Results for "Ambient Jazz"

Dual Dialect

Dual Dialect merges mutated saxophone lines, disintegrated beats, and abstract pads into a visceral, sonic experience.

Forming in 2025, the Meanjin duo features saxophone/woodwind player Andrew Garton (Ghostwoods, The Francis Wolves, The Scornful Four), alongside producer Andrew Foley (Grids/Units/Planes, YEARNS).

Together, their music combines glitchy, downbeat electronica with the fringes of jazz.

Dual Dialect’s first EP, Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site, evokes a strange narrative. Saxophone melodies unfurl like strange vines and beats crumble like decaying concrete structures.

Varun Das

Field Notes

Field Notes is an Ottawa-based story-telling band. Centred around the core line-up of saxophonist Peter Woods and guitarist Kyle Jordan, Field Notes intentionally seek inspiration from musical and non-musical sources as a method of creating. A largely collaborative project, Field Notes is often expanded in performances and recordings to include a host of other Ottawa musicians and creatives.

Lars Fiil

Born: February 17, 1986

Lars Fiil is a Danish pianist and composer currently residing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He released his first album as a leader in 2011, when the album Lars Fiil Quartet “Reconsideration” came out. It received great reviews and was nominated for a Danish Music Award. Lars Fiil Quartet also won the prestigious competition Young Jazz in 2010.

Since then he has released 7 albums in his own name. The latest, New Ground (2024), blends acoustic soundscapes with ambient electronic textures, creating a sound that simultaneously points forward and backward in time, offering a fresh take on modern Nordic jazz. 

Myles Cochran

Myles Cochran is an American composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Born and raised in Kentucky, Myles then played in and led bands and worked as a producer and engineer in New York City.  He now splits his time between east London and Devon in the UK.  His recent releases have received airplay across Britain, including from luminaries such as Gideon Coe on BBC6 Music and Elizabeth Alker on BBC Radio 3. Aside from praise across the board for his solo work, Myles has also found recent acclaim for his work with Irish singer Bróna McVittie, with whom he worked for several years as co-producer and steel guitarist. 

Fluidian

Born: August 6, 1973

Fluidian (Emil Gherasim, b. 1973) composer, musician, sound artist. His work includes electroacoustic and electronic art music, chamber music, film and theatre music, sound illustrations for contemporary dance and visual performances, minimalist textural music, sound paintings and ambient soundscapes.
His music is very personal and deeply meditative, with huge visual emotions, combining minimalist sound textures with a specific manner of improvisation. Due to his playing techniques like wind-guitar (blowing across the strings) or bowed-guitar (using a violin bow), manipulated with electronics and using his own minimalistic textural concept, his music transforms into a contemplative, floating sound journey.
Initially self-taught, he studied and graduated in music composition, mentored by award-winning composer Ede Terényi, at the Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Fluidian is best known for his solo performances, but has also been collaborate with artists like Arve Henriksen, Tibor Szemző, László Gőz, Ede Terényi, Petre Ionuțescu, Paul Taylor, Sándor Szabó, Roland Heidrich and many more.
In addition, he composes original music for theater plays, dance performances, films and new textural electronic art music for different sound ensembles.

Among his collaborative projects from the last years could be highlighted the "Opaque Lights" album created in collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, "Pendular Emotions" album with Romanian trumpeter Petre Ionuțescu and a soundtrack co-written with Arve Henriksen for Anastasia Isachsen's audio-visual light art installation "Perspective" premiered at Fjord Oslo Light Art Festival, Norway.

Christopher Robin Cox

Born: July 28, 1971

Christopher Robin Cox is a veteran creative improvising trombonist, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, who now lives in Budapest, Hungary.

After nearly 10 years away from playing music full time, earning three academic degrees, including a PhD in Geography,  he decided to return to his horn with a vengeance. He currently leads a trio and a double-bass quartet in Budapest and is beginning to tour around Central Europe as a soloist under the name AlOnE.

He brings a huge, dark tone, and a style that utilizes bluesy, gravely split-tones, plunger, and other prepared techniques. As an improviser, he is equally comfortable playing with lots of space and in more intense improvisation settings. He frequently utilizes effects pedals and loopers to create ambient soundscapes that are more akin to movie soundtracks that free jazz. However, during his time growing up the San Francisco Bay Area, he played with greats like Glenn spearman, Marco Eneidi, Donald Robinson, Garth Powell, and George Cremasci to name a few. He has also performed with George Cartwrite, Chris Bates, Nathan Hanson, and Jason Robinson.

Richard Davies

Born: March 27, 1974

I am a UK saxophonist experimenting with cinematic sounds and marrying jazz, blues, the electronic and ambient styles. I have been playing tenor and soprano sax for over 30 years and have a dozen albums to my name as well as appearing on many other titles across a number of genres. I also dabble in keyboards and electronics to create soundscapes.

Lyft Trio

Jazz, psychedelic rock and dark ambient. Always balancing between consonance and dissonance, clear melodies and spherical noises, simplicity and complexity. The Swiss based Lyft Trio around Mario Castelberg (g) brings their own version of modern jazz in a dynamic and radical way to the stage.

Mario Castelberg (git, comp), Joel Banz (b), Janic Haller (dr)

Genre: Psychedelic Jazz

Christer Fredriksen

Born: April 15, 1972

Christer Fredriksen is an ambient jazz guitarist and composer with a distinctive sound and a unique ability to tell stories through his music. Christer was born 1972 in Kristiansand, Norway and fell in love with the woods and the electric guitar at the age of 13. He studied music at the Agder University, finishing his Masters Degree with a Performing Masters in Rhythmical Music and began his musical career working as a session guitar player. He soon began composing his own music, leading his own jazz-trio with bassist Audun Ramo and drummer Bjørn Stiauren, releasing his first solo album Urban Country (2011) on Losen Records with his old tutor/renowned saxophonist Bendik Hofseth (Steps Ahead) as a featured artist