Jazz Articles about Hilde Hefte

Hilde Hefte: On The Corner

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 7, 2006

In the last decade Norway has become a flourishing hotbed for many young musicians who seem to enjoy blurring the so-called lines between jazz and other neighboring genres. But Norway has also a very solid mainstream jazz community that the recent international exposure of the local scene seems to have missed. Singer Hilde Hefte, from the southern city of Kristiansand, has just released her fourth disc on her own Ponca Jazz label, to coincide with her fiftieth birthday. On The ...