Jazz Articles about Klangkameratane

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Album Review

Though he has long admired the small combo recordings of legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone never intended to record a tribute to the revered King of Swing. As a former student of modern composition at the New England Conservatory with a strong presence in Chicago's fertile free-improvisation scene, Falzone assumed his youthful gigs playing retro-swing dances were long behind him. An invitation to celebrate the Benny Goodman centennial at the 2009 Chicago Jazz Festival led him to ...

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Klang: Other Doors

Read "Other Doors" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 19, 2011

With Other Doors, Klang leader and clarinetist James Falzone has documented a body of music he worked on, after being invited to celebrate what would have been Benny Goodman's 100th birthday, at the Chicago Jazz Festival back in 2009. As he's a highly creative individual in his own right, he hasn't gone for any sterile Swing Era reconstruction, instead fashioning a program which makes for rewarding listening even while it doesn't lose sight of its original stimulus. ...

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Klangkameratane: Klangkameratane

Read "Klangkameratane" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 23, 2008

The reverberation and sound camaraderie of the young Norwegian trio Klangkameratane (or even better in its onomatopoeic pronunciation, the klang comrades) was founded in 2006, “against its members' will," as its MySpace page declares. All three members of the trio are twenty-five years old, and studied jazz together in Bergen. Guitarist Even Helte Hermansen is a former student of experimental guitarist Ivar Grydeland and is a member of Shining, while drummers Øyvind Hegg-Lunde and Øyvind Skarbø have both studied with ...