Let me make a confession: frankly speeking I'm not into jazz-music, and somehow it's closed aria to me. Maybe because I'm not familiar with the jazz-genre. Or because I'm so absorbed into the rock/pop music genre. But the most recent years people like Norah Jones, Manuela Lærke and Malene Mortensen have opened a door to this exciting world of jazz.
I had the fortune to experience Malene Mortensen playing together with talents sush as Niels Lan Doky and Alex Riel already two years ago (se photo series here), and the soft and swinging jazz sung by Malene's beautiful voice fascinated me to that extent that I had to buy her albums and to see her perform again.
This time at Holmen in Copenhagen the ligth was better than the light in Rødovre in 2003, so I got a much better result compared to the 2003-series.
Malene seemed a little shy, which merely added to her charm, but she did a marvellously professionel job, which places her among the best Danish female jazz singers, close to the standard of Cæcilie Norby.
The young musicians in the backing band were surprisingly experienced and made it all swing. (For me the sax solo in Temptation was all too hard-core jazz, but I'm still a beginner ... Mayby I'll like it in 10 years from now?)
As can be seen below Malene looked wonderful while performing on stage!
We can no doubt expect this gifted young talent to become an internationally apreciated artist ín the years to come.

Photographs by Eric Klitgaard © 2005

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