Jakob Elvstrøm Research Paper

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This cd is a work of passion. Playing the saxophone for almost 30 years Jakob Elvstrøm figured it was time to pay his respect to some of the music he loves the most; the funky jazz from the sixties and early seventies.
In the early 90ies Jakob Elvstrøm bought the Lou Donaldson album "Pretty Things" in a local secondhand store and immediately dug into the acid jazz craze, that was started by the British Dj Giles Peterson, who successfully rebranded the organ jazz of the 60ies as "acid jazz".
Jakob Elvstrøm's own organ Quartet was playing all over Denmark and Sweden and was a household name at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse in the mid-90ies. The band even made 2 cd's.
While Jakob Elvstrøm was playing the music live, the hip-hop music of this period

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