Jens Jefsen

Jens Jefsen has been one of Northern Europe's most prominent jazz bassists since the 1970s. Born 1946 in Bov, on the Jutland peninsula in southern Denmark, he graduated in 1973 from the Royal Conservatory of Music in the city of Aarhus and quickly developed a following with his personal style of playing, and went on to perform with a vast array of musicians, both from Denmark and visiting from America, including Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, and Al Cohn. He has also worked in contemporary jazz into the new century, collaborating with Bob Rockwell, Thomas Clausen, Alex Riel, Bob Mintzer, Jerry Bergonzi, and Lars Jansson, among numerous others. ~ Bruce Eder