Jazz Articles about Arve Henriksen

Arve Henriksen: Solidification

by Henning Bolte
March 9, 2013

Arve Henriksen is one of today's most innovative, creative and busiest musicians in improvised music and jazz. He has his very own signature--first as a highly characteristic trumpeter/singer, but on other instruments and vocals, too. Those who only know him from his Cartography (ECM, 2008) or through his numerous sideman appearances, do not really know him--at least, not well enough.Solidification is a wonderful remedy, a worthwhile dig. This limited edition, seven-LP box set contains the music from his ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by John Kelman
July 4, 2012

Increasingly well-known to ECM fans for his work with Christian Wallumrod, Trygve Seim and Jon Balke, Cartography is Arve Henriksen's debut as a leader for the label. A logical successor to his impressive Rune Grammofon discs--Sakuteiki (2001), Chiaroscuro (2004) and Strjon (2007)--it's also the Norwegian trumpeter's most ambitious release to date.Post-production has always figured in Henriksen's work, but his previous releases have been either solo or with small, consistent line-ups. Recorded over three years in the studio and ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 22, 2009

Arve Henriksen Cartography ECM 2008

Talking about the album Cartography, trumpeter Arve Henriksen says, “...I've been feeling uncomfortable with the idea of ending up playing 'improvised jazz.'" It's an unusual thing to say, particularly coming from a musician who has contributed vitally to a host of releases on ECM, one of the most celebrated jazz labels in the world. Is he opposed to improvisation, or to jazz? Or both? It turns out ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by Dan McClenaghan
May 8, 2009

The components of sound that make-up Arve Henriksen's Cartography, the trumpeter's debut as a leader on ECM, reads like a hyper-processed, low-nutrition, junk food for the ear brew: samples, treatments, synthesizer, dictaphone, programming, beats, voice samples. It is a stew of musical inputs, a layering of sounds that mixes ambient and electronica with snippets of soaring vocal segments and a dash of spoken word into a reverberant, in-the-cathedral solemnity, with Henriksen's gentle-breeze of a sound, his often voice-like trumpet in ...

Arve Henriksen with Orchestra at London Jazz Festival 2008

by Marcus O'Dair
December 4, 2008

Arve HenriksenLondon Jazz Festival 2008Kings Place, LondonNovember 14, 2008The solo violin piece from Charles Mutter and the improvised duet between trumpeter Arve Henriksen and live samplist Jan Bang both have their moments, while John Orford's (intentionally?) hilarious distorted bassoon solo wins almost the biggest cheer of the night. Yet the highlights of this opening night of the London Jazz Festival's Scene Norway program were without doubt the ensembles, teaming Henriksen, Bang and fellow Norwegian Thomas ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 27, 2008

Il timbro della sua tromba ha ammaliato e fatto brillare diverse produzioni ECM, fino ad arrivare a questo Cartography che dovrebbe consacrare Arve Henriksen presso un pubblico più vasto. Album di intensa vena poetica e spontanea creatività, muove i suoi passi in un ambito difficile da definire, con paesaggi sonori a cavallo tra le musiche per film e la contemporanea colta. Opera giocata su accostamenti timbrici, rielaborazioni live e registrazioni in studio, mostra grande maturità e competenza, e non solo ...

Poolplayers: Way Below the Surface

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2008

Poolplayers è un progetto nato dall’idea di Benoît Delbecq di mettere a confronto alcuni dei più interessanti improvvisatori della scena europea. Una musica lenta e introspettiva, quella di questo Way Below the Surface, quasi immobile, ad evocare atmosfere notturne e sotterranee di grande lirismo. Le strutture apparentemente semplici, sono in realtà più ermetiche e complesse, il linguaggio estremamente personale e l’improvvisazione gioca un ruolo determinante nei fraseggi. Opera di grande spessore, appare come un ologramma sonoro, muta lentamente e non ...