gave him a background similar to many of the original organ grinders.



When he started his own jazz combo – The Organizers – with Bob Rockwell on saxophone, succes came immediately. 7 CDs with this group, 3 under his own name and 2 records with big-bands followed.



In 2011 he released a CD with a 7-piece band playing homegrown compositions from jazz and blues to beyond. The title of this group is Hammond Organ 7. Also two records with with jazz standards together with Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason plus a few funky jazz CD/LP with his own trio....

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Kjeld Lauritsen Hammond Organ

Kjeld Lauritsen is one of the few remaining jazz organ players, who plays the big Hammond Organ with rotating leslie speakers and bass pedals.



In his younger days he was a profile on the danish blues scene, which gave him a background similar to many of the original organ grinders.



When he started his own jazz combo – The Organizers – with Bob Rockwell on saxophone, succes came immediately. 7 CDs with this group, 3 under his own name and 2 records with big-bands followed.



In 2011 he released a CD with a 7-piece band playing homegrown compositions from jazz and blues to beyond. The title of this group is Hammond Organ 7. Also two records with with jazz standards together with Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason plus a few funky jazz CD/LP with his own trio.



The Press wrote:

“Who ever thinks of North European people thinks of cool people, the counterpart of Mediterranian people. But you did not know Kjeld Lauritsen, the hot jazz man at the Hammond. May be his attitude is friendly and restrained but you will experience a total different music: swinging, cooking, just a very active asset of the Danish jazz scene”.

- Jürgen Wolf, http://www.iajo.org/



“Only very few people can play jazz on organ, but in Denmark we have a master
Kjeld showed his excellent skills as an organplayer, that covers ground from the massive and agressive to the very subtle, underlined by his foot pedal playing. He is really fantastic at playing bass with his feet.”

(from Aarhus Jazzfestival 2009)



”Hammond Time!” is a wonderful record that just makes you happy. It really swings, and Kjeld lift the heritage from great people like Jimmy McGriff in a sublime way.”

- Jan Olsson, Sydsvenska Dagbladet (Sweden)

Der venter en oplevelse af de sjældne når musikerne Lauritsen og Flosason står på scenen sammen. Gennem mange år har de optrådt for et begejstret publikum både i Danmark og Island. En mand kom fortvivlet hen til gruppen en dag og bad om en ny indspilning fra musikerne, da hans kone hele tiden ville høre gruppens første udgivelse. Herefter kom der selvfølgelig en 2er ...

Kjeld Lauritsen og Sigurdur Flosason har sammen udgivet pladerne ”Nighfall” og Daybreak. Musikken er swing, men med et moderne touch og med en ”after hours” stemning, der normalt kun findes i musikernes private sfærer.

Sigurdur er en virtuos altsaxofonist med inspiration fra bl.a. Cannonball Adderley. På Island er han kendt som ”Mr. Jazz” og med en solid ballast – 5 års musikeruddannelse i USA – har han været ”first call” inden for jazz og det der ligner.

Kjeld Lauritsen havde i mange år bandet ”The Organizers” sammen med den amerikanske saxofonist Bob Rockwell. Siden da har han udgivet 4 CDer i eget navn foruden et par plader med Big Band.


Som en af de få i Europa spiller han på det store Hammondorgel med roterende Lesliehøjttaler og fuldt pedalspil. Med denne gruppe får Kjeld Lauritsen mulighed for at udfolde sig i et repertoire med klassisk jazz.

På trommer medvirker Kristian Leth, der er kendt for sit samarbejde med store amerikanske solister som Scott Hamilton og Eric Alexander.

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