Danish singer Cæcilie Norby has never cared for musical stereotypes. To her, the melody of a song is the music’s essence and the only attribute to judge a composition – regardless of the genre. An attitude eminently suitable to describe her fascinating career and the secret to her success: Norby’s parents are classical musicians. But only after she had discovered jazz and blues for herself, she decided to follow in the foodsteps of her parents and to become a professional musician. As a teenager, she was very much into rock and pop music. She soon made herself a name as a traveler between the genres with her funk-jazz-band „Frontline“ and won every Danish jazz award in the early 80es. In collaboration with Nina Forsberg Norby founded the pop-rock band „One Two“ in 1985. The duo sold quarter of a million records only in Denmark. Working with Forsberg and as a solo artist, Norby was the most important Sacndinavian singer to combine pop and jazz music and paved the way for the international success of singers like Rebekka Bakken, Silje Nergaard or Viktoria Tolstoy. Norby was the first Scandinavian singer signed to ”Blue Note” and published four albums on this legendary label. She collaborated with many international stars - from Bugge Wesseltoft to Mike Stern, Chick Corea or Kurt Elling. Her most important musical partner and producer of almost every of her solo albums likewise is the most important person in her privat life: Her husband, bass-player Lars Danielsson. „Arabesque“ is Cæcilie Norby’s 2011 ACT-debut: For the first time she wrote lyriks to classical, impressionistic compositions by composers like Satie or Ravel. But Norby not only manages to find the right jazz-tone to suite this classical melodies, but also impressively proves what a great ”classical composer” Michel Legrand can be. Cæcilie Norby constantly builds bridges with her music: She attracts classical music fans, jazz freaks or pop fans and everyone keen on good melodies.

Marilyn Mazur (1955) Born in New York City. Moved to Denmark at the age of 6.
In the 70’ies she was active as a dancer, composer and pianist, but she switched to percussion and drums as her main instruments when she was 19 (she has a degree in percussion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music). Since then Marilyn has been active as a composer, bandleader and musician in a vast number of connections.
She has been a member of the orchestras of i.e. Miles Davis(1985-89), Wayne Shorter(1987) and Jan Garbarek(1991-2005).

The origin of their intuitive musical understanding can be found in the remarkable similarities between their careers to date: both began with classical music at a very early age, both developed their musicianship with a classical education, and both are inexorably linked by the love of the traditional songs of their homeland, Italy.
Rita Marcotulli carved herself an impressive international career in a very short time. Alongside jazz greats such as Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, Paul Bley, Palle Danielsson, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Pat Metheny and Nguyên Lê, the native Roman also collaborates repeatedly with popular stars of the Italian music scene such as the songwriters Pino Daniele and Gianmaria Testa.