From Thursday, November 12, through Sunday, November 15, a string-led route cuts across Copenhagen’s jazz map. Mike Stern brings amplified guitar fusion and a Hendrix-facing programme to Epicurus; Fuensanta joins voice, double bass and free improvisation in an ALICE presentation; Jacob Fischer takes guitar into Brazilian jazz at La Fontaine. These are very different repertoires, yet each uses strings as a way of moving between inherited song forms and improvisation. The rooms matter too: a late jazz salon, an off-site theatre setting and a compact central-city club give the thread a useful sense of scale.[1][2][3]

Mike Stern’s late electric sets at Epicurus

At Epicurus, Mike Stern’s Jimi Hendrix and Beyond arrives at 21:15 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Stern’s five-piece includes Gábor Bolla, Leni Stern, Felix Pastorius and Jacob Hatholt, giving the dates a full-band frame for a programme that connects Stern’s own writing with blues, rock, jazz and fusion influences, plus Hendrix reinterpretations. Stern’s long relationship with electric jazz supplies the obvious entry point, while the listed personnel adds saxophone, a second guitar, six-string bass and drums around his lead playing. Epicurus places the run in its Downstairs Jazz Room, keeping the focus close and late.[1]

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Fuensanta’s double bass in the SORT/HVID set

Friday offers the thread’s most unusual setting. ALICE presents Mexican singer and double bassist Fuensanta at 21:00, with the concert taking place at SORT/HVID inside the set design for BAD MEXICAN DOG. Fuensanta performs as a duo and works with crystalline vocals, double bass and free improvisation, drawing her material toward Latin American neo-folk. The collaboration between ALICE and SORT/HVID makes space part of the listening proposition: this is a concert shaped by a theatrical environment as well as a bandstand. For listeners who associate jazz strings mainly with soloing, Fuensanta offers a route where voice, bow, resonance and atmosphere share the foreground.[2]

Brazilian repertoire and a Sunday landing at La Fontaine

La Fontaine brings the route back to a recognisable jazz-club pulse on Saturday, November 14, at 21:00. Jacob Fischer’s Brazil-Jazz celebration features Alexandre Damasceno and draws on bossa nova, samba and choro, with music by Jobim, Jacob do Bandolim, Sérgio Mendes, Luiz Bonfá and Ivan Lins alongside Fischer’s compositions. Fischer’s guitar sits within a group built for melody and rhythmic detail, giving Saturday a clear repertoire-led destination after Stern’s electric expansion and Fuensanta’s spare duo language. The run continues at La Fontaine on Sunday, November 15, when the Andreas Fryland jamsession with Jesper Løvdal and Anders Ammitzbøll begins at 21:00. Recheck the official venue pages for ticket availability, door times and any changeable venue arrangements.[3][4]

Sources

  1. Mike Stern - Jimi Hendrix and Beyond — Epicurus
  2. S/H x ALICE: Fuensanta (MX) — ALICE
  3. Jacob Fischer Brazil-Jazz celebration feat. Alexandre Damasceno — La Fontaine
  4. La Fontaine — La Fontaine