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Daniel Herskedal

Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021

by Geno Thackara
December 31, 2021

Insert the usual cliches here as you see fit: strange times, “new normal," all that stuff. Still, even while some of us give up on terms like “normal" and get used to the idea that there may never be a post-Covid world, great music and art never stops. Amidst another bumper crop of more things than ...

Harbour

By Daniel Herskedal

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Mariner's Cross; Ice-Free; The Lighthouse on the Horizon; Hunters Point Drydocks; Arriving at Ellis Island; Dancing Dhow Deckhands; Like a Ship in the Harbour; The White Lion Docks in Point Comfort; Port of Call; The Beaches of Lesbos.

Pushing the 'Jazz Envelope' a little further

by Bob Osborne
July 8, 2021

This show includes a selection of new releases which, whilst being part of the jazz family, bring in other musical elements. Ayumi Ishito brings distortion, unexpected percussive rhythms, and competing melodies into play for her debut album. Daniel Herskedal offers ambient reflections in a Scandanavian context. Andrew Van Tassel draws inspiration from a broad palette of ...

Tenacity

By Django Bates

Label: Lost Marble
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cordial; Ah Leu Cha; Donna Lee; Laura; Confirmation; We Are Not Lost, We Are Simply Finding Out Way; The Study of Touch; My Little Suede Shoes; Star Eyes; Tenacity.

Call For Winter

By Daniel Herskedal

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Våkenatt; Call For Winter; Time of Water; The Hunting Golden Eagle; Lynx Tracks; Glacier Hiking; Ice Crystals; The Cliff Nest; Arctic Fox Tracks; Permafrost; The Vernal Equinox; By The Fire.

Django Bates: Tenacity

by John Kelman
October 9, 2020

It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the All About Jazz article Django Bates: From Zero to Sixty in Five Days, Bates, bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun, along ...

Django Bates: 60+40—Charlie Parker: 100

by Vic Albani
September 7, 2020

Nel nefasto 2020 molte celebrazioni, anniversari e festival a tema hanno dovuto arrendersi all'emergenza Covid-19 anche se, in calendario, ne sono rimasti alcuni davvero irrinunciabili. Uno di questi è il centenario della nascita del signor Charlie Parker, nato a Kansas City il 29 agosto 1920 e scomparso poi a New York nella primavera del 1955. Ad ...

Daniel Herskedal: Call For Winter

by Geno Thackara
July 1, 2020

Everyone has to go home sometime. Daniel Herskedal and his tuba have covered a good many miles both figurative and literal over the course of seven albums, particularly with the travel-themed triptych of Slow Eastbound Train (2015), The Roc (2017) and Voyage (2019) that preceded this recording. Where each of those had its own small cast ...

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal: Lååje – Dawn

by Ian Patterson
June 12, 2020

For her Norwegian Grammy-winning album Mojhtestasse (Vuelie, 2018), South Saami singer Marja Mortensson recruited tuba player Daniel Herskedal and drummer/percussionist Jakop Janssønn on a sublime offering of nature-inspired folk songs. On Lååje—Dawn , Mortensson and Herskedal reunite for their first duo outing, once again finding their muse in Norway's nature. But the seasonal invocations in Mortensson's ...