The useful jazz thread running through Copenhagen from Thursday October 8 to Sunday October 11 is a change of scale inside the same small-room culture. Start with the Carsten Dahl Trio at Jazzhus Montmartre, where a working piano trio brings a defined set of musical relationships into a focused listening room. Finish at La Fontaine, where drummer Andreas Fryland hosts the Sunday jamsession with bassist Richard Andersson and saxophonist Asger Uttrup Nissen. One date foregrounds a band’s collective language; the other opens the floor to the chance encounters that keep a local scene porous.[1][2][3]

Thursday: a trio built for the moment

Carsten Dahl Trio plays Jazzhus Montmartre on Thursday at 20:00. Dahl’s official trio page describes bassist Daniel Franck and drummer Martin Maretti Andersen as the group around him, and frames the music through collective balance, original material and standards reshaped in performance. That makes the date a strong entry point for listeners who like the piano trio as a responsive unit: melody, pulse and harmony can shift with each player’s decision, while the room keeps every change audible. Its compact format also puts individual timbres in sharp relief. Montmartre’s own portrait of Dahl places his background across American jazz and major classical composers, with an appetite for taking standards apart and rebuilding their internal logic.[1][3]

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Sunday: the session as a civic ritual

La Fontaine’s Sunday program begins at 21:00 and takes a different route into jazz continuity. Fryland leads the evening’s music, with Andersson on bass and Uttrup Nissen on saxophone; the club describes its Sunday sessions as a long-running meeting point for Copenhagen musicians. That format matters because the house band supplies enough shared vocabulary for visiting players to enter, listen and redirect the energy. Fryland’s role on drums gives the session a practical centre of gravity, while the bass-and-saxophone pairing leaves space for the bandstand to widen as the night develops. It is jazz as a living local network, heard after hours instead of preserved behind glass.[2]

A two-stop plan for October 8–11

Take Jazzhus Montmartre on Thursday if you want the concentrated arc of a trio concert, then keep Sunday open for La Fontaine’s looser communal finish. Jazzhus Montmartre is at Store Regnegade 19A, while La Fontaine is at Kompagnistræde 11; both sit within an easy central-city circuit. The Thursday concert starts at 20:00, and the Sunday session runs from 21:00 to 01:00 with free entry and first-come, first-served access according to La Fontaine. Recheck each venue’s official page before leaving, since door times, entry arrangements and lineups can change.[1][2]

Sources

  1. Carsten Dahl Trio | Montmartre — Jazzhus Montmartre
  2. Jamsession – Andreas Fryland, Richard Andersson & Asger Uttrup Nissen — La Fontaine
  3. Carsten Dahl Trio — Carsten Dahl