Jazz Articles about Mirage Band

Mirage Ensemble: Memory Happens Now

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 25, 2014

One of the things that is worth noticing about the new generation of jazz musicians in Norway is how they seamlessly combine genres and create their own expression. Of course, blending genres has been a part of jazz music almost since the beginning, but jazz has also become an idiom of its own with certain conventions: solos, swing, standards and not least improvisation. Like much post-modern jazz, Mirage Ensemble challenges these conventions, but the musicians keep in ...