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Arnold Ludvig Quintet: Live at Maggies ’18
by Joshua Weiner
Should anyone doubt that jazz is alive and well in all corners of the globe, Live at Maggies '18, an enjoyable live album by the quintet led by fretless electric bassist Arnold Ludvig will prove the point. Ludvig hails from the Faroe Islands archipelago, an autonomous territory of Denmark located between Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. Born in 1968, he began playing bass at the age of 12 and composing at the age of 23. After studying jazz in Reykjavik and ...
Continue ReadingSigurdur Flosason: Green Moss Black Sand
by Chris Mosey
Icelandic alto saxophonist Sigadur Flosason joins forces with Swedish pianist Lars Jansson and his trio in an attempt to describe in music the desolate natural beauty of his homeland. He says: “The desert-like wasteland holds a singular kind of beauty. Perhaps not pretty in the usual sense of the word, it is beautiful in its stark and rough contrasts. Beauty lies in small things: in the slow-growing moss with its endless hues of color, in the black ...
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