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Arne Torvik
Pianist Arne Torvik from Molde has long been an important piece in the music scene in northwestern Norway, but he is also a name that makes his presence on the international stage. In the spring of 2021, his band Arne Torvik Trio released their debut album Northwestern Songs on Losen Records, and in 2024 the sequel Songs for Roman. Both releases have received good reviews from international and Norwegian reviewers. The music has also spread well in the digital world via curated jazz charts, giving the trio over 4 million plays of the song "Compromises".
In the spring of 2027, Tuva Halse and Arne Torvik will release their debut album Sleeping Music on Jazzland Recordings
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Arne Torvik: Northwestern Songs
by Friedrich Kunzmann
A vibrant modern jazz hub, Norway is famous for having introduced the likes of Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen and Arild Andersen to the international jazz landscape--all of whom had brought something fundamentally new to the jazz tradition in the '70s. As chance would have it, each of the mentioned heavyweights were also mainly at home with the Munich-based ECM label, whose head and main director Manfred Eicher knew then and continues to know today how to best sonically ...
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