Jazz Articles about Arild Andersen

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Arild Andersen: Celebration

by John Kelman
June 20, 2012

Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009--from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year's Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned writing, Die Blaue Klang (Wolke Verlag, 2010), and the follow-up to 1996's much coveted and out-of-print Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story (Lars Müller ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

by Karl Ackermann
May 21, 2010

More than forty years ago, Norwegian bassist, Arild Andersen joined saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the late Finnish drummer Edward Vesala to record the groundbreaking Triptykon (ECM 1972), one of these musicians' most energized work. It's a happy coincidence that the new millennium has seen both Garbarek and Andersen--ECM artists, both--create what may be their individual masterpieces--Live at Belleville, in the bassist's case. Andersen's intervening ECM years have generated an impressive catalog of high quality work including Molde Concert (1982), Sagn ...

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Arild Andersen: Green Into Blue - Early Quartets

by John Kelman
May 18, 2010

He's one of Norway's “Big Four"—a group of artists who, with the assistance of the emerging ECM label in the early 1970s, kick-started international focus on the music from a country that, despite its relatively small population, has become a truly vital force in the evolution of jazz over the past 40 years. Alongside saxophonist Jan Garbarek, guitarist Terje Rypdal and drummer Jon Christensen—as well as Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson—bassist Arild Andersen has been responsible for a real paradigm shift, ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 17, 2009

Colto dal vivo nell'omonimo club di Oslo, Live at Belleville è il coronamento di un tour europeo iniziato a Uppsala, in Svezia, da questo nuovo trio del contrabbassista norvegese Arild Andersen. Cambio deciso di direzione rispetto al precedente raffinato ed orchestrale Electra che segna il ritorno a una formazione asciutta e rigorosa, di stampo più jazzistico. Qui troviamo infatti un trio caratterizzato da grande equilibrio e doti tecniche. Il leader è affiancato dal sassofonista scozzese Tommy Smith e dal compagno ...

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Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville

by John Kelman
November 18, 2008

The general international perception of Norway's jazz scene as “Nordic Cool," is, like most generalizations, inevitably distanced from truth. Atomic, The Core and Motif may possess no shortage of heat, but ECM has undeniably helped define that unmistakable Norwegian aesthetic. One of the “big four," brought to international attention in the early 1970s alongside guitarist Terje Rypdal, saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and drummer Jon Christensen, bassist Arild Andersen's ECM releases have largely avoided the kind of burning improvisational energy of his ...

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Arild Andersen / Frode Alnaes / Stian Carstensen: Hostslov (Autumn Slow)

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 9, 2006

Høstsløv (Autumn Slow) is the third seasonal offering by the Norwegian bass master Arild Andersen and two of his fellow countrymen, guitarist Frode Alnæs and accordionist Stian Carstensen, after covering traditional Norwegian summer songs on Sommerbrisen (Summer Breeze) (KKV, 1998) and old and new Christmas carols on Julegløggen (KKV, 2003). Høstsløv is another collection of familiar songs, played in a joyful and relaxed manner with loads of grace and charm.

Andersen and Alnæs have been collaborating for more ...

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Ferenc Snétberger: Nomad

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2006

Il chitarrista ungherese Ferenc Snétberger, già autore di alcuni dischi per la Enja, tra cui il recente Balance, firma con questo lavoro la sua opera più matura, portando a compimento un cammino artistico che lo ha condotto attraverso la musica classica (Snétberger suona principalmente la chitarra classica con corde di nylon), la musica tzigana, e il jazz. Tutti questi elementi si fondono ora mirabilmente mella sua musica, grazie anche all'apporto prezioso di due collaboratori come il contrabbassista Arild Andersen e ...