Artist
Klavs Hovman
Biography
Klavs Hovman is a Danish bassist whose work encompasses acoustic and electric bass, jazz, improvisation and music that crosses stylistic boundaries. His longstanding musical collaboration with percussionist Marilyn Mazur included Future Song, Marilyn Mazur Group and Special 4. He has also worked extensively in pianist Makiko Hirabayashi’s trio.
His collaborators have included Ernie Wilkins, Horace Parlan and singer Etta Cameron, with whom he worked for three decades. He also spent a period with the Danish rock group Savage Rose. These varied settings reflect a practice that combines a strong rhythmic foundation with flexibility in exploratory ensemble music.
Hovman plays bass on In Other Words in Andrea Marcelli’s The Invisible Child, recorded in Copenhagen in 2000 with Fabrizio Mandolini, Paolo Russo and Marcelli.