Born Free

Jesper Hertz is a Danish jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. His music has a strong melodic line and dreaming Nordic character, and it leaves space to add all kinds of colors to it. Jesper Hertz has released 5 albums as a leader (including the new album, Shizuka), and has achieved a lot of air play on the national Danish jazz radio station, and in other European countries. Jesper Hertz has played all over Denmark and toured internationally – fx two times in Japan, where the Shizuka album has been recorded in November 2023 at the Freedom Studio Infinity, Tokyo after the latest tour with double bassist Minoru Yoshiki, saxophonist Shuji Morita and drummer Naoki Takahashi. 

Jesper Hertz is very active as both composer and musician. He plays in widely varied contexts, from acoustic jazz to collaboration with pop and rock artist and performing in electronic/acoustic bands.