Jazz Articles about Andres Thor

About Andres Thor

Album Review

Icelandic guitarist Andres Thor has spent the better part of two decades quietly building a catalog that swings between Nordic chamber-jazz and something closer to countrified twang, and on Relocate the splits the difference again, this time with a jazz trio featuring French bassist Nico Moreaux and Icelandic drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen. The record follows the trio's 2022 debut, Hereby on Losen Records. Nine tracks, forty minutes, not a wasted motion--this is a band that has clearly done its homework ...

Album Review

Andres Thor: Paradox

Read "Paradox" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 8, 2020

Guitarist Andrés Thor leaves little to be desired on his new recording Paradox. Featuring an all-star cast of New Yorkers Orlando Le Fleming and Ari Hoenig, as well as Icelandic compatriot Agnar Magnusson, Thor delivers a quiet set of original material which finds a quartet cautiously feeling its way through the changes. The guitar's smooth tone blends into the compositional frames with ease, and the accompanying instruments follow suit. Climactic moments and special tensions aren't born out of ...

Album Review

Andres Thor: Nordic Quartet

Read "Nordic Quartet" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 30, 2014

Even though it is a small country, Iceland has produced many interesting jazz musicians. Among them, pianists Sunna Gunnlaugs and Eythor Gunnarsson, saxophonist Óscar Gudjónsson and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Add to this list guitarist Andrés Thor. As a musician, Thor has the distinctive lyrical beauty of many of his countrymen, but he is also a cosmopolitan at heart who stretches across geographical boundaries and this is reflected on his album Nordic Quartet. His group includes Danish bassist ...