Jazz Articles about Arild Andersen

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Arild Andersen Group: Electra

by John Kelman
October 3, 2005

With the exception of saxophonist Jan Garbarek, fellow Norwegian Arild Andersen--who has a considerably smaller discography as a leader--has created some of the ECM label's most stylistically diverse music since the early 1970s. From exploring the nexus of traditional folk music and improvisation on Sagn to the fusion-centric Molde Concert, the spontaneous composition of Karta and the Nordic Cool-meets-string quartet of Hyperborean, Andersen has explored a host of different angles from which to approach his personal jazz-centricity. And by combining ...

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Arild Andersen/Vassilis Tsabropoulos/John Marshall: The Triangle

by AAJ Staff
July 2, 2004

For a player with a background in classical music, pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos has done wonders in the realm of jazz, and specifically improvisation. He still plays with a precise, sensitive touch and measures out dissonance in carefully metered pinches, but the tidal ebb and flow that characterizes this trio recording stands as remarkable evidence that he's made the transition completely and elegantly.

Triangle is so named more for the shared space than any sort of angular edges to ...

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Arild Andersen / Vassilis Tsaboropoulos / John Marshall: The Triangle

by John Kelman
May 11, 2004

What a difference four years and touring time can make. The Triangle, the follow-up to 2000's sublime trio recording Achirana, shows a group that has grown in leaps and bounds, becoming something more, something larger. Clearly Vassillis Tsaboropoulos, an established classical pianist whose first recording of improvised music was Achirana, has evolved. While the thrust of the trio remains in chamber jazz, his playing is more extroverted. “Straight" and the 5/4 piece “Saturday" demonstrate a new-found brightness, and ...

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Arild Andersen: Rarum XIX: Selected Recordings

by Charlie B. Dahan
April 9, 2004

Arild Andersen’s career as a bassist of high regard without much public notoriety, particularly in North America, is explored on this latest ECM reissue. Like the rest of the Rarum series, the label turns the reins over to the artist in choosing from their various ECM sides and has the subject artist write the liner notes—Andersen’s reissue is no exception, and it helps make an excellent package. The collection features both Andersen’s work with his own ensemble, ...