Copenhagen Jazz Orchestra and Lars Møller present a hard-swinging, powerful, and beautiful tribute to Miles Davis’ iconic masterpiece, Kind of Blue – infused with delicate Indian musical colors.
With this concert, Copenhagen Jazz Orchestra invites the audience into the most magnificent and hallowed chambers of jazz. Here, Miles Davis’ iconic masterpiece, Kind of Blue, is reinterpreted for the large jazz orchestra format by one of Denmark’s most internationally acclaimed composers and saxophonists, Lars Møller. The original Kind of Blue album has rightfully been called the greatest work of art in jazz. It simultaneously summarized the groovy, improvisational, and atmospheric history of jazz while pointing toward a new direction for the genre, featuring a stellar lineup of the generation’s finest musicians, including saxophonist John Coltrane.
Lars Møller’s connection to Kind of Blue is truly special. As a young man, he spent years playing in the band of the album’s legendary drummer, Jimmy Cobb. In the spring of 2025, Møller—alongside CJO guitarist Thor Madsen and drummer Jonas Johansen—released their trio version, Three Kinds of Blue, which serves as the foundation for this new big band version in Kind of Blue Revisited. Furthermore, the music is enriched with the Indian musical colors that have been a part of Lars Møller’s artistic life for decades—elements that were also a source of inspiration for the original Kind of Blue album.
Copenhagen Jazz Orchestra (formerly known as “The Orchestra”) has for years been a leading big band in Denmark, renowned for its flexible, chamber-like, and warm ensemble sound. With the joy of intimate interplay at its core, the band invites the audience into a colorful world of orchestral music and improvisation, often in collaboration with master musicians such as Egberto Gismonti and Florian Weber.
The band maintains a global outlook, most recently demonstrated by the release of Wolof Dream Factory in collaboration with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and musicians from Gambia.
As part of the Kind of Blue Revisited project, Copenhagen Jazz Orchestra also reaches out to music schools, high schools, and primary schools. Through interaction and collaboration with young people and emerging musical talents, the orchestra aims to share the fantastic experiences of music and the big band format.