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Bugge Wesseltoft (New Conception of Jazz): Moving
by John Eyles
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 ...
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by Ian Nicolson
Which brings us to Norwegian Grammy-winning pianist and composer Wesseltoft's latest for his own Jazzland label. Halfway between the lounge lizard irony of Dimitri from Paris and the lyrical quartet settings of Dave Brubeck or the acoustic Herbie Hancock, Sharing is one of those mould-breaking sets that tend to outlast the vagaries of musical fashion.Wesseltoft is as much producer and soundscape artist as composer and star of this double CD, and he's shipped in intensely catchy elements from ...
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