Results for "Jan Bang"

Punkt 2019

by Henning Bolte
September 25, 2019

Sørlandet Art Museum, Kick Scene, Domkirken, Kilden Punkt Kristiansand, Norway September 5-7, 2019 Punkt, with its 15th anniversary, is a quite young member among this year's prominent jubilees. It is still in the thrilling and promising future that has taken its course from 2005 on. Punkt then brought studio-technology to the ...

Michele Rabbia/Gianluca Petrella/Eivind Aarset: Lost River

by Mark Sullivan
July 7, 2019

The ECM catalog includes a broad range of musical genres: the only things they have in common are a forward outlook and excellent musicianship. But there are some that are truly beyond category, and this largely improvised album is one of them. Italian percussionist Michele Rabbia, Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella and Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset came ...

Jazzdor Berlin 2019

by Henning Bolte
June 15, 2019

Kulturbrauerei, Kesselhaus Jazzdor Berlin Berlin June 4-7, 2019 Jazzdor Berlin is one of the few truly, consistently and enduring European minded and spirited jazz festival events around—an initiative taken by Phillip Ochem, the artistic leader of the Strasbourg festival Jazzdor, more than a decade ago. Long breath Unlike other ...

ECM Records Announces Change in Name, Direction

by Geno Thackara
April 1, 2019

European label turns its eye toward the future as EDM. ECM Records will mark its golden anniversary with a defining change in direction, according to an announcement released today. After operating as Edition of Contemporary Music since its small-scale beginning in 1969, the eclectic European label has confirmed plans to adopt the new title ...

Arve Henriksen: The Height of the Reeds

by John Eyles
September 7, 2018

For the year 2017, Hull, a northern port on the east coast of England, was selected as the UK City of Culture. This led to the city commissioning or organising a series of artistic and cultural events throughout the year. One such event was the commissioned work “The Height of the Reeds" which celebrated the long ...

Cristina Zavalloni: Special Moon

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 15, 2018

La coerenza tematica (qui la luna, con tutta evidenza) non sempre è una garanzia verso altre coerenze. Quella stilistica, per esempio, al di là dell'eterogeneità del materiale riunito in questo album (Bellini e “Tintarella di luna" sono--e rimangono--piuttosto lontani, per fare un solo esempio). Il primo trittico di brani, in effetti, rappresenta già un bel caleidoscopio ...

15 Emerging Norwegian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

by Luca Vitali
January 26, 2018

Double your Norwegian jazz pleasure: listen to our companion Norwegian jazz mixtape while reading this article. Far too many people talk about the Norwegian scene as being “interesting because it's so exotic." Those who think so, have in mind its “Nordic Tone," that distinctive mood which evokes snow, mountains and icy fjords. This kind ...

Tigran Hamasyan "Atmosphères" Quartet at Mittelfest

by Luca Vitali
October 12, 2017

PunktFestival 2017

by Luca Vitali
September 12, 2017

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norvegia Varie sedi 31.8-2.9.2017 Come sempre Punkt è un festival fuori dall'ordinario e all'insegna dell'imprevisto e dell'imprevedibile. Una sorta di Industria 4.0 della musica: fuori dal “circolo" dei tour estivi, tipico dei festival jazz, e poco interessato a fotografare il passato e il presente, è invece molto attento ...

Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang: Atmosphères

by Rosarita Crisafi
July 17, 2017

Un suggestivo doppio album per l'etichetta ECM mostra il volto misterioso e affascinante di un quartetto di fuoriclasse. In primis l'enfant prodige Tigran Hamasyan, giovane pianista americano di origine armena di eccezionale talento capace di scavalcare con agilità le barriere del jazz. Assieme a Hamasyan alcune vecchie conoscenze dell'etichetta discografica tedesca, il musicista e produttore discografico ...