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The press wrote :

 

  

Anmeldelse Weekendavisen Februar 2000

"Det helt sublimt gennemsigtige og usædvanligt
fortryllende kan høres på trompetisten Flemming Agerskovs
overrumplende CD: Face to Face Her er virkelig en anderledes og
sjælden udført musikalsk vision og musikerkombination i dansk jazz - med næsten udenlandsk medvirken såmænd.
Er man vant til Flemming Agerskovs luftige og abstrakte
musik i andre sammenhænge , fremstår Face to Face usædvanlig
stram midt i sin transparens.
De musikere han har valgt at spille sammen med i studiet
synes at ånde med den samme enkelhed og ro der er hovedtrækket i
Agerskovs musik.Det er englænderne Julian Argüelles og Martin France og svenskerne Hans Andersson og Jesper Nordenström som på forbilledlig vis glider ind i Agerskovs tyste og lyriske musik.
Nok kan man komme til at tænke pĀ Wayne Shorters
æteriske ballader og sval nordisk jazzlyrik, men Agerskov
glider alligevel helt uden om disse klichebefængte områder og skaber
musikken på sine egne og medspillernes præmisser.
Der er luft pĀ tonen hos Flemming Agerskov - harmoni og balance
også i de mere "disharmoniske" og pågående sekvenser, hvor endog en Ornette Colemansk melodik melder sig.
Selv den Keith Jarret - dansende "we just want to dance our steps" bevarer
sin musikalske selvstændighed. Det er ikke minimal jazz men kusikken er præget af en masse små fint ciselerede forløb der danner den
samlede helhed - en slags labyrintisk enkelhed i musikken. "

 

  
Ib Skovgaard - Weekendavisen  
"During the last couple of years, trumpet player
Flemming Agerskov has developed to become one of our
most interesting among the younger generation of musicians.
Influenced by innovators like Miles Davis but creating a personal voice
in correspondance wiht a growing instrumental technique". 		 

 

Erik Wiedemann - Information

  
 
"Trumpetplayer Flemming Agerskov was demonstrating
play at a very high level - with energy and sources of inspiration
pointing in the direction of Booker little and Woody Shaw". 		 

 

Thorbjørn Sjøgren - Politiken

  
 
"- and in general it is this excellent trumpetplayer who
constantly plays with vitality and colours to remind us, that
jazzmusic always should be a personal, creative process". 		 

 

Kjeld Frandsen - Jazzspecial

  
 
"Flemming Agerskov is a brilliant trumpet player"

 

Jan Strand Orkesterjournalen

  
 
"Agerskovs talent we know for shure and with
his solo in "Just another time" he came up with the most
beautiful statement of the evening on the outside inspired by
Miles Davis but the essence was completely his own in every note
perfectly balanced and yet so intense-not a single note to much in a
solo worth a master".		  

 

Thorbjørn Sjøgren - Politiken

  
 

Agerskov/Argüelles / France / Nordenström /Andersson
Copenhagen Jazzhouse 21st of January 1999

 
"As in the ballad "Remembrance" focusing on
Agerskov´s trumpet where one hardly dared to breathe or
in the unrestrained "Choreography" - which connected the quintet
to a condensed unit. In moments like this one could experience the
whole thing as being good fortune - that exactly these five musicians
have found each other in interplay of a very rare, mutual
and intuitive understanding". 		 

 

Boris Rabinowitsch - Politiken

 
 
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