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Vossa Jazz Festival at 52, with New Blood

by Josef Woodard
April 28, 2025

https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/2010/9509f2e2a3547fddb4d7263cf3eb6ff5.jpg Each year around Easter, the lovely and smallish lakeside city of Voss, Norway springs to musical life for a weekend. Voss is a go-to destination for skiers flocking to the snowy slopes high above the town, and host to an extreme sports festival come summer. But the legendary Vossa Jazz festival, which staged ...

Afterdog

By Norvald Dahl

Label: Blåmann Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Pandemic; Bouncing with Brad; Fractions; Nightrider; Tripuri; Dionysis; Russell; Prelude.

Pandemic Solution: Afterdog

by Troy Dostert
July 21, 2024

One hopes there will soon come a time in which the memories of the Covid crisis will fade conclusively, but until then its legacy seems likely to linger. As further evidence we have the ensemble Pandemic Solution, a trio originally assembled by pianist Norvald Dahl during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020. Although one ...

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.

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family

by Mark Corroto
September 30, 2023

Why can't all music be supersonic? That does not mean supersonic as in a speed exceeding that of sound, but sound that is sonically superlative. Drummer, composer, and bandleader Gard Nilssen's music is seemingly always sonically superb. His 17-piece Supersonic Orchestra was captured in 2022 at the Mondriaan Jazz Festival in Den Haag, Netherlands, for Family, ...

Arild Andersen: Affirmation

by Mario Calvitti
May 8, 2023

Il contrabbassista norvegese Arild Andersen è uno dei protagonisti di quella generazione di musicisti (insieme a Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, Bobo Stenson, Edward Vesala) che grazie all'etichetta ECM, nel cui catalogo è presente con regolarità fin dal lontano 1971, ha contribuito all'affermazione del jazz scandinavo fino ad allora praticamente sconosciuto. Per il suo più ...

Short Story

January 31, 2023

Album: Affirmation
By Arild Andersen
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:28

Affirmation

By Arild Andersen

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Affirmation Part I: One; Two; Three; Four; Affirmation Part II: Five; Six; Seven; Short Story.