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Espen Berg

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Espen Berg (b. 1983) has been touring around the world since 2003, and has collaborated with artists such as Trondheim Jazzorkester, Marius Neset, Seamus Blake, Silje Nergaard, Mathias Eick, Hildegunn Øiseth, Daniel Herskedal, Mats Eilertsen and many more. He has played on 28 albums, of which 10 as a leader, and is frequently touring in Europe and Asia with Espen Berg Trio, which will be releasing its fourth album in May 2022. Espen was awarded Norway’s largest jazz scholarship «JazZtipendiatet» at Molde Int’l Jazz Festival 2016, which consists of a commissioned work for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, premiering at Moldejazz in 2017

Album

Water Fabric

Label: Odin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sun Glacier; Circumzenithal; 1914; Hydrophobic; Acres Of Dew; Duelling Rivers; Triple Point Suite.

Album

Inner View

Label: NXN Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Biom I Løvtraer; Biom II Barskog; Biom III Tundra; Bidevind; Bismaksprøve; Bismarksvals; Bibringeren; Bi Iitt!;

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sophie Alour, Quinsin Nachoff, African Jazz Roots, Andrea Keller & More

Read "Sophie Alour, Quinsin Nachoff, African Jazz Roots, Andrea Keller & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If this episode of Mondo Jazz could be summarized in a flow-chart it would be something like: West-African tinged European jazz ?? jazz meets (symphonic or chamber) classical music ?? electro-acoustic chamber jazz. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Csaba Palotai, Simon Drappier, ...

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Article: Album Review

Espen Berg: Water Fabric

Read "Water Fabric" reviewed by Chris May


The Norwegian pianist and composer Espen Berg has already carved out a formidable reputation with his trio. Earlier in 2023 he began a parallel strand with The Trondheim Concert (NXN), the recording of a wholly in-the-moment improvised solo concert, in the Keith Jarrett tradition, which he gave in 2019. Berg has since released two more albums ...

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Article: Album Review

Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse: Inner View

Read "Inner View" reviewed by Chris May


Since George Russell published his influential Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization in 1953, other jazz musicians have attempted to reforge the theoretical construct of their music--with varying degrees of success and including some egregiously posturing examples of b.s. which bring to mind Hans Christian Andersen's salutary story The Emperor's New Clothes. One ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Espen Berg: The Trondheim Concert

Read "Espen Berg: The Trondheim Concert" reviewed by Chris May


The idea of free improvisation means different things to different people. For some it suggests the lineage that began with the so-called “energy players" of the late 1960s, musically untutored berserkers whose enthusiasm for Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders inspired them to pick up a horn and play whatever notes fell at random under ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

Read "Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play" reviewed by Chris May


If you ask a jazz fan to name the greatest piano-trio albums ever made, the probability is that their top twenty choices will include most, if not all, of the following: Erroll Garner's Concert By The Sea (Columbia, 1955), Ahmad Jamal's But Not For Me (Argo, 1958), Bill Evans's Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961), ...

Album

The Trondheim Concert

Label: NXN Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8; Part 9; Part 10.

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Album:
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Label: NXN Recordings
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:04


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