Jazz Articles about Nils Petter Molvaer

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Palm Jazz 2021: Nils Petter Molvær & Wacław Zimpel

by Martin Longley
February 21, 2022

The Nils Petter Molvær Quartet Jazovia Cultural Centre Gliwice, Poland October 10, 2021 Gliwice is in the south of Poland, not far from Katowice, or even Kraków. It has its own jazz festival, which usually spreads over several weeks, featuring two concerts each evening, in the dedicated Rynek market square venue Jazovia. This upstairs theatre has a capacity of 200, so intimate conditions prevail. Palm Jazz was founded by the pianist and ...

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Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes

by John Eyles
March 16, 2020

Although they had been collaborating since the early 90s, the first recording on which the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset and American-born, Norway-resident Jan Bang appeared together was Bang's Pop Killer (Virgin, 1998). In the years since, Aarset and Bang have collaborated on many more albums, but this is the first to credit them as a duo. Particular high spots in their collaborations have included Bang's album on David Sylvian's label ...and Poppies from Kandahar (Samishadsound, 2010), Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, ...

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Nils Petter Molvær at the 2018 Torino Jazz Festival

by Antonio Baiano
May 23, 2018

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Sly&Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Claudio Bonomi
December 8, 2016

Sly&Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 13.11.2016 Un Nils Petter Molvær, in grande spolvero per un concerto che ha incantato un teatro stracolmo di appassionati di nu-jazz e di curiosi venuti ad ascoltare il trombettista norvegese a capo di uno sperimentato combo in cui spiccavano, oltre ai fidati Eivind Aarset alla chitarra elettrica e all'elettronica, e Vladislav Delay alle percussioni elettroniche, il duo Sly&Robbie ovvero una sezione ritmica formata ...

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Enjoy Jazz 2016

by John Kelman
November 7, 2016

2016 Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg, Mannheim & Ludwigshafen, Germany October 24-November 1, 2016 Returning to Heidelberg and the Enjoy Jazz Festival after a three-year absence is still more than a bit like returning to a second home. Not just the same hotel (the ever-charming Hollander Hof, along the Neckar River by an old footbridge), which has not only managed to retain most of its staff from 2009-13, but still remembers and assigns the same hotel room ...

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Nils Petter Molvær: Buoyancy

by Karl Ackermann
October 29, 2016

More than thirty years ago, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær had left his mark as an exceptional improviser with his ECM Records debut on Masquarelo's Bande à Part (1985). Those beginnings--in the company of Nordic jazz legends--led Molvær to an ongoing process of nurturing his musical sensibilities across electronic grooves, club beats, jazz, and more genre-defying styles. Molvær's new quartet offers Buoyancy, a natural progression from 2014's Switch (Okeh). Geir Sundstöl on guitars and banjo and Erland Dahlen ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer

by John Kelman
February 23, 2016

Nils Petter Molvær KhmerECM Records 1997 At a time when, with the sheer volume of music vying for attention it's almost an impossibility to release a recording that actually shakes the foundation of what music is and what it can be, there was a time, in 1997-98—and in, perhaps, the most unlikely of places—when four albums changed the course of music...particularly in their native country, to be sure, but also on an international scale. Out ...