Jazz Articles about Arne Fors

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Arne Fors: Where Is the Moon?

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2002

There is some music (a lot of it, actually) about which I’m hardly qualified to advance an opinion. Usually, but not always, the music consists of melodies I’ve not heard before played by a single instrumentalist, as is the case with Where Is the Moon? by Swedish pianist Arne Forsén. Most of what Forsén plays is melodic (also quite percussive), and much of it (I assume) is improvised, even though it’s no easy matter to recognize when composition gives way ...