For Copenhagen jazz listeners, Thursday, October 15 through Sunday, October 18 offers a compact lesson in how a scene keeps moving: through players sharing a bandstand, a veteran choosing collaborators, and a late-week session that leaves room for the next encounter. The thread begins at Jazzhus Montmartre with bassist Bo Stief’s 80th-birthday concerts, then lands at La Fontaine for Kathrine Windfeld’s Sunday jam. These are different propositions in scale and structure, joined by a clear local idea: jazz travels person to person.[1][2][3]

Bo Stief brings his circle back to Montmartre

Bo Stief Quintet plays Jazzhus Montmartre on Thursday, October 15 at 20:00 and Friday, October 16 at 20:00. The dates mark Stief’s 80th birthday, on October 15, in the room where he began his musical life at 17. Montmartre presents the concerts as a meeting between the bassist and four younger musicians he has mentored: cellist Kirstine Elise Pedersen, bassist Mathæus Bech, guitarist Mads Nørgaard and trumpeter Rasmus Mikkelsen. That lineup makes the occasion useful beyond anniversary reverence: two basses, cello, guitar and trumpet give the group an unusual set of voices, while the programme’s premise places musical knowledge in active circulation. The instrumentation also gives each player a distinct route into the material, from low-register dialogue to the sharper outline of trumpet and guitar. It makes the pair of concerts feel like a concentrated portrait of a working musical relationship, presented across two consecutive nights.[1]

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A pianist-led session at La Fontaine

On Sunday, October 18 at 21:00, La Fontaine hosts Jamsession – Kathrine Windfeld with Daniel Sommer and Morten Haxholm. The venue frames its Sunday jams as a recurring meeting point for Copenhagen musicians, with Windfeld guiding this edition from piano alongside Sommer on drums and Haxholm on bass. Windfeld’s own work as a Danish composer, arranger and pianist has long moved between closely designed ensemble music and improvising groups; her writing draws attention to rhythm, harmony and space. Here, that background meets La Fontaine’s smaller, after-hours framework, where the house leaves the shape of the night open to the musicians present.[2][3]

Plan the route

Choose Jazzhus Montmartre for Stief’s Thursday or Friday concert if the draw is a fixed ensemble with an unusually direct generational link. Choose La Fontaine on Sunday if the appeal is the changing social grammar of a jam session. Jazzhus Montmartre lists both Bo Stief concerts as sold out, while La Fontaine lists free entry and first-come, first-served access for the Sunday session. Recheck each venue’s official page before leaving for current entry, availability and timing details.[1][2]

Sources

  1. Bo Stief Quintet – Celebrating 80 and the Future — Jazzhus Montmartre
  2. Jamsession – Kathrine Windfeld, Daniel Sommer & Morten Haxholm — La Fontaine
  3. Kathrine Windfeld — Kathrine Windfeld