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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Lars Horntveth of Jaga Jazzist

by AAJ Staff
November 3, 2015

About Jaga Jazzist If Jaga has any rules, there's really just one: every album must sound like nothing that preceded it. With Starfire, the group that has confounded categorization from inception has delivered yet another album unlike any they've ever done before. Yet, at the end of the day--despite touchstones ranging from Gil Evans ...

News: Event

Jaga Jazzist's "Starfire" Tour at Electric Brixton on November 5th

November 1, 2015

Soundcrash is very proud to announce the experimental jazz ensemble Jaga Jazzist will be taking to the stage at Electric Brixton on Thursday the 5th of November to showcase their incredible genre blending style of music. Jaga Jazzist combine and incredible array of instruments with an electronic otherworldliness that has always made them a band that’s ...

Article: Album Review

Jaga Jazzist: Starfire

Read "Starfire" reviewed by Alex Franquelli

by Alex Franquelli
June 23, 2015

First things first: let's leave the definition of Jaga Jazzist music for last. Or, better, let's not even consider using labels. Let's not rush to conclusions, let's not fall in the sweet traps of music criticism where one plunges in forced by adjectives, hyperboles, comparisons, clever rhetoric and assorted namedropping. First things first, we said, as ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Mathias Eick: Midwest

by John Kelman
May 18, 2015

Having first emerged on ECM Records, garnering significant attention for his work with fellow Norwegian, guitarist Jacob Young (2004's Evening Falls), and Finish pianist/harpist Iro Haarla (2006's Northbound), it seemed only a matter of time before trumpeter Mathias Eick would get the opportunity to start releasing albums of his own for the label. But if the ...

News: Festival

12 Points Returns With Best Of New European Jazz, Dublin, April 15-18

April 10, 2015

12 Points returns to his spiritual home of Dublin at the Project Arts Centre from April 15-18 for 4 days of exciting young jazz acts from across Europe, with daytime ‘Jazz Futures’ seminar and after-hours jam sessions. Festival Pass €50 / Daily Tickets €15/12 “The freshest, hottest sounds in jazz and contemporary experimental music” —The Irish ...

Article: Rediscovery

Masqualero: Masqualero

by John Kelman
January 8, 2015

MasqualeroMasqualeroOdin1983 Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, there are still those who think that Norwegian musicians can't play “real jazz" (whatever that is), and that what they do play is something consistently (and erroneously) categorized as “Nordic Cool." Submitted for your approval is today's Rediscovery: the self-titled debut from Masqualero, ...

Album

'94 - '14

By Jaga Jazzist

Label: Ninja Tune
Released: 2014
Track listing: LP1 ( A Livingroom Hush): Side A: Animal Chin; Going Down; Press Play; Airborne; Real Racecards Have Doors; Low Battery. Side B: Midget; Made for Radio; Lithuania; Cinematic. LP2 (Reworks Pt. 1): Side C: Bananfluer Overalt ( Clark Remix); Music! Dance! Drama! (Big Black Delta Remix). Side D: Kitty Wu (Machinedrum Remix); Toccata (Teebs Remix). LP3 (Reworks Pt. 2): Side E: Rose Heiress (Miguel Atwood-Ferguson); Oslo Skyline (Moiré Remix). Side F: Toccata (Illum Sphere Remix); Toccata (Invader Ace Remix).

Article: Book Review

Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz europea

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2014

Il Suono Del Nord: La Norvegia protagonista della scena jazz euorpea Luca Vitali 320 pages ISBN:9788886784979 Auditorium Edizioni 2014 Inspite of having a population of only five million inhabitants, Norway, contests author Luca Vitali, produces and consumes more jazz than almost any other country in Europe. The growth ...

Article: Book Review

Jan Granlie: My Favorite Things - Jazz Photos 2004-2014

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 20, 2014

My Favorite Things--Jazz Photos 2004 -2014 Jan Granlie 182 Jazz og Sånn 2014 Norwegian photographer, writer and editor Jan Granilie has an intimate and through knowledge of the history and almost everyone that is involved in the Nordic and European jazz scenes. He edited the Norwegian jazz magazine ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim

by John Kelman
August 5, 2014

Things are looking up for Bergen-based Stein Urheim, a musician who, on the basis of Stein Urheim--his second release on Hubro after the vinyl/download-only Kosmolodi (2012) and third as a leader following his 2009 debut, Three Sets of Music--seems interested in just about anything with strings...and a few without. Beyond his own career, which includes work ...