Aage Tanggaard

Aage Tanggaard ( born February 25, 1957) is a Danish jazz drummer.

The student of Ed Thigpen and Michael Carvin played in the 1970s with various Danish bands and as a companion animal gas forming foreign jazz musicians. Since the late 1970s he worked as a freelancer and member of various radio jazz bands like Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band, the trio of Finn Savery and Thomas Clausen and Arne Domnérus Rune Gustafsson Kvintet active and joined with the NDR Big Band in Hamburg, as well as with Chet Baker and the NDR Radio Orchestra in Hannover. In 1985 he received the JASA pinches the Danish jazz criticism.

With the Duke Jordan Trio, he toured Europe and Japan. In the late 1980s he was a member of Pierre Dørges New Jungle Orchestra. In the 1990s he worked regularly with Svend Asmussen Kvintet.

As a sideman Tanggaard entered, inter alia, with Roland Hanna, Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Herb Geller, Dexter Gordon, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, Kenny Drew, Sonny Stitt, Toots Thielemans, John Lewis, Kai Winding, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Griffin and Stan Getz on. He teaches at Rytmisk of Music in Copenhagen.

Discography

• Carsten Dahl: Jazzpar 2000 Quintet
• Frank Foster: House That Love Built
• Jesper Thilo Jesper Thilo & The American Stars
• Horace Parlan: Glad I Found You
• Svend Asmussen: Still Fiddling
• Warne Marsh: Marshlands