Jazz Articles about Caffeine Petrol

Caffeine Petrol: Nosejob

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 20, 2014

The jazz department of the NTNU university in Trondheim, Norway keeps presenting gifted and opinionated musicians that challenge conventional perspectives on genres and styles. The new power trio Caffeine Petrol--guitarist Gudmund Bolstad Skjær, who wrote all the trio pieces, bassist Fredrik Gundersen and drummer Martin Sandvik-- demonstrate how any neo-jazz-cons attempt to frame jazz aesthetics in clear, linear, historical or geographical musical boundaries is futile. These young musicians do not bother themselves with such intellectual abstractions. They focus on the ...