Freetown Quartet is a Czech-Danish project that came to existence in the legendary jazz club Børneteateret in the famous quirky Christiania district of Copenhagen. The initiator of the project is the saxophonist Luboš Soukup (known for example from Inner Spaces, Concept Art Orchestra or Points), who has been playing at the club regularly since his arrival in Denmark in 2010. The atmosphere of the club inspired Soukup so much that he came up with the idea in 2019 to record a live album there.

Soukup asked his musical colleague pianist Vojtěch Procházka — who has tight connections to the Norwegian music scene and who is known to Czech jazz fans as a member of the multi-award-winning band Vertigo — to join the project. Procházka didn’t think twice and dived right into the music, coming up with many great ideas and daring improvisations. There is, indeed, a perfect harmony between Vojtěch and the Danish rhythm section consisting of bassist Emil Brun Madsen and drummer Morten Hæsum. Luboš, Emil and Morten have been longtime musical partners, having played together in the MadHAs quartet, the sound of which they describe as „freebop garage jazz“. And it is indeed a legacy of MadHAs, its sound and mood that continues here in the Freetown Quartet.

Line-up: Vojtěch Procházka – piano, Luboš Soukup – saxophone, Emil Brun Madsen – bass, Morten Hæsum – drums