Jazz Articles about Åsne Fossmark

About Åsne Fossmark

Album Review

Is there anybody up there? The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds: NASA's lunar program is about to celebrate All About Jazz's 35th anniversary with the start of construction of a permanent lunar base (2030), laying the foundations for AAJ's 50th anniversary with its completion. Jazz will win: once the planet's taxpayers' money has been squandered, the economic interest found to be close to nil, and the scientific interest, still the fifth wheel, only AAJ (Thirty Years Later, ...

Album Review

When I Return: The Weight of Bloom

Read "The Weight of Bloom" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège
June 9, 2026

In an ample, John Coltrane-like gesture, the primordial song takes flight, ultimately culminating in the sublime “Part III: Rise." At this point, the sounds are capable of drawing us back to the beginning of the album. But let us rewind. When I Return is a septet whose singular voices met in the early 2020s in the legendary jazz bachelor programme of the University of Trondheim under the guidance of the revered Erling Aksdal. Driven by shared sensibilities and ...