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Bruno R: Ascensio
by Jerry D'Souza
Bruno Råberg’s third album as leader is firmly concerned with form. The bassist has played in bands of different stylistic pursuits, like Orange Then Blue, which threw everything from free form to mainstream jazz into the stewing pot; and with Eje Thelin, whose band swiped the caboodle from dixieland to free jazz. Here Råberg is contained. He prefers structure to intuitive freedom. While he does not completely tighten the leash, this would have been a more interesting recording had the ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Bassist Bruno Raberg continues to intertwine Scandinavian folk themes with modern jazz style dialogue and invention on compositions such as “Runestones” and elsewhere on this newly released project titled, Presence. Yet, the bassist along with multi-reedman Ole Mathisen and drummer Marcello Pellitteri perform a series of imaginative and at times meditative pieces while maintaining a noticeable degree of solidarity, warmth and depth. Throughout, the listener is treated to Mathisen’s airy choruses, Raberg’s booming yet disciplined multifunctional bass lines and Pellitteri’s ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Swedish born jazz bassist/educator Bruno Raberg displays a fine compositional pen on his 1998 release titled Orbis. With sympathetic support from legendary drummer Bob Moses, pianist Tim Ray, and saxophonist Ole Mathisen, the bassist fuses Scandinavian folk with 90’s style modern jazz-funk rhythms and melodically tinged themes on the albums opener, “Runes”. Throughout, Bob Moses is a master at pushing and prodding the soloists without becoming obtrusive or distracting while Raberg is the traffic cop as he directs the band ...
Continue ReadingBruno Raberg: Orbis
by Paula Edelstein
One of Sweden's most innovative bassists, Bruno Raberg, serves up exciting references to the folk music of Scandinavia with the assistance of drum legend Bob Moses, pianist extraordinaire Tim Ray and sax master Ole Mathisen on this 1998 release titled Orbis. This exciting coexistence of jazz, funk and world music is relayed on nine compositions written by Bruno Raberg, an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. Raberg finds a kindred melodic and rhythmic spirit in Ole Mathisen on “Forest ...
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