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Edition Records: A Guide To The First Fifteen Years

by Ian Patterson
April 25, 2023

Edition Records celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2023. The label founded in Cardiff in 2008 by keyboardist Dave Stapleton has come a long way in that time. Initially conceived of as a means to release his own music and that of his friends, Edition Records went from being a cottage industry to a position as one ...

Morten Schantz Trio: Passenger

by Ian Patterson
January 7, 2023

It might be tempting to view Morten Schantz's Passenger as a lockdown album, recorded as it was during those strange times of isolation, but the music can perhaps better be understood as the culmination of personal and musical growth stretching back over more than two decades. Schantz first led a piano trio whilst still ...

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019

by Rob Garratt
October 3, 2019

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019 Hong Kong City Hall; Hong Kong Park Hong Kong September 22, 25-27 We've long been told that jazz is a world language, but regional dialects are becoming an increasingly louder part of the conversation. Sitting conceptually, if not geographically, on the nexus ...

Morten Schantz: Unicorn

by Ian Patterson
November 11, 2014

Danish pianist/composer Morten Schantz is probably best known as one fifth of JazzKamikaze, the globe-trotting band he formed in 2005 with Marius Neset, Kristor Brødsgaard, Daniel Heløy Davidsen and Anton Eger. That may be about to change, as the solo album Unicorn marks a significant wind change in Schantz's trajectory. Inspired writing and scintillating collective playing ...

The Return Of JazzKamikaze

By JazzKamikaze

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2012

Marius Neset: Norwegian Woods

by Ian Patterson
December 17, 2012

Marius Neset has become one of today's most talked-about saxophonists since the release of Golden Xplosion (Edition Records, 2011). The album, which also features pianist/keyboardist Django Bates, bassist Jasper Hoiby and drummer Anton Eger, has received widespread five-star reviews, and countless superlatives have been used to heap praise on the 26-year-old from Bergen. Neset has been ...

Marius Neset Golden Xplosion: Golden Xplosion

by Ian Patterson
July 6, 2011

Norwegian tenor saxophonist Marius Neset burst onto the jazz scene with JazzKamikaze while still a teenager, its debut--Mission 1 (Stunt, 2006)--revealing a saxophonist of remarkable maturity and imagination. He shook the life out of simple musical ideas, and in that respect his playing was reminiscent, even then, of the great tenor explorer Sonny Rollins. Traveling at ...

Supersonic Revolutions

By JazzKamikaze

Label: SevenSeas Music
Released: 2010

Jazz Kamikaze: Supersonic Revolutions

By JazzKamikaze

Label: Hitman Jazz
Released: 2010
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