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Molde Jazz: Day 1, July 13, 2009

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Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Arve Henriksen Cartography / Bugge Wesseltoft Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 13, 2009 Descending by plane into Molde airport, it's difficult not to be in awe of the geography surrounding ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 1-3 July 1-3, 2009

Read "Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 1-3 July 1-3, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 1-3, 2009 It's the 30th Anniversary for the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) and, based on the stellar line-up, it promises to surpass its 25th Anniversary celebration from ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada

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Disco di apparente continuità, ma di effettivo cambio di direzione rispetto al precedente Er, questo Hamada. A farsi notare da subito è la riduzione di ritmo, elettronica e dj; le sonorità sono assai più vicine alle musiche per film di Re-Vision ma con un filo narrativo più efficace e compiuto che finisce per conferire maggiore solidità ...

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Andy Sheppard: Movements in Colour

Read "Movements in Colour" reviewed by John Kelman


Familiar to ECM fans for his work with Carla Bley including the small group The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (WATT, 2007) and large ensemble Appearing Nightly (WATT, 2008), Andy Sheppard has also proven comfortable in ultra ultra large ensembles like the 200 saxophone strong Saxophone Massive that he led at Mai Jazz 2008 in Stavanger, ...

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Norwegian Jazz 101a: JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2009

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2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 One of the challenges of any organization or festival is to find ways to top past performances, and certainly the breadth of exposure to Norwegian music, culture and geography at JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2008 (JNiaN) would be hard to beat. A junket where approximately 40 people ...

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Meanderthals: Desire Lines

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While music of the dance floor is often mistakenly considered as lacking in substance--great beats, but nothing more--electronica artists and even cross-pollinating jazzers like Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Eivind Aarset are proving that it's possible to make music equally engaging for the mind and body. Certainly Wesseltoft's New Conception of Jazz Box (Jazzland, 2009) ...

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Trumpeter/Composer Jon Hassell Interviewed at AAJ... And Much, Much More!

Trumpeter/Composer Jon Hassell Interviewed at AAJ... And Much, Much More!

He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music--he calls it Fourth World music--has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...

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Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You

Read "Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You" reviewed by John Kelman


He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music—he calls it Fourth World music—has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...

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Sonic Codex

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Sign of Seven (E.Aarset) - 06:26; 2. Quicksilver Dream (E.Aarset) - 06.23; 3. Dröbak saray (E.Aarset) - 06:47; 4. Cameo (E.Aarset) - 05:17; 5. Still Changing (W.Holte/E.Aarset) - 08:11; 6. Black Noise/White Silence (M.Reksjø/W.Holte/E.Aarset) - 03:06; 7. Family Pictures III (Ban/Honoré/E.Aarset) - 03:38; 8. Sleeps with Fishes (E.Aarset) - 06:28; 9. The Return of Black Noise & Murky Lambada (M. Reksjø/W.Holte/E.Aarset) - 11:34.

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Punkt (Day 3) at London Jazz Festival

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A London Jazz Festival 2008Punkt King's Place, London November 22, 2008 Listen to Norway's Sidsel Endresen on record and one assumes all manner of studio trickery: surely her voice is being cut up, reversed, electronically warped? Yet as made clear by the bare stage show that opens tonight's proceedings, ...


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