24 July 2012

Entrance "Entrance" (1977)

Entrance
[debut]
release date: Nov. 1977
format: vinyl (MLP 15612 - gatefold)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,88]
producer: Entrance
label: Metronome - nationality: Denmark

Studio album debut by Danish jazz-fusion band Entrance founded by trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg (also credited on keyboard, piano, and flugelhorn), keyboardist Kenneth Knudsen, saxophonist Jesper Nehammer, bassist Bo Stief, and percussionist Kasper Winding. The album contains eight compositions, four on each side, and with Mikkelborg composer of four tracks, and Knudsen and Winding of two each.
Entrance play their own original version of jazz fusion inspired by Weather Report, Santana, Miles Davis, and other acts playing world fusion.
This particular album stands as a cornerstone in Danish music, and paved way for individual international careers for especially Mikkelborg, Knudsen, and Stief.