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Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air
by Geno Thackara
Quick--when you think of instruments that sound airy, what comes to mind? Piccolo, mandolin, some kind of synthesizer or possibly the theremin? Most of us would take quite some time before guessing the tuba. It takes some imagination to look past its conventional low lines and thumps, but Daniel Herskedal is just that kind of thinker. Even if the tuba's role in jazz commonly involves features or solos, it is rare to hear any player handle it with such gentleness ...
Continue ReadingNuove suggestioni dalla Norvegia: Eyolf Dale e Thomas Johansson con la Scheen Jazzorkester
by Angelo Leonardi
La norvegese Scheen Jazzorkester, nata nel 2010 nella pittoresca regione Telemark, mostra tutto il suo valore in due recenti album realizzati con il trombettista Thomas Johansson e il pianista Eyolf Dale, giovani connazionali che hanno scritto le musiche e si aggiungono all'ensemble nei rispettivi ruoli strumentali. L'organico comprende 12 musicisti--alcuni di formazione classica--raccolti attorno alle prestigiose figure del batterista Audun Kleive, del pianista Rune Klakegg e del sassofonista Guttorm Guttormsen. Prima di questi lavori ha inciso già cinque ...
Continue ReadingEyolf Dale at April Jazz
by Anthony Shaw
Eyolf Dale April Jazz Espoo, Finland April 26, 2019 In keeping with the gradual arrival of spring in southern Finland and the mini festival just outside Helsinki, April Jazz, Norwegian bandleader Eyolf Dale brought a strong sense of musical color. The breadth of his musical taste runs from Shostakovich (he admits) to the Simpsons (I'm supposing), with a slight tendency towards Scandinavian melancholy. And with the broad palette of Dale's seven band ...
Continue ReadingEyolf Dale: Return To Mind
by Roger Farbey
The follow-up to Eyolf Dale's Wolf Valley released on Edition Records in 2016 is no less impressive than its predecessor. Dale employs exactly the same line-up here so there are no major surprises except that Kristoffer Kompen now doubles on euphonium, Hayden Powell doubles on flugelhorn and Per Zanussi has dropped the saw. Dale himself is fast becoming one of Norway's most prominent jazz musicians gigging widely in Europe and beyond. He's also associate professor in jazz at the Norwegian ...
Continue ReadingEyolf Dale: Wolf Valley
by Roger Farbey
Thirty one year old pianist Eyolf Dale is a leading figure in contemporary jazz in his home country of Norway and an Associate Professor of applied piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music department of jazz studies. The album's title, Wolf Valley, is actually a play on his name as in Norwegian, Eyolf means wolf and Dale means valley. This is chamber jazz of sorts, but paradoxically packing a surprisingly satisfying punch too. “Furet" initially evokes a feel ...
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