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Punkt Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
October 3, 2014

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 4-6, 2014 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway at the Skagerrag strait. It has a population of 86,000 (the greater urban area, 155,000) and is the county capital of Vest- Agder.

Article: Interview

Erland Dahlen: Rolling Bombers and Blossom Bells

by Adriana Carcu
September 23, 2014

The drummer, percussionist and composer Erland Dahlen is one of the most proficient musicians of the Nordic jazz community. His collaborations with top ranking musicians, such as Nils Petter Molvaer, Stian Westerhus, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang, as well as his solo projects, have an unmistakable rhythmic signature owing to his singular instrumental voice. ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Erik Honore: Heliographs

by John Kelman
September 3, 2014

If patience is a virtue, then Erik Honoré is, indeed, one virtuous man. Over the past few decades he's built a busy career as a novelist and record producer in his home country of Norway, and has come to increasing international attention as co-Artistic Director of the Punkt Live Remix festival--that globe-trotting festival with a philosophy ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections

by John Kelman
August 25, 2014

Few artists could call an album The Nature of Connections with as much veracity as Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. There's been the myriad of collaborations on his own albums--just a small handful of the contributors to recordings including Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon, 2013), Cartography (ECM, 2008), Strjon (Rune Grammofon, 2007) and Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon, 2004) ...

Article: Live Review

Garana Jazz Festival 2014

by Adriana Carcu
August 1, 2014

Garana Jazz Festival Wolf's Meadow Garana, Romania July 10-13, 2014 One of Europe's most visited festivals, taking place on a meadow over 300 ft. high in the Western Carpathians, just had its 18th anniversary. The lineup, a brand mark of the festival director, Marius Giura, combined again tradition ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2014

by John Kelman
July 8, 2014

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Ambrose Akinmusire By Invitation Tigran By Invitation Tord Gustavsen Quartet / Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, Mehliana June 26-July 6, 2014 There simply isn't a festival in the world like the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Where else in the world can you ...

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JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

by Henning Bolte
June 6, 2014

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

Article: Live Review

Dialoghi: jazz per due 2014

by Luca Casarotti
May 13, 2014

Ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri--Sala Politeama Pavia 18.03-10.04.2014 È stata all'insegna dell'ibridazione tra fiati ed elettronica, questa XVI edizione della rassegna Dialoghi: Jazz per due, che si è tenuta a Pavia dal 18 marzo al 10 aprile scorsi. Consueta la location: l'ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri, ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Arve Henriksen: Chron | Cosmic Creation

by John Kelman
April 8, 2014

Despite the suggested evidence of 2008's Cartography (ECM) and 2013's follow-up, Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon), trumpeter Arve Henriksen's career has not only been about the intrinsic--and deeply personal--lyricism that defined those recordings, as well as the three Rune Grammofon recordings that preceded them--2007's Strjon, 2004's Chiaroscuro and 2001's Sakuteiki, those three recordings collected in the ...

News: Recording

RareNoise To Release Chat Noir in April

April 5, 2014

By organically blending elements of electronica and ambient music with bits of chamber music and jazz, Chat Noir, the innovative trio of pianist Michele Cavallari, bassist Luca Fogagnolo and drummer Guiliano Ferrari has come up with a wholly unique sound on Elec3Cities that may establish a daring new direction for the piano trio. This delicate balance ...