Description:
Leonardo Pedersen starts playing in 1956 and puts a local traditional jazzband together by 1958. That band would later become Leonardo Pedersens Jazzkapel, a band that very much still exists, and is going strong in it's 42th year. The band got their breakthrough in november 1962, when they won the danish "Jazzband of the Year" competion. Throughout the years, they they've toured in Germany, all of Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, England, Italy and Scotland, and performed with some of the greatest artists in the history of Jazz. |