Kia Ora!
My name is Mike Jensen, welcome to my website. I am a musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Raumati Beach, on the beautiful Kapiti Coast near Wellington, New Zealand. On this website you'll find links to some of my projects I'm involved (past and present). Some of the groups I am playing with lare the Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band (a 7 piece jazz, blues and swing machine playing original swing and second line music) Uprights Quintet (featuring my own original jazz and boogaloo music) , JellyRoll Blues and the Pussycat Dues, (honky tonk piano trio) The Funky Beatles, (4 jazzmen playing music from the Fab 4). You'll find links to these below.
On the teaching page you will find some information about drum lessons and about my own education. (I'll be opening up a studio for drum lessons here in Raumati soon so stayed tuned!).
Thanks again for visiting:)
Mike.
My name is Mike Jensen, welcome to my website. I am a musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Raumati Beach, on the beautiful Kapiti Coast near Wellington, New Zealand. On this website you'll find links to some of my projects I'm involved (past and present). Some of the groups I am playing with lare the Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band (a 7 piece jazz, blues and swing machine playing original swing and second line music) Uprights Quintet (featuring my own original jazz and boogaloo music) , JellyRoll Blues and the Pussycat Dues, (honky tonk piano trio) The Funky Beatles, (4 jazzmen playing music from the Fab 4). You'll find links to these below.
On the teaching page you will find some information about drum lessons and about my own education. (I'll be opening up a studio for drum lessons here in Raumati soon so stayed tuned!).
Thanks again for visiting:)
Mike.
UPRIGHTS QUINTET
Makin' Changes Recorded in 2013 at Bluebarn studios, Wellington, this album features 5 of my compositions and 4 of my good friends helping me make it! Get the album from bandcamp here: http://uprightsquintet.bandcamp.com/ |
ROSENEATH CENTENNIAL RAGTIME BAND
Ooh Ma baby EP Ooh Ma baby EP crosses different territories from R&B to calypso and trad jazz. It was recorded in Wellington in 2013. Get the new e.p from band camp here: www.roseneathcentennialragtimeband. bandcamp.com www.roseneathband.com Below is a track that I wrote from the EP called "Dead Man Walking". https://soundcloud.com/michaeljensennz/aint-nobodys-business-if-i-do
https://soundcloud.com/michaeljensennz/aint-nobodys-business-if-i-do
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ROSENEATH CENTENNIAL RAGTIME BAND “
In the melting pot of turn of the century New Orleans, jazz, the blues and ragtime was the music for every occasion and station in life – from christening parties to funeral parades and every liquor-fuelled dance floor in between. Wellington’s Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band specialise in this hypnotic and irresistible musical force of nature that pulls heartstrings, shakes booties and stomps feet”. (T. Rodwell) Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band Recorded in a day at the Surgery Studios, In homage to "how they used to make em", this 12 track album is the debut album for the Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band and features a mix of trad tunes such as St Louis Blues and Gloryland, and originals by Dayle Jellyman and myself. Get the album here: www.roseneathcentennialragtimeband. bandcamp.com |
Here are some of the other projects that I have been lucky to be involved with as well:
GIRAFFE AFTERMATH:
Recorded at The Farm In Vancouver, BC, Canada. Reggae/dub duo, Giraffe Aftermath. IVA LANKUM:
Iva Lamkum's debut EP. Features the tune Kung Fu Grip, which was nominated for Peoples Choice Award at the 2008 Vodafone NZ Music Awards. http://www.last.fm/music/Iva+Lamkum |
STOREHOUSE:
Storehouse is a duo consisting of Tom Rodwell and Colleen Davis. They specialize in haunting blues, calypso and traditional gospel. http://storehouse.tsohost.co.uk/ NIKO NEZNA:
Balkan Brass all the way from Wellington New Zealand, an 8 piece party band! https://www.facebook.com/nikoneznanz |