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Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks
by John Sharpe
Frameworks is the sort of project that would be difficult to envisage anywhere other than the supportive cultural ecosystem of Norway. Calling on diverse funding streams, it brings together the 11-member Scheen Jazzorkester (SJO) and the forward looking quartet Cortex, in a venture masterminded by the latter's trumpeter Thomas Johansson. Established in 2010 as a professional ...
Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu: Maca Conu
by John Sharpe
While Oslo-based Belgian pianist Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu may be a new venture, it has a lot in common with his trio which made a series of acclaimed albums, including A Zoology of the Future (Clean Feed, 2016) and We Must Mustn't We (Clean Feed, 2018). Not least of that is down to the continued tenure ...
Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2024
by John Sharpe
Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival National Drama Theater Vilnius, Lithuania May 23-26, 2024 Intro As every year since 2002, the cosmopolitan Lithuanian capital Vilnius once again hosted the Mama Jazz Festival. While customarily booking acts that might please a wide range of music lovers, the bill this year was one of ...
Friends & Neighbors: Circles
by John Sharpe
Even some 60 years after its birth, the free jazz of the American New Thing remains a fertile source of inspiration in 2024. On its sixth album, Circles, Norwegian quintet Friends & Neighbors continues to find rich avenues to explore in its updated repurposing of the naked expressionism of the 1960's avant-garde. An unchanged line up ...
The Core: Roots
by Mark Corroto
It has been over a decade since a release from the Norwegian jazz band The Core. Founded in 2001, the quartet released half a dozen albums before mostly going their separate ways. Saxophonist Kjetil Møster worked with Gard Nilssen, Mats Gustafsson, and Per Zanussi, pianist Erlend Slettevoll with Hedvig Mollestad and Petter Wettre, bassist Steinar Raknes ...
A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist with a few more among the songs that we have collected through the past six months with a plan to share them, all at once, in an attempt to close out the year under more than a few good notes. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...
Family
By Gard Nilssen
Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Space Dance Experiment; Spending Time With Ludde; Letter to Alfred; Boogie Stop Tøffel;
The Healing Force Of the Trojan Horse; Supersonic; Dolphin Disco; SP68.
Marbles
Label: Odin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sonny River; Ariel’s Song; Whale Waltz; Lagoon Mist; Pyramid Dance; Moon Shade; Twini Bliss; Live Sover.
All the Better For Seeing You
Label: Is It Jazz?
Released: 2023
Track listing: Halvannen Time; Last Cup of Zorro; Hollowed By Thy Fame; Stolen From a Blind Monkey; Raptus
Norvegicus; Takk for Seg.
Frozen Silence
By Maciej Obara
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dry Mountain;
Black Cauldron;
Frozen Silence;
High Stone; Rainbow Leaves;
Twilight; Waves of Glyma; Flying Pixies.
