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Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Enfant Terrible

Read "Enfant Terrible" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 20, 2014

While making noise with her debut, Shoot! (Rune Grammofon, 2011), it was with All Them Witches (Rune Grammofon, 2013)--and subsequent touring that took her from her home country of Norway, playing at festivals like the 2013 Molde International Jazz Festival, to a short North American tour this year--that guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen's career really took off. Alongside Pixel, Hedvig Mollestad Trio represents some of the most exciting music from a new generation of Norwegian musicians, though the two groups couldn't ...

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Hedvig Mollestad Trio: All of Them Witches

Read "All of Them Witches" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
May 18, 2013

It may well be sexist to suggest that there are few female heavy rock guitarists. Still, as society moves towards greater equity among the genders, there are thankfully a lot more talented and intrepid women transcending conventional expectations of their “place" in music--and few countries exemplifying this more than Norway. Sidsel Endresen may be a singer, but she's far from the norm; saxophonists like Frøy Aagre and Hanna Paulsberg are pushing their own jazz boundaries, as is trumpeter Gunhild Seim. ...

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Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Shoot!

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2012

Le scarnissime note di copertina dicono poco o nulla di questo power trio norvegese capitanato nientemeno che da una chitarrista hard rock, come si sarebbe detto una volta, che risponde al nome di Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen. È lei la bionda che vedete in copertina e che spara riff al fulmicotone e sventaglia assoli granitici in puro stile anni Settanta. A dire la verità, tutto ciò ha poco a vedere anche con il jazz rock più trucido e metallaro. Ma, si ...