Jazz Articles about Bugge Wesseltoft

Bugge Wesseltoft at the London Jazz Festival 2008

by Marcus O'Dair
December 8, 2008

Bugge WesseltoftLondon Jazz Festival 2008King's PlaceLondon, EnglandNovember 15, 2008

Having attended the Peter Brotzmann gig earlier the same night, I arrived at Bugge Wesseltoft's show a little late. It's a surprise to see the Norwegian--best known for the embrace of electronics in so-called nu-jazz, or what he terms his New Conception Of Jazz--playing solo piano. It's even more of a surprise when he launches into that most hackneyed of jazz standards, Paul Desmond's ...

Bugge Wesseltoft: IM

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 23, 2008

Il fondatore dell'etichetta Jazzland, dopo anni di album collettivi basati su elettronica e tastiere, ritorna, con questo IM, a sonorità più intimiste, solitarie ed acustiche. Non si tratta però di un disco rigorosamente acustico, ma di accurate e raffinate sequenze al pianofotorte alternate a registrazioni sul campo (l'Africa e le sue guerre sulle frequenze della BBC - come ben illustrato sulle note di copertina), a tratti di cultura e musica Sami (con Mari Boine Persen) e componenti soul, tipiche della ...

Bugge Wesseltoft: IM

by John Kelman
November 3, 2007

Following a series of releases that, under the imprint “New Conception of Jazz," find the place where improvisation, jazz and dance club beats meet, pianist Bugge Wesseltoft's IM might be considered a significant departure. And significant it is, though it won't be a complete surprise to those who have either attended Norway's Punkt festival, or have either heard the Jazzland Community's self-titled 2007 disc or seen the group in performance. Like Community saxophonist Hakon Kornstad's Single Engine (Jazzland, 2007), IM ...

Lars Danielsson: Melange Bleu

by John Kelman
April 21, 2007

Music--improvised or scored--is inextricably linked with how it's arranged or orchestrated, a point made crystal clear by Lars Danielsson's Mélange Bleu. The bonus track on the Swedish bassist/cellist/ pianist's Libera Me (ACT, 2004) hinted at the direction Danielsson would take on Mélange Blue--a blending of acoustic instruments, concert orchestra and technology to create a lush new mix (or Mélange) that retains Danielsson's innate lyricism, but places it in the sonic realm of Nu Jazz. With some of ...

Lars Danielsson: Mélange Bleu

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2007

Ormai lanciato sulla strada di altri scandinavi, come Nils Petter Molvaer e Bugge Wesseltoft (non a caso presenti nell’organico), il contrabbassista, violoncellista e pianista Lars Danielsson si spinge un po’ oltre il precedente lavoro Libera me (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) e mette in scena un album molto artefatto, elettrificato e ricreato in studio (il mitico Rainbow Studio di Oslo, sotto la supervisione dell’ingegnere del suono Jan Erik Kongshaus). Ecco così che gli strumenti sono ampiamente sostituiti da sampler, ...

Bugge Wesseltoft: New Conception of Jazz Live

by Colin Buttimer
November 9, 2003

Reflective electric piano chords, the tsk tsk of percussion – it could almost be the the first half of a '70s buildup to a souljazz masterpiece – there’s a little electric bass, the occasional unidentifiable sound and then suddenly the marshal pulse of an electronic house rhythm sounds out accompanied by the low growl of an electric bass. Instead of resolving immediately, the music sounds like the players are feeling their way abetted by the ebb and flow of DJ ...

Bugge Wesseltoft (New Conception of Jazz): Moving

by John Eyles
June 1, 2001

With his 1998 album, Sharing, Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft made people sit up and take notice. In the tidal wave of verbiage at the end of the last Millenium, he was more than once hailed as “the future of jazz." His music is a hybrid, containing elements of rock, dub, ambient, funk and techno. But it has enough recognisable jazz elements to justify the “New Conception of Jazz" subtitle. Its echoes of Bill Evans “New Jazz Conceptions," give that subtitle an ...