Walking with the slow Turtle

 Hanne Rømer/Marietta Wandall Duo

New CD to be released in October 2005

 the 4th one after more than 25 years of playing together

Hanne Roemer: Saxophone player, singer and composer - and Marietta Wandall: Piano player and composer are playing their own compositions and improvisations. The cd has but one composition not composed by these two musicians: the beautiful ballad „No more Tears” written by the jazz piano player Mal Waldron. 

”WALKING WITH THE SLOW TURTLE” is full of nuances; it’s unique, intensive, expressive, soft and poetic, beautiful and frisky. It is crossover, third stream music building bridges between jazz and the classical European music tradition, but along the way, the two  very creative musicians take off for ethnic inspiration as well as this Nordic-lyrical jazz-tone, that the Scandinavian jazz musicians have developed in the past 20-30 years. The collaboration through 25 years shows a thorough confidence and a lively freedom where improvisation und thematic severity is changing all along with a joyful play with rhythmic structures and experimental timbre.

You can order the cd on www.cdjazz.com

Sincerely yours    

HANNE ROEMER (Aabenraa) is celebrating her 30th anniversary as a saxophone player, but the saxophone came last after having played both piano and guitar and done a lot of singing during the childhood. She studied music in Copenhagen at the university and the conservatory and completed her education in 1983 as a composer, arranger and conductor from the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. She has been standing in front of various big bands and choirs, ensembles and larger projects up through the 80’ties and 90’ties, as well as being part of smaller ensembles. To day she is an active part of the jazz environment in the southern Denmark and northern Germany with ”the Dee Dee Kay Quartet (D/DK-4)” comprised of Danish and German jazz musicians from the border area, “Sax in the City”, a new saxophone quintet with colleagues from Hannover, Hamburg and  Flensburg as well as conducting the German jazz- and pop choir “Hello Music”, Kronshagen. For more information visit www.amanda-music.dk .

 MARIETTA WANDALL (Copenhagen) is autodidactic. She got ”the kick” in a jazz course in  Vallekilde 1971, when she sat down 14 years old and listened to Chick Corea practising (almost) alone. Some years later she played duo with saxophonist Anthony Braxton at the same place, and since that she has played with many various musicians from Sweden and Denmark. Marietta Wandall has played together with the American flute player Chris Poole, who has lived in Denmark for many years. As a composer she has written and arranged for the Rhythmic Conservatory big band, her own groups, April Light Orchestra and the latest:  a new composition from 2004 written for the classical ensemble: ”Wärme-kvartetten”.