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Afterburn

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2008
Track listing: Daze; JWS; Espresso Crescent; Choro Dancado Heimat; Squealfish; Eel Thye Deeflat; Skyliner; Man In The Black Hat.

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Over the course of his recordings, Torben Waldorff has shown his skills as a composer in addition to his undoubted accomplishments as a guitarist. Waldorff wrote six of the tunes here, in addition to one each from composer/arranger Maria Schneider, drummer Jon Wikan and saxophonist Joel Miller. Waldorff and tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin work ...

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Torben Waldorff: Afterburn

Read "Afterburn" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 13, 2008

For his sophomore effort, Danish guitarist/composer Torben Waldorff unleashes a strong album which gives his listeners more of the same and then some. Waldorff, who is now based out of Malmo, Sweden, had previously enjoyed a well-received album of a live performance, Brilliance (ArtistShare, 2007). On this studio-made album, Waldorff stays with the same formula but ...

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Torben Waldorff: Afterburn

Read "Afterburn" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 17, 2008

Danish guitarist Torben Waldorff follows up his Artist Share debut, Brilliance: Live at the 55 Bar (2006) with Afterburn, a studio session featuring the same core group of New Yorkers featured on his previous release. Based in Denmark and Sweden, but educated in the States, Waldorff is a shining example of today's vibrant international jazz scene.

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Torben Waldorff: Afterburn

Read "Afterburn" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 2, 2008

Danish guitarist/composer Torben Waldorff's fourth release, Afterburn, manages to unite European sensibilities with American post-bop vibes. Throughout this impressive recording Waldorff--now based in Malmo, Sweden--delivers sophisticated harmonies and an elaborate compositional architecture with a distinctive guitar sound owing more to Metheny, circa his ECM days of more than twenty years ago, than to Scofield. But Waldorff ...

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Torben Waldorff: Afterburn

Read "Afterburn" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 27, 2008

Guitarist Torben Waldorff really knows how to put a band together. The first impression on hearing his previous effort, Brilliance (ArtistShare, 2007), was that his group had a great collective sound. There was a lot of fine soloing, to be sure--from saxophonist Donny McCaslin and Waldorff--but it was the group atmosphere, simmering and always a bit ...

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Torben Waldorff: Afterburn

Read "Afterburn" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 23, 2008

Jazz guitarists are oft-times forgotten in this post-Metheny/post-Scofield era. But there are many rising stars such as Lage Lund , Miles Okazaki and Mike Moreno who are poised to carry the flame even farther. Torben Waldorff is another torch-bearer whose Afterburn pinpoints his growing abilities. This is his second ArtistShare release, following 2006's ...