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Torben Snekkestad / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: The Swiftest Traveler

Read "The Swiftest Traveler" reviewed by John Sharpe


A trio of exploratory and quick-witted improvisers unite for an exciting and stimulating outing on The Swiftest Traveler. Norwegian reedman Torben Snekkestad and Catalan pianist Agusti Fernandez are comrades of bassist Barry Guy in his The Blue Shroud Band and also the 2020 edition of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. The three familiars forge an alchemical transformation of disparate sounds into music, abstract in the sense of Miro rather than Pollock, in that its assembly hails from recognizable fragments.

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Torben Snekkestad: Winds Of Mouth

Read "Winds Of Mouth" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The Homo sapien caveman picked up a goat's horn and blew some notes through it to entertain the Neanderthals, who had somehow, not paid the cover charge for the spring solstice show. No worries he thought, they'll soon be extinct, and I've just invented music. What the Neanderthals were fascinated with, was, just how did the caveman make those sounds? Same can be said of musician Torben Snekkestad's recording Winds Of Mouth. Actually, it's just one of three ...

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Torben Snekkestad & Barry Guy: Slip Slide And Collide

Read "Slip Slide And Collide" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Una musica del dettaglio, della sovrapposizione di brevi bagliori e schegge d'ombra. Si incontrano qui i sassofoni del norvegese Torben Snekkestad e il contrabbasso di Barry Guy, dentro tredici cellule di dialogo dichiarate della durata ciascuna di 2 minuti e 16 secondi, in realtà di durata variabile, ma prevalentemente brevi. Un “inganno" apparentemente insignificante, in realtà quasi un invito a una percezione temporale rigorosa. La violinista Maya Homburger parla, nelle note che accompagnano il disco, ...

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The Living Room: Still Distant Still

Read "Still Distant Still" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Still Distant Still è l'album di debutto di un trio paritario formato dal sassofonista Torben Snekkestad, dal pianista Soren Kiaergaard, entrambi danesi, e dal batterista norvegese Thomas Stronen. Il sassofonista è noto sia per le sue performance con orchestre sinfoniche ed ensemble che operano nell'ambito della musica classica che per le sue frequentazioni con la scena impro europea (Barry Guy, Evan Parker su tutti). Il pianista, vincitore del prestigioso Danish Radio Jazz Price nel 2004, predilige collaborazioni al di là ...

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Torben Snekkestad: Conic Folded

Read "Conic Folded" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Patient jazz can be both restrained and determined. But, maybe the best word to describe the jazz of saxophonist/clarinetist Torben Snekkestad is persistent.

The thirty-something Norwegian reeds man is both a classical and jazz composer playing in the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet, London Improvisers Orchestra, Trygve Seim Ensemble, and Among Machines with Thomas Stronen. Conic Folded is his debut featuring the saxophonist in a solo, duo, and trio setting with pianist Jon Balke (who has played with Arild Anderson ...

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Spring: Spring

Read "Spring" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ennesimo tassello del mosaico che racchiude la via europea alla libera improvvisazione, Spring è un piccolo gioiello (42 minuti scarsi), di raffinatezza, di rigore formale, di fervida inventiva, di nordico aplomb. A licenziarlo è ILK Music, etichetta indipendente nata nel 2001 a Copenhagen per dar voce all’effervescente scena creativa che iniziava proprio all’ora ad incendiare (musicalmente parlando) le fredde notti della capitale danese. Batteria sfuggente, quasi incontrollabile e contrabbasso mobilissimo ma denso e vischioso, interagiscono telepaticamente con i due fiati, ...


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