Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen

Danish saxophonist/composer Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, based out of New York, has been an active performer in the improvised and experimental scene around the world for the past 9 years. She is best known for her work as a solo performer and performing with her 'Spaced Out Ensembles,' featuring her own idiosyncratic and sensitive compositions arranged for winds, brass and hyperactive rhythm section, her duo project with bassist and husband Tom Blancarte and her other monstrous freak of a duo collaboration between her and Italian drummer Luca Marini called Herbert Eckardt. Her first solo CD, You Look Like Your Mother, Would You Like Some More Sauce? was well received by critics. Among other things they said . "fascinating and impressive", "A poem in Danish about people and dots I would elect to be the best I've ever heard sung in Danish in the genre of avangarde" (Niels Overgaard, JazzNyt), a DIY attitude and a general sense of inventive dewiness that let's us appreciate the creativity" (Touching Extreme).