Jazz Articles about Kolbein Falkeid

Kolbein Falkeid/Ketil Bj: Solskinnsdypet (Sun Shines Deep)

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 21, 2005

Some of the best ECM discs are being conceived, played, and produced outside the prestigious Munich-based label, whose productions are trademarked by creative, well-crafted, and beautifully executed chamber jazz.

Norwegian pianist and composer Ketil Bjørnstad, who has recorded five discs for ECM in the last decade, uses veteran ECM recording musicians; ECM's chief sound engineer, Jan Erik Kongshaug; and ECM's main recording studio, the Rainbow studio of Oslo, to a very satisfying result on this moving tribute to ...