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Jørgen Bjelkerud
Norwegian born Jørgen Bjelkerud, has excelled from the earliest age as trombonist and composer in the jazz and improvised music genre. He has performed extensively throughout Norway, Europe, South Africa and India, with bands such as When I Return, Evidence, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Dafnie, Galumphing Duo, OJKOS and Cosmic Swing Orchestra. Bjelkerud is regarded as one of the new voices on the Norwegian jazz scene performing in a variety of musical styles with a profound technical craftsmanship on his instrument.
Aside from playing jazz music Bjelkerud also emphasizes the importance of borrowing musical knowledge from the world and classical music tradition both in an instrumental technique aspect and the language and theory of for instance Indian Classical music and composers such as Messiaen, Threadgill and Lehman.
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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie EXTENDED: Live at Moldejazz
by Hrayr Attarian
Over the course of a mere five years, Danish saxophonist Amalie Dahl has garnered well-deserved praise as a bandleader, improviser, and composer. A year after releasing the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Står Op Med Solen (Sonic Transmissions, 2024), Dahl expanded her quintet Dafnie to a 12- member combo. They appeared live at the Norwegian Moldejazz Festival. The resulting recording is at once earthy and sophisticated, with a sublime balance of stimulating dissonance and captivating mellifluence. The seven tracks are ...
Continue ReadingWhen I Return: The Weight of Bloom
by Daniel Mège
In an ample, John Coltrane-like gesture, the primordial song takes flight, ultimately culminating in the sublime “Part III: Rise." At this point, the sounds are capable of drawing us back to the beginning of the album. But let us rewind. When I Return is a septet whose singular voices met in the early 2020s in the legendary jazz bachelor programme of the University of Trondheim under the guidance of the revered Erling Aksdal. Driven by shared sensibilities and ...
Continue ReadingEVIDENCE: Evidence
by Daniel Mège
Evidence lives up to its title very well. A lot of music in this fairly short album that makes itself heard with surprising simplicity. EVIDENCE is a quartet: reeds, trombone, cello and drums. An unusual formation, but one that recalls Henry Threadgill's Zooid from 2015 onwards (without the guitar): In For A Penny, In For A Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) and Poof. Sol Léna-Schroll (alto saxophone and clarinet) is Threadgill, Jørgen Bjelkerud (trombone) is Jose Davila, Joel Ring ...
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