Jazz Festival 2022

Ahead of performing at 18 concerts in just 10 days, Danish musician Andreas Toftemark found time in his hectic schedule to share his recommendations at this ...

On Monday, you can go to the Hvide Lam, on Tuesday, Hovmester, a new place that has live jazz, on Wednesdays and Fridays late at night, you can go to Christiania Jazz Club. On Thursdays, you can always find a concert somewhere in the city. The festival is the busiest month of the year for most Danish jazz musicians – I’ll be playing around 18 concerts in 10 days! There’s a lot of history that not a lot of other cities have, and this has built a really strong foundation for what’s going on now. In Copenhagen, you can go to jam sessions every night, and see multiple concerts every day, so it’s a great place to be for a jazz musician or a jazz fan. I have my own band called Andreas Toftemark Quartet, and we’re performing during the festival. My goal is just always to get better, and then everything around it usually follows.