Jazz Articles about Harmen Fraanje

About Harmen Fraanje

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Arve Henriksen: The Touch of Time

Read "The Touch of Time" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell
April 4, 2024

Nordic trumpeter Arve Henriksen has played jazz, metal, folk, eclectic world music--with a nod to Japanese flute--and more. That caused at least one DJ to tell Henriksen “you are the musical chameleon." He will politely acknowledge that statement but has consistently returned to his chosen ground zero of ambient jazz dominated by subtle improvisation. When Henriksen started playing in the '80s, he often collaborated with other musicians based, like him, in Norway. Since he began recording at the turn of ...

Album Review

Mats Eilertsen Trio & Trio Mediaeval: Memorabilia

Read "Memorabilia" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
August 25, 2020

Talk of an album sounding highly reminiscent of something that could be released on Manfred Eicher's ECM label is quite common. But it does not come as a surprise anymore that much of today's music shares similar melancholic and minimalist contemporary leanings with the aesthetic found on the pioneering Munich-based label. However, this debut date, led between bassist Mats Eilertsen, his trio and Trio Mediaeval, screams ECM. Not only have both Eilertsen and the vocal trio recorded extensively with ECM, ...

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Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon

by John Kelman
July 29, 2016

It's no news to learn that we're the confluence of our many experiences: life, love, music....everything that we are comes from where we've been, what we've done, what we've experienced. That said, it doesn't mean that we can't move in completely new directions or try something completely foreign to us. Still, it's almost impossible to do anything--even things that are intentionally new and different--without there being some inescapable links to our past. With Mats Eilertsen's evocative Rubicon, the double bassist ...