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Norwegian bassist & composer Mats Eilertsen has done his best to stay active during the pandemic. His previous solo album Solitude Central (Hemli, 2021) was drawn from his captivating improvised performance during the 2020 Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival. Hymn For Hope is a quartet album, with Eilertsen's compositions augmented by a few brief collective improvisations. He is joined by saxophonist Tore Brunborg--a member of the band Masqualero, as well as appearing on ECM albums by Tord Gustavsen and Mathias Eick--guitarist ...

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Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Everblue

Read "Everblue" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
March 24, 2016

A due anni di distanza dall'ottimo Glass Song, realizzato in trio, la pianista Yelena Eckemoff, moscovita da oltre vent'anni stabilitasi negli Stati Uniti, allarga la formazione mantenendone l'impianto culturale: ai due monumenti della musica scandinava Arild Andersen e jon Christensen aggiunge infatti il sassofonista Tore Brunborg, per formare un quartetto dalla cifra meditativa e dal lirismo evocatico tipicamente nordici. Le composizioni di questo Everblue sono quasi tutte della pianista (fanno eccezione solo “Prism" e “Man," di Andersen), la ...

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Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Everblue

Read "Everblue" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 27, 2015

In a quick follow-up to her masterful two CD set Lions, Russian-born and now North Carolina-based pianist Yelena Eckemoff offers up Everblue, the most “ECM Records-sounding" set not on that deservedly esteemed label. It is, rather, released on her own L&H Productions. The names of the sidemen on the date explain in part the ECM-like sound: saxophonist Tore Brunborg, bassist Arild Andersen, and drummer Jon Christensen, the Norwegian contingent, are all long time ECM Records artists, as leaders ...

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Mats Eilertsen: SkyDive

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2013

SkyDive è il sesto album da leader per il contrabbassista norvegese Mats Eilertsen ed è un'ottima dimostrazione di come si possa ottenere musica di grande efficacia e modernità attraverso un lavoro intenso sul timbro strumentale e sugli equilibri all'interno di un gruppo. Eilertsen si è fatto conoscere con una registrazione per la ECM -The Source realizzato dal gruppo omonimo nel 2006- e nei gruppi di Tord Gustavsen. Nel 2009 ha inciso un album, dal titolo Radio Yonder, insieme agli stessi ...

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Meadow: Blissful Ignorance

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 12, 2011

Nel catalogo della artist label Edition Records, fondata nel 2008 dal pianista Dave Stapleton, questa proposta rappresenta sicuramente uno dei titoli di maggior interesse, essendo il trio Meadow costituito da tre musicisti affermati e di grande valore come il pianista John Taylor, il batterista Thomas Strønen e il sassofonista Tore Brunborg, che firma la maggior parte delle composizioni del CD e si candida pertanto a leader del trio. L'ambiente ECM è richiamato non solo dai nomi dei musicisti, tutti ampiamente ...

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New York Beat

Sounds of Norway

by Nick Catalano
February 5, 2011

Perhaps because of the staggering snowfalls which have occurred in the northeast since winter started, my mind recently turned to Scandinavia. I was listening to some recordings that I brought back from Denmark on a visit last year, and wondering what those Nordic musicians were up to these days when some new music arrived in the mail from Norway. Sadly, the jazz scene in this part of the world is quite intense, and virtually inaccessible to Americans. ...

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Meadow: Blissful Ignorance

Read "Blissful Ignorance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 24, 2011

It's been out in Norway since late 2009, on the relatively small Hecca Records label, but any recording with a trio this fine deserves to be out in the world in a bigger way, and so Britain's Edition Records--no longer an upstart company, with over 20 releases in the past 30 months--has picked up Blissful Ignorance, repackaged it, and given it broader international distribution. When he was in Ottawa, Canada, in the fall of 2010, British pianist John Taylor spoke ...