Jazz Articles about Nils Petter Molvaer

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Remakes

by Chris May
March 13, 2005

Another manifestation of Nils Petter Molvaer's groundbreaking np3 album--which only last autumn made up the bulk of the material for the Streamer live set--Remakes offers six original tracks in eleven new mixes made by mixologists ranging from bandmembers Rune Arnesen and Raymond Pellicier through established console stars like Bill Laswell and emergent ones like Matthew Herbert.

First off, before assessing the music itself, the presentation of one of AAJ's highly coveted Track Title Awards, for “Axis Of Ignorance," ...

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Lars Danielsson: Libera Me

by John Kelman
October 19, 2004

When the bonus track on an album is the most adventurous piece, you know there might be trouble. And that's not to say that bassist Lars Danielsson's latest album, Libera Me , is bad; it isn't. In a year where we've seen other artists mesh jazz improvisation with an orchestra, most notably pianist Steve Kuhn with Promises Kept (ECM) and Charlie Mariano with Not Quite a Ballad (Intuition), it has come to pass that these two disparate concepts--the obvious demand ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Streamer: Live

by John Kelman
September 6, 2004

Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, surely one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian nu jazz scene, continues to mine the depths of ambient texture with Streamer , a live album recorded in Norway and London in '02. Comprised mainly of material from NP3 (EmArcy, '02), with the exception of the title track from Solid Ether (ECM, '00), Molvaer demonstrates that music can be as much about the fabric of sound as it is more lyrical concerns.

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Solid Ether

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 1, 2001

Norwegian trumpet player Nils Petter Molvær captures himself in a swirling electronic nightmare of his own creation on Solid Ether (ECM). A stunning meltdown of classic jazz trumpet styles with modern techno, drum-and-bass and electronic music, Solid Ether continues and expands the stylish deviltry of Khamer, Molvær’s debut as a leader for ECM in 1998. Khamer claimed awards in Norway, Germany, and “Jazz Record of the Year” from “The L.A. Times.” This challenging, inventive follow-up does not disappoint.Molvær ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1998

Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's solo debut is a technospheric curiosity that suitably brings together the melodic grooves of William Orbit and the evocative ambiance of Mark Isham. Molvær, a new name to me, has actually been around for nearly two decades--as a member of the Scandinavian group Masqualero and in addition to working in both jazz and rock, he's played with singer/poet Sidsel Endresen, drummer Elvin Jones, bassist Gary Peacock and band leader George Russell. With grunge ...