Jazz Articles about Food

Food: Last Supper

by John Kelman
January 27, 2005

On the basis of its title, Last Supper may be the final recording of the Anglo/ Norwegian group Food. And that's a shame, because over the course of four albums Food has evolved from a group of interesting free improvisers to an ensemble that organically blends electronics with said free improvisation, creating a distinctive voice that reflects not only the strong personalities of all involved, but a group identity that manages to be strangely accessible and highly compelling.

Food: Last Supper

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 23, 2004

The Norwegian-English quartet Food keeps refining the mostly Norwegian brand of mixing free-form modern jazz and warm electronica, begun on its last recording ( Veggie , Rune Grammofon, 2002), in a much more subtle and transparent manner than found on other Norwegian contemporary releases by musicians like keyboard player Bugge Wesseltoft or trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer.

Food consists of English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, once among the vanguard of the British fusion in bands such as drummer Bill Bruford's ...

Food: Veggie

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2002

The quartet known as Food should perhaps lengthen their name to ‘Food For Thought.’ Veggie, their third release and first for the Norwegian Rune Grammofon label, delivers a seven course meal with, as they say, plenty to chew on.

The band formed in 1998 for the Molde Jazz Festival when the English saxophonist Iain Ballamy (Loose Tube, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks) hooked up with this Norwegian trio. That performance produced Food Feral Records (1999) and followed it with the ...