Home » Search Center » Results: Eivind Opsvik

Results for "Eivind Opsvik"

Album

Die Trommel Fatale

Label: New Atlantis Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Clangorous Vistas; Emotional Cleavage; Abscessed Pettifogger; Shamans Never R.S.V.P.; Litany of Turncoats; The Greatest Bile Pt.1; The Greatest Bile Pt.2; Rhizomatic; Quickstep Grotesquerie; Beautiful Flowers.

Article: Album Review

Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Hide Ye Idols

Read "Hide Ye Idols" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
November 19, 2017

Forward-thinking drummer Vinnie Sperrazza has proven to be an exceptionally creative and magnanimous bandleader; Hide Ye Idols expands well beyond the imaginative inroads made on Apocryphal, his impressive 2014 debut for Loyal Label. Conveying a distinctive group sound, the original lineup featured on his first album--alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Brandon Seabrook, and bassist Eivind Opsvik--returns, ...

Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt: Recent Developments

Read "Recent Developments" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 21, 2017

How do you pass the tedium of a long haul flight? Catch up on sleep, or take in those films you meant to watch but never got round to viewing? Few of us spend the time as productively as Canadian drummer Harris Eisenstadt who sketched out the main elements of his Recent Developments suite on the ...

Article: In Pictures

Jazz at the Nash Volume 2: Roots in AZ

by Dave Kaufman
September 14, 2017

This is the second in a series of In Pictures articles on The Nash, a jazz club and educational institution that is at the heart of the Phoenix jazz universe. This article celebrates visiting musicians who have roots in Arizona. Tenor titan Tony Malaby, a native of Tucson, brought his outstanding group Paloma Recio ...

News: Festival

10th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival To Be Held Across Two Sundays In Brooklyn’s Urban Meadow, June 11 & 18 From 1-6 PM

June 12, 2017

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York ...

Article: Album Review

David Binney: The Time Verses

Read "The Time Verses" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
April 1, 2017

Acclaimed as a significant and extremely unique compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today. Binney has created an alternative jazz scene that focuses on playing adventurous and original music, which has been key to his journey as a player. He possesses a distinctive saxophone sound and ...

Article: Album Review

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V

Read "Overseas V" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
March 30, 2017

Like his first four Overseas albums, Eivind Opsvik's Overseas V defies conventional descriptions. The New York resident, of Norwegian roots, has developed a peculiar style that marries experimental avant-garde with the folkloric traditions of the North Country. This had been particularly evident on IV when Brandon Seabrook's mandolin and Jacob Sacks' harpsichord meet up with Tony ...

Article: Album Review

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V

Read "Overseas V" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 30, 2017

Norwegian-born bassist Eivind Opsvik has been a mainstay of the Downtown scene since his relocation to New York over two decades ago. Starting in 2003, he began issuing a series of sequentially numbered instrumental albums under the banner Overseas, which have featured some of Gotham's finest musicians. Bolstered by the improvisational mettle of his longstanding bandmates, ...

Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt: Recent Developments

Read "Recent Developments" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
March 26, 2017

Canadian native and Brooklyn resident Harris Eisenstadt has built a solid reputation as a composer, matching accolades for his eclectic expertise as a drummer. His passion as a student of the art has taken him to West Africa, where he has studied the music of the Wolof people and Cuba, where he has delved deeply into ...

Article: Album Review

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V

Read "Overseas V" reviewed by Nicola Negri

by Nicola Negri
March 13, 2017

Quinto capitolo per il progetto Overseas di Eivind Opsvik, gruppo ad assetto variabile che il bassista, norvegese di nascita ma da anni residente a New York, ha utilizzato a partire dal 2002 per documentare il proprio percorso artistico. Dal 2005 Overseas si è attestato attorno al nucleo formato da Opsvik e Jacob Sacks (piano e tastiere) ...