Jazz Articles about Arild Andersen

About Arild Andersen

Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff has a lot to say artistically. The Russian-born, classically-trained pianist--now home-based in North Carolina--has released eight jazz albums in the past nine years, sets that are packed to the digital rafters with close to the time limit for the CD format--in the 70-plus minute range. For Lions, the ideas spilled over onto two CDs, a ninety-four minutes of music that is--according to the set's drummer, Billy Hart--prophetic. Eckemoff has a way of working with themes, with ...

Album Review

Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Tommy Smith: Mira

Read "Mira" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 16, 2014

Registrato al leggendario Rainbow Studio di Oslo nel dicembre 2012 e uscito poco più di un anno dopo (gennaio 2014), questo album ci ripropone una delle formazioni più tipiche, esplicative, paradigmatiche, di un dato suono nordico in jazz, nello specifico veicolato attraverso un organico che nella musica afroamericana, pur con tutte le di lei progressive appendici, affonda massicciamente le proprie radici. L'impatto iniziale ci regala da subito l'abbraccio con quella straniata, fascinosa souplesse che permea l'intero lavoro, ...

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Arild Andersen / Paolo Vinaccia / Tommy Smith: Mira

by John Kelman
January 22, 2014

The debut of Arild Andersen's now longstanding trio with Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian expat drummer Paolo Vinaccia on Live at Belleville (ECM, 2008) came as no small surprise, even to those familiar with the Norwegian bassist's work on the label--dating right back to its inception on Jan Garbarek's classic Afric Pepperbird (ECM, 1971), as well as with his own fine triptych of more accessible early albums, recently collected on Green Into Blue--Early Quartets (ECM, 2010). Andersen ...

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Yelena Eckemoff Trio: Glass Song

Read "Glass Song" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 4, 2013

Russa di formazione classica, ma ormai dal 1991 trasferitasi negli USA e dedita crescentemente al jazz, la pianista Yelena Eckemoff da alcuni anni sta realizzando album in trio con formazioni talentuose, di cui quest'ultimo - con due autentiche “leggende" quali Arild Andersen e Peter Erskine - pare la punta di diamante. La musica è tutta della penna della pianista ed è senz'altro di ottima fattura, ancorché eclettica e diversificata. La cifra generale - come testimoniato peraltro anche dai titoli - ...

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Yelena Eckemoff: Glass Song

by Tyran Grillo
March 7, 2013

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff is refreshing. She has carved a niche for herself with an eye constantly trained to still newer paths. “Once I finish a project, I'm already thinking of the next one," she says, during a phone interview. But let us linger on Glass Song, before being swept away again. The album offers a set of 10 originals that finds the Russian-born pianist/composer in the company of none other than bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Peter Erskine. Astonishingly, this ...

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Yelena Eckemoff: Glass Song

by Dan Bilawsky
February 1, 2013

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff got a late start as a full-fledged jazz recording artist but she's making up for lost time. Eckemoff entered the artistic world as a young classical pianist in the Soviet Union, but she chose to put her work on hold for a spell while raising her children. Eventually, she returned to the piano with renewed creativity energy, but only after leaving her native land. In order to make the move, Eckemoff and her husband had to temporarily ...

Album Review

Arild Andersen & Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Celebration

Read "Celebration" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 11, 2012

Arild Andersen è certamente uno dei più noti bassisti europei e questo eccellente Celebration non fa altro che rinnovare il suo profondo legame con l'etichetta ECM di Manfred Eicher. Legame che era iniziato nel 1970 con i leggendari primi album del saxofonista Jan Garbarek e del chitarrista Terje Rypdal. Album che lanciarono, allo stesso tempo, la giovane etichetta tedesca nata un anno prima e il jazz scandinavo. Parlare di 'celebrazione' è quindi cosa del tutto lecita e coincide in qualche ...