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The Thing, London, October 4, 2011

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by John Sharpe

The ThingCafe Oto,London, UKOctober 4, 2011 Back in London for the second time in under a year, The Thing held court in north London to a Cafe Oto rammed with a gratifyingly young crowd. When the Scandinavian trio, comprising the Norwegian rhythm pairing of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and bassist Ingebrigt Håker ...

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Flaten/ Kornstad/ Christensen: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker I: Live At Oslo Jazz Festival

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by Mark Corroto

If folk music is music of “the people," then certainly adding the designation of “jazz" is a redundancy. When a jazz trio such as that of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, saxophonist Håkon Kornstad and drummer Jon Christensen performs traditional Norwegian folk music, it is both reaffirming the oral (or aural) tradition of the music and the ...

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Oslo International Jazz Festival 2011

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by John Kelman

Oslo International Jazz FestivalOslo, NorwayAugust 15-20, 2011 There's always an eager sense of anticipation when returning to Norway, whether it's the barren but beautiful north of Svalbard, the stunning, mountain-surrounded Molde, the picturesque Kongsberg, the fjord-gateway of Bergen or the rugged beauty surrounding Kristiansand. But going back to Norway for the ...

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Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-6: June 26-28, 2011

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by John Kelman

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 T D Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-July 3, 2011 Well, the numbers are in, and the opening weekend of the 2011 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival has broken all previous records, despite a day of heavy rain severely impacting attendance for ...

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Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: June 23-25, 2011

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by John Kelman

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-25, 2011 2011 represents something of a gamble--and no shortage of controversy--for the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. After a financial loss in 2010 that wasn't especially large in relative terms, but was nevertheless significant, the ...

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Article: Year in Review

Eyal Hareuveni's Best Releases of 2010 and More

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by Eyal Hareuveni

Best new releases (in no particular order): Eple Trio, In The Clearing/In The Cavern (NORCD)Harris Eisenstadt, Woodblock Prints (No Business)Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy, <em>Attikos</em> (Maya)<br /><br />{{Agustí Fernández/Barry Guy/Ramón López, Morning Glory (Maya)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and& Kim Myhr, Stems And Cages (MNJ)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Eirik Hegdal ...

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dOeK Festival #9: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 4, 2010

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by John Kelman

dOeK Festival #9BimhuisAmsterdam, The NetherlandsDecember 4, 2010 While the majority of the 200 international delegates who attended Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2010, in Amsterdam, struggled with flight delays due to an early and tremendously severe arrival of winter and, for some, the impact of an air traffic controller strike in ...

Article: Album Review

Atomic: Theatre Tilters

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono ormai un punto fermo della scena avant-jazz scandinava, gli Atomic, quintetto che poggia solidissimo sulla pulsazione impro-punk della ritmica dei The Thing, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten al basso e Paal Nilssen-Love alla batteria. Con loro Havard Wiik al piano e una front-line di rara flessibilità, con Magnus Broo alla tromba e Fredrik Ljungkvist alle ance, musicisti ...

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The Vandermark 5 Special Edition: The Horse Jumps And The Ship Is Gone

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by Mark Corroto

With the 16th official release by The Vandermark 5, composer/director/leader Ken Vandermark invites two guest musicians to share the stage. Norwegian pianist Håvard Wiik and Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo are, however, no strangers to projects by the reedman and company. That familiarity yields this solid June, 2009 live date at Chicago's Green Mill.Broo, an ...

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Vandermark 5 Special Edition: The Horse Jumps And The Ship Is Gone

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by John Sharpe

In their early days, the Vandermark 5 gave founder and reed man Ken Vandermark, the opportunity to workshop and road test fresh ideas. His writing skills have now been honed to such an extent that he is one of the most consistently inventive small group composers around, and the V5 has become one of the great ...


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