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Neneh Cherry & The Thing: The Cherry Thing
by Mark Corroto
The Scandinavian power trio of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love named their band The Thing in 2000, after the Don Cherry composition from Where's Brooklyn (Blue Note, 1966). In their subsequent dozen or so albums, they have covered Cherry's music and that of Albert Ayler, Joe McPhee, and Duke Ellington. The Thing has also ventured outside the jazz idiom to perform music by The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeah, PJ Harvey, and Cato Salsa ...
Continue ReadingFlaten/ Kornstad/ Christensen: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker I: Live At Oslo Jazz Festival
by Mark Corroto
If folk music is music of “the people," then certainly adding the designation of “jazz" is a redundancy. When a jazz trio such as that of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, saxophonist Håkon Kornstad and drummer Jon Christensen performs traditional Norwegian folk music, it is both reaffirming the oral (or aural) tradition of the music and the human context (or familia) of sound and improvisation.The music heard on Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker I: Live At Oslo Jazz Festival (My ...
Continue ReadingScorch Trio: Melaza
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista americano di origine finlandese Raoul Bjorkenheim continua imperterrito ad esercitare una efficace opera di destrutturazione del linguaggio della chitarra elettrica con il suo trio denominato Scorch che lo vede affiancato, per questa occasione, dal bassista Ingebrigt Haker Flaten e dal batterista Frank Rosaly (che prende il posto di Paal Nilssen- Love). Gli otto brani sono tutti a firma collettiva del gruppo, testimonianza di una scelta compositiva che pesca sostanzialmente dalla verve improvvisativa che ben sostiene questi tre musicisti ...
Continue ReadingTrinity: Breaking the Mold
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trinity è un quartetto che come Supersilent, Atomic, The Thing riunisce improvvisatori di gran classe che sanno forgiare musica tellurica caratterizzata da indipendenza e originalità. Vero leader di questa formazione è Kietil Moster, ex sassofonista dei Core, che dopo alcuni anni trascorsi in Sudafrica e frequentazioni rock/hardcore con Datarock è tornato, ormai da qualche tempo, al jazz. Registrazione live, colta nel 2006 a Molde, con Morten Qvenild (leader di In The Country e Magical Orchestra con Susanna Wallumrod) alle tastiere, ...
Continue ReadingAtomic: Retrograde
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Every time I have the opportunity to attend a performance by Atomic, I find myself asking, how does a band this dynamic and creative miss the radar on so many different media and industry levels? If the Miles Davis Quintet with Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock could have rocked, they would have been the brilliant and ass-kicking Atomic. If they were from New York, my peers would be drooling at the opportunity to discover the arrival ...
Continue ReadingIngebrigt Haker Flaten: Five Bass Hits
by Andrey Henkin
Townhouse OrchestraBelle VilleClean Feed2008 Evan Parker/Ingebrigt Haker FlatenThe Brewery TapSmalltown Superjazzz2008 TrinityBreaking the MoldClean Feed2009 Ingebrigt Haker FlatenThe Year of the BoarJazzland2008 Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Hakon KornstadElise Hemlandssanger Compunctio2008 Though Europe ...
Continue ReadingAtomic: Retrograde
by John Kelman
Plenty has been written about the intersection--past and present--between members of the Swedish/Norwegian collective Atomic, and Chicago's Ken Vandermark's countless projects. Most telling, perhaps, is this simple fact: were Atomic American-based, there's little doubt it would garner similar accolades from a considerably larger audience unafraid of the kind of fearless experimentation that's been the quintet's signature since convening around the turn of the millennium. Retrograde is the group's fifth release and second three-CD set, following its all-live The Bikini Tapes ...
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