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Tread Lightly
Label: Losen Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Flirt; Partysvensken; Just Thinking; Sarah's Bounce; Feline Dreams; Armadillo Dance; Interlid; Tread Lightly; I
Remember This; Denne.
Norway in a Nutshell
by Emily Jones
Every year around 30 jazz promoters and journalists from Europe and the USA make a pilgrimage to the city of Bergen in the west of Norway to experience Nutshell. Established by the various organisations who export Norwegian music, Nutshell showcases the best Norwegian jazz of the moment amidst the incredible scenery of fjords and mountains that ...
JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2018
by Jakob Baekgaard
JazzNorway in a Nutshell Bergen, Norway May 23-27, 2018 If anyone should be in doubt, Norwegian jazz is thriving. Through many years, the musicians in Norway have continued to refine what might be called a particularly Norwegian approach to the jazz tradition. It is not about repeating any preconceived ideas ...
440 Keys: A Batch of Piano Delights
by Geno Thackara
It's always a pleasure to be reminded what a range of sounds just one instrument can produce. The same 88 keys can be used in endlessly different ways in different inventive hands, and this batch of recordings has several masterful performers taking that starting point toward quite eclectic ends. Dag Arnesen Trio Pentagon ...
Hristo Vitchev / Liubomia Krastev: Rhodopa
by Jakob Baekgaard
While jazz as an art form always moves forward, it is also tied to tradition and the music of the past. Many jazz musicians with European ties have found inspiration in the folk music of their country: Jan Johansson's Jazz på svenska, Dag Arnesen's Norwegian Song 1-3 and Sunna Gunnlaugs Songs from Iceland are some of ...
Losen Records: New Norwegian Sounds
by Jakob Baekgaard
Mention the phrase the Norwegian sound" and many listeners will get an image in their head. An image of a natural, deep echoing sound influenced by the mountains and hills of the Norwegian landscape. Such an image is, of course, a cliché, but to some critics it has stuck and distorted the rich fertility of the ...
Traeben: Push
by Ian Patterson
A large gap separating a band's CDs usually signals a change in direction. Danish/Dutch combo Traeben's debut, Nordic Project (D.A.P Records, 2008), presented jazz reworkings of Danish and Swedish folk songs, following the lead of Swedish jazz musicians including trumpeter Bengt-Arne Wallin and pianist Jan Johansson in the 1960s, and Norwegian pianist Dag Arnesen in the ...
Norwegian Song 2
By Dag Arnesen
Label: Resonant Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Eg rodde meg ut på seiegrunnnen (Strilevise) / The Fisherman's Song; Morgenstemning / Morning Mood; Blåmann, Blåmann; Dalebu Jonson; Dei vil allltid klaga og kyta / The Others May Fuss and May Worry); Kjerringa med staven / The Old Woman with the Staff; Med en primula veris (Du vårens milde, skjønne barn) / The First Primrose (O Gentle Maiden, Child of Spring); Nils Tallefjorden; Den skyldige / The Guilty; Eg gjette Tulla i 15 ar / My Tulla; Mellom bakkar og berg / 'Mong the Rocks by the North Sea's Blue Waters.
Francesco Turrisi: Si Dolce e il Tormento
by Ian Patterson
Turin-born Francesco Turrisi has been something of a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene since arriving on the emerald isle in 2006. In a short time he has earned a reputation as an excellent jazz pianist, percussionist and accordionist; an original voice. He can be found playing in the ebullient Balkan-flavored Yurodny, or ...