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A Musical Portrait Of Cortex

By Centro d'Arte Padova | Centro d'Arte
July 25, 2018
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For this new installment of our "50/50" series, we asked the members of Cortex (Thomas Johansson, Kristoffer Berre Alberts, Ola Høyer, Gard Nilssen), one of the most interesting groups in the burgeoning Norwegian jazz scene, to choose five tracks that inspired them in their music making. We then completed the selection with five other tracks taken from the band's already rich discography.

Playlist

Cortex "Opening" from Live! (Clean Feed) 00:00
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath "Mra" from Brotherhood of Breath (RCA) 07:36
Cortex "Grinder" from Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed) 12:35
Yosuke Yamashita Trio "Double Helix" from Frozen Days (Crown) 18:13
Cortex "Higgs" from Live in New York (Clean Feed) 22:56
Wayne Shorter "Lost" from The Soothsayer (Blue Note) 30:44
Cortex "Waltz" from Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed) 37:58
Don Cherry "Symphony for Improvisers" from Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note) 43:49
Cortex "Gray Matter" from Live! (Clean Feed) 1:03:28
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan "Small Town" from Small Town (ECM) 1:11:59

About Cortex

Instrument: Band / orchestra

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