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Any conversation about the piano trio in the European jazz of recent decades will inevitably touch on the topic of the “Nordic sound”. The leading exponents of it - Jan Johansson, Bobo Stenson, Bugge Wesseltoft, Esbjörn Svensson…- have not just drawn on the vast palette of American jazz, they are also musicians steeped in the songs of their homelands, as well as in the European classical music canon, and contemporary pop. And whereas their music may be known for stillness and spaciousness, it is no wallflower: the Nordic piano trio has a huge audience worldwide and its influence on subsequent generations has been incalculable and profound.

The Danish piano trio “Little North” - pianist Benjamin Nørholm Jacobsen, bassist Martin Brunbjerg Rasmussen and drummer Lasse Jacobsen - has what it takes to open up a new and significant chapter in this story. With their strong feeling for melody, harmony and dramaturgy, these three young musicians create a cinematic sound, music which can at times be melancholic, at others enchantingly beautiful, and which is full of twists and turns. For their ACT debut “While You Wait” the band is joined by Norwegian trumpeter Oscar Andreas Haug. One of the most interesting discoveries in Nordic jazz, Haug impresses with a voice-like, airy timbre and a fine sense of dynamics and interplay.