Jonas Westergaard – Bass
Westergaard, who comes from Copenhagen, studied at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory. Since the 1990s, he has worked in the Danish and German jazz and improvisation scene with Christopher Dell, Benjamin Koppel, Christian Lillinger, Henrik Walsdorff, Marc Schmolling, the trio Spoom (with Ronny Graupe and Christian Lillinger, Michael Wollny and the formations Delirium (with Mikko Innanen, among others) and Field (with Oliver Steidle, Ronny Graupe and Uli Kempendorff). In the field of jazz, Westergaard was involved in 33 recording sessions between 1997 and 2012, in addition to those mentioned above, also with Jakob Bro, George Garzone, Hans Ulrik, Petter Wettre and Jesper Zeithen. After being awarded a special prize by Danmarks Radio in 2006, he recorded the album Helgoland (2008) with his own compositions with a nonet.
Westergaard was also the bass player with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band when they recorded an album with UK pianist/composer Django Bates of Loose Tubes/Dlightful Precipice/Human Chain, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks in 2017 called ‘Saluting Sgt. Pepper’. The album was a resetting of The Beatles album, ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, coloured massively by that wonderous Batesian (is that a word?) madness. The transcription is the bass part to the title track. It seques into the next trtac which is why it ends so abruptly on the attached recording.
Sorry, I gaffed. The track is not available on any of my normal sources (YouTube or Spotify) so I cannot post a link to the track. You can buy the album here if you want to hear these arrangements.