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Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours
by Chris May
Fasten your seat belt, please. Get ready for the full tilt, barely tamed, beautiful monster that is Gard Nilssen's sixteen-piece Supersonic Orchestra. Audacious and experimentalist, like everything the Norwegian drummer and composer touches, Supersonic flouts convention and, in particular, realigns the longstanding relationship between pre-composition and improvisation in orchestral jazz. If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours, its debut, was recorded live at the adventurous Molde International Jazz Festival in 2019, where Nilssen was Artist in Residence. The band's ...
Continue ReadingJazz Festival Saalfelden 2022
by Ziga Koritnik
A collection of photos from the Jazz Festival Saalfelden 2022 in Austriain from August 18, 2022 to August 21, 2022 featuring Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few, Alba Careta Group, Paal Nilssen-Love Circus, Vincent Courtois, Emilé Parisien Sextet “Louise" feat. Theo Croker, Cuong Vu, The Vijay Iyer Trio, Christoph Cech Jazz Orchestra Project, Ole Morten Vågan with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, Acoustic Unity and Bushman's Revenge, Katharina Ernst, Cansu Tanrikulu, Fabian Rucker, Mette Rasmussen, Val Jeanty, Frans ...
Continue ReadingJazzfestival Saalfelden 2022
by Stefano Merighi
Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2022 Saalfelden, Austria 18-21.8.2022 Spesso i lettori si abituano a leggere in diversi report sulla scena jazzistica accenni alla “scena scandinava," come se questa fosse un monolite che si aggira nel più ampio panorama afro-euro-americano. In realtà questa scena è policroma, polifonica, può far interagire i suoi elementi come farli brillare in progetti individuali. Come è stato dimostrato nella recente edizione del festival di Saalfelden, che ha acceso molti dei suoi riflettori su di ...
Continue ReadingA Mix Of New And Old
by Bob Osborne
This week a mix of brand new releases and classic recordings. There are fascinating new albums from Gard Nilssen, Steve Tibbetts, Daniel Carter with Evan Strauss, 5-Track, and Sheridan Riley, Alex Fournier, Trevor Watts & Liam Genocky, and, Brian Eaton. I also have some older releases from Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders, Clifford Jordan, Maria Schneider and Oliver Lake.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity “Altaret" from Elastic Wave (ECM) 00:54 Steve Tibbetts “Full Moon Dogs" from Hellbound ...
Continue ReadingGard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Elastic Wave
by Chris May
The last time we heard from Norwegian drummer Gard Nilssen as a leader was with his Supersonic Orchestra—a three-drummer, three-bassist behemoth whose 2020 album, If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin), proved that, contrary to the precedent set by Stan Kenton, it is possible to assemble a big band packing Death Star-level ordnance which nevertheless allows for subtlety, agility and humanity. Extraordinarily prolific, Nilssen has since 2007 recorded over seventy albums, a fair few of ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric
by John Sharpe
Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado hits the jackpot with the debut by his Northern Liberties quartet. He's found gifted collaborators in the Norwegian threesome of trumpeter Thomas Johansson, drummer Gard Nilssen and bassist Jon Rune Strøm. Amado's preferred domain is muscular free jazz. It's territory he's thoroughly explored with his Motion Trio, supplemented by guests like trumpeter Peter Evans and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, and with his This Is Our Language band with Joe McPhee. While the Scandinavian ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado Northern Liberties: We Are Electric
by Mark Corroto
The predicament with modern albums is that an album is often more than just one album. With the advent of streaming music, and compact discs before it, music expands beyond the unit we traditionally designated as side one or side two of an LP. A perfect example of this concept is We Are Electric by the Portuguese-Norwegian collaboration Rodrigo Amado Northern Liberties. Three of the four tracks here could easily be considered a freestanding LP side and, if that were ...
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