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Anne Mette Iversen

A former student in classical piano at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Iversen went on to study bass for four years at the Rhythmic Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, and graduated in 2001 from The New School University with a BFA degree in Jazz Performance. Iversen has resided in New York City for eight years. During this time, in addition to leading her own groups, she has performed with many prominent artists including Terri Lyne Carrington, Ingrid Jensen, Ben Taylor, Nina Nastasia, Carly Simon, Don Sickler, Abraham Burton, Sam Yahel, Jeremy Pelt, Freddie Bryant, Marcus Strickland, Jason Lindner, Gary Versace, Geoff Kisor, Mike Moreno, Lea Delaria, Dena DeRose and many others. Iversen also freelances in many diverse settings, including classical orchestras. To say that she is thoroughly trained and experienced in many musical languages is an understatement.

As a composer Iversen has developed her own unique and personal style that has come out of a talent for unifying jazz music with European classical music. In addition to her compositional work for her own groups, she composed "Hvor er din bolig vidunderlig" for the 125 year anniversary of The Danish Church in New York. Another highlight was her being chosen to present music when Denmark hosted 120 United Nations ambassadors, the General Secretary Kofi Annan and Crown Prince of Denmark, His Royal Highness Prince Frederik, at a dinner at B.B. King's Club in New York in 2002. Iversen has received several grants from the Danish Art Foundation, among others, to reward and encourage her work.

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Album Review

Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1: Racing a Butterfly

Read "Racing a Butterfly" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


A working collective since 2002, Anne Mette Iversen's quartet—saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Danny Grissett, drummer Otis Brown III and Iversen herself on bass—has developed a unique musical language, which transcends typical stigmas of the genre and demonstrates a special sense of light-footedness in navigating through the different bars and meters, all the while evading the self-indulgent. Augmented to a quintet with the addition of trombonist Peter Dahlgren, Racing A Butterfly sees Iverson building on concepts introduced on past outings Milo ...

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Anne Mette Iversen: Racing a Butterfly

Read "Racing a Butterfly" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Many can surely recall the sunny, childlike fervor and bounce chasing a butterfly. Whether it was the park behind the projects or a rolling, rural vista, a feeling of wonder and wander settled into our core memory, only to be summoned in up from the subconscious to displace the current. Even if but for a moment. Even if but for the forty-eight or so minutes of Racing a Butterfly's capering wit. No one is afraid to follow a ...

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Anne Mette Iversen e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Anne Mette Iversen e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Il tratto principale della mia musica Il modo in cui melodia e armonia interagiscono. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La capacità di lavorare su qualsiasi composizione. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando sono sul palco con la mia band. Come musicista, il mio principale difetto Non mi esercito molto! La mia più ...

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Anne Mette Iversen: Invincible Nimbus

Read "Invincible Nimbus" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Given the sometimes Euro-chamber sounding approach to Denmark's Berlin-based bassist/composer Anne Mette Iversen's thoroughly interactive music, when she wants to have some fun, the music moves more to the freedom swing of Charles Mingus and the rhythmic conjurings of Dave Holland. This is heard most enjoyably on her dynamic second disc, Invincible Nimbus. Mingus walks in early on the lead-off, “Polychromatic Pictures," a twisting, tempo-defying runaround of high register solos bursting from the inventive teaming of trombonist Geoffroy ...

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Anne Mette Iversen's Ternion Quartet: Invincible Nimbus

Read "Invincible Nimbus" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Anne Mette Iversen's Ternion Quartet is a frisky, loosely controlled ensemble with a fierce drive that recalls Charles Mingus' small groups. Iversen and drummer Roland Schneider push the music relentlessly forward while the front line of saxophonist Silke Eberhard and trombonist Geoffroy De Masure carouse boisterously on the top. Iversen's themes carry traces of classical structure, like the fugue used in “The Rose Window" and the brittle, percussive chopping that begins “Polychromatic Pictures," but the music always ...

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Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life: So Many Roads

Read "So Many Roads" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Originaria della Danimarca, la contrabbassista e compositrice Anne Mette Iversen si è giovanissima trasferita a New York per favorire la propria formazione, per poi spostarsi a Berlino. Dopo aver lavorato a lungo con varie formazioni, in particolare con un suo quartetto, qui si cimenta in un contesto più sofisticato dal punto di vista compositivo e orchestrale. So Many Roads vede infatti in scena un quintetto jazzistico affiancato da un classico quartetto d'archi; il lavoro consta di sei ...

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Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life: So Many Roads

Read "Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life: So Many Roads" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Music making, like life itself, is all about balance. In both worlds, highs and lows, triumphs and tragedies, harmony and melody, chaos and order, the clinical and the emotional, the simple and complex, and so much more are constantly being balanced on the scales. Rarely are things in perfect equilibrium, yet so many people strive to reach that place; bassist Anne Mette Iversen is one of those people, and So Many Roads is her musical treatise on the art of ...

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Recording

BJU Records Announces The Release Of So Many Roads, The Grand New Recording From Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life

BJU Records Announces The Release Of So Many Roads, The Grand New Recording From Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Available April 22, 2014 Featuring: Anne Mette Iversen (acoustic bass, compositions), John Ellis (soprano & tenor saxophone), Peter Dahlgren (trombone), Danny Grissett (piano), Otis Brown III (drums) and 4Corners - Tine Rudloff, Sarah McClelland (violin), Anne Soren (viola),Mats Larsson (cello) So Many Roads, the grand new album from bassist/composer Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life, to be released on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records on April 22, is a very personal recording for Iversen. The artist explains, “Its conception and realisation has ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of "Poetry Of Earth" from Anne Mette Iversen

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of "Poetry Of Earth" from Anne Mette Iversen

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of Poetry Of Earth from Anne Mette Iversen Poetry by Grøn, Keats, Housman, Hardy & others Poetry of Earth features: Anne Mette Iversen (acoustic bass, compositions), Maria Neckam, Christine Skou (vocals), Dan Tepfer (piano), John Ellis (ten. saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet & flute) CD Release Concerts for Poetry of Earth: March 15, 8:30 PM: The Cornelia Street Café, NYC March 17, 4:00 PM: Special concert & discussion with Ms. Iversen @ The Danish ...

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Anne Mette Iversen Quartet - The Milo Songs (2011)

Anne Mette Iversen Quartet - The Milo Songs (2011)

Source: Something Else!

When I think of all the members of the young, exciting roster that the fledgling Brooklyn Jazz Underground Jazz Records has in its ranks, one of the first names I think of is Anne Mette Iversen. She is a serious talent at both acoustic bass and compositions. OK, so there might be a few dozen bass players out there who are that strong in both departments, and quite a number of them I've said those things about them here. But ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Racing a Butterfly

Bjurecords
2020

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Invincible Nimbus

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
2019

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So Many Roads

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
2015

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Anne Mette Iversen's...

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
2014

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