Phone Book

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Phone Book is Laura Toxvaerd’s third album. It contains compositions played from graphic notations made and designed by Toxvaerd.

Her first album, Laura Toxvaerd No. 1, was chosen to be on ’Top 5 best debut albums 2007’ by The New York City Jazz Record. Her second album Do Drugs was released in 2010 – and nominated for a Danish Music Award Jazz. Now Toxvaerd is ready with her third album on ILK: Phone Book, which presents four graphic notations by Laura Toxvaerd called Androidangle, Barking, Fishbone and Cacklecabin. All of them are included in the cd booklet.


"If jazz is dead, no one has told Denmark the news. The saxophonist Laura Toxvaerd and pianist Jacob Anderskov here collaborate on four of the former's art-brut graphic notations (all incorporating scissored shards of a Danish phonebook) moving from lines of cautious beauty to detuned blasts of caged animal fury."**** (four stars).
by Andrew Male, MOJO

"This duo album underlines the fact that Laura Toxvaerd in both compositional and atmospherical ways are a one-of-a-kind profile on the danish jazz stage"
by Niels Overgaard, Jazznyt