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Tomasz Stanko: Leosia
by Budd Kopman
Recorded in 1996 and released in 1997, Leosia is not only one of the high points of trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's forty-year career, but one of the absolute gems in the ECM catalogue, twenty years removed from his first ECM recording, Balladyna. The album itself is one of those things that just seems perfect from ...
Jan Gunnar Hoff: Fly North!
by Jakob Baekgaard
Norwegian pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff has had the honor of being the first artist on Losen Records to release an album recorded at producer and label owner Odd Gjelsnes' studio Berxeta, in sunny Spain. It was fitting that the name of that album was called Berxeta (Losen Records, 2012), and its sound was influenced by the ...
Between Always And Never
Label: Swedish Society
Released: 2013
Track listing: Aviaja; Haiku; Kärleksvisa; Vägen Är Öde; Sol Och
Måne; Dans Ur Stenars Tystnad; Mellan Alltid Och Aldrig;
Shakespeare Cogitato; Kärleksvisa Tryptyk; Dans Till Solens Lek;
Eviga Tanke; Hemingway Cogitatio; M.
2013 Jazztopad Festival
by John Kelman
Jazztopad FestivalWrocĺaw, Poland November 18-24, 2013 It's always a treat to be invited somewhere new, especially somewhere with a strong jazz scene that remains, for the most part, hidden from the rest of the world. But when the country is Poland and the city Wrocĺaw, there are even greater treats awaiting, as ...
Lena Willemark / Jonas Knutsson / Mats Oberg: Alla Drommars Sang
by Eyal Hareuveni
Alla Drömmars Sång (Song of Dreams) is the debut of three resourceful and versatile Swedish master musicians who bridge the Swedish rich folk music with jazz and world music sensibilities. All three musicians worked with Swedish mufti-instrumentalist and world music pioneer Ale Möller, who wrote the liner notes for this album. Vocalist Lena Willmark led with ...
Jazzfestival Umeå 2013
by Henning Bolte
Jazzfestival Umeå Umeå, Sweden October 23-27, 2013 Umeå, 400 miles/650 km north of Stockholm at the Ume river and near the gulf of Bothnia, is the capital of Västerbotten County. The city is located in the plain coastal strip with an enormous wide horizon on all sides, and everything within reach in ...
Punkt Festival 2013
by John Kelman
Punkt FestivalKick Kristiansand, Norway September 6-8, 2013 Punkt is back. Three simple words with greater significance. While the annual festival, which has made its name on the strength of two additional words--Live Remix--had an eighth edition in 2012 that, on paper, should have been nothing short of spectacular, it was ultimately ...
Losen Records: New Norwegian Sounds
by Jakob Baekgaard
Mention the phrase “the Norwegian sound" and many listeners will get an image in their head. An image of a natural, deep echoing sound influenced by the mountains and hills of the Norwegian landscape. Such an image is, of course, a cliché, but to some critics it has stuck and distorted the rich fertility of the ...
Fondazione Siena Jazz Summer Workshop 2013
by John Kelman
Fondazione Siena Jazz Summer WorkshopSiena, ItalyJuly 24-August 7, 2013While there are those who continue to suggest that the death knell for jazz has been sounded--and loudly--they're clearly not looking at the vast number of young musicians studying the music, both privately and, increasingly, in university programs. It's hard to imagine that only fifty ...
Django Bates: From Zero to Sixty in Five Days
by John Kelman
It's rare enough to get to catch the premiere of a brand new work in a location as removed as Luleå, Sweden—just 100 kilometers south of the Arctic circle and in late May already experiencing 22-hour days and temperatures between 20 and 25 Celsius. But to get to experience the birth of a commission and to ...
