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Bugge & Henning: Last Spring
by John Kelman
With such a focus on jazz, it's easy to forget that, at the end of the day, all music is--or, at least, comes from-- improvised music. Whether drawn from the ether and performed in real time or written down on manuscript, it's still drawn from the ether. Classical music has its own history in improvisation, ranging from Beethoven to Mendelssohn. Folk music, too, has its history of extemporization. So when ACT's label head, Siggi Loch, suggested that Norwegian violinist/violist Henning ...
read moreBugge Wesseltoft: Songs
by John Kelman
After John Scofield released his balladic A Moment's Peace (EmArcy, 2011), the guitarist revealed, in an 2011 All About Jazz interview, that the original plan was to record with Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft. It may not have come to pass, but based on Songs, it sure sounds as though these two artists--geographically distanced by thousands of miles--were in remarkable simpatico.A Moment's Peace is still a group record, and if it doesn't ever boil over, it manages a simmer ...
read morePaolo Vinaccia: Very Much Alive
by AAJ Italy Staff
Paolo Vinaccia è un batterista e compositore italiano che dal 1979 ha scelto la Norvegia come patria di adozione. Qui si è costruito una reputazione che lo ha portato a incidere con i migliori musicisti della scena scandinava, a partecipare a oltre cento incisioni, ad essere uno dei batteristi più richiesti, grazie alla grande duttilità che lo porta a suonare con naturalezza in contesti disparati. Vi è un gruppo però con il quale Vinaccia negli ultimi anni si è esibito ...
read moreVery Much Alive
by John Kelman
[NOTE]: This review is being republished as a celebration of just one aspect of the life of drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on July 5, 2019. Best-known in Norway, where he emigrated from Italy in 1979, enjoying a busy career with artists including Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Mike Mainieri, Bendik Hofseth, Bugge Wesseltoft and Palle Mikkelborg, amongst many others. Vinaccia's big heart and warm concern for others made him everybody's best friend, and ...
read moreBugge Wesseltoft: It's Snowing on My Piano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Meglio conosciuto come fondatore della Jazzland e per aver coniato il termine NuJazz, Bugge Wesseltoft, con le 12 canzoni di Natale di It's Snowing on My Piano, album pubblicato nel 1997, destò una grande sensazione. Grazie all'originalità del suo tocco al pianoforte è riuscito a rimuovere l'alone di patinato e kitsch che spesso accompagna i lavori a tema natalizio, realizzandone uno molto bello, in cui i canti tradizionali scandinavi ed europei in genere assumono un respiro unico, di grande profondità ...
read moreBugge Wesseltoft: Playing
by John Kelman
As a successor to the impressive IM (Jazzland, 2007), pianist Bugge Wesseltoft continues to explore the powerful potential of solo performance. Like IM--and no surprise to those familiar with his seamless integration of technology into real-time performance on his New Conception of Jazz series--Wesseltoft uses sound processing and real-time looping to create a modernistic successor to Keith Jarrett's solo innovations. Pulling form out of the air as paramount, Wesseltoft may be less overtly virtuosic but shares Jarrett's ability to create ...
read moreBugge Wesseltoft: New Conception of Jazz Box
by John Kelman
Bugge Wesseltoft New Conceptions of Jazz Box Jazzland Records 2008 While the Norwegian jazz scene has been pursuing its own course for decades, the period of 1996-1997 represented a significant watershed, a milestone where an entirely new kind of music emerged, linked to jazz but distanced considerably--some might say completely, but they'd be mistaken--from its roots in the American tradition. Three seminal and groundbreaking albums were released within a year of each other: trumpeter Nils ...
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