Mads Baerentzen (b. 1974) is a Danish Jazz Piano Player living in Aarhus. He graduated as the first rhythmic musician in Denmark with a master performance degree from The Royal Academy of Music in 2001. During the last 10 years has performed in a lot of different countries such as Thailand, Canada, USA, Poland, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Romania, Hungary, Austria a.o. During his studies he lived in New York in 1999 where he took lessons with the great American pianist Kenny Werner. Furthermore, he played a large number of gigs in smaller venues in "The Capital of Jazz". Since then Baerentzen has visited the city more than 10 times where he has both played and recorded at a number of occasions. Last time was in November 2006 where he recorded with singer Vivian Sessoms and some other great American musicians. An album under Vivian Sessoms' name that is going to be released in 2008. In 1999 he released his deb...