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Article: Live Review

Nutshell 2015

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Nutshell 2015 Bergen, Norway May 27-30, 2015 For a decade now, Nutshell has been an important engine in promoting Norwegian jazz talent abroad. This year, Nutshell's four-day program presented nine acts of quite diverse stripes to an audience of festival directors, radio programmers, booking agents and journalists from fifteen European countries.

Article: Live Review

Ritmo delle Città 2015

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Orto Botanico Milano 28.05.-03.06.2015 Con l'arrivo della bella stagione, torna il Ritmo delle Città, rassegna che anima l'estate musicale milanese. Quest'anno gli appuntamenti in programma sono sedici, e coprono un'ampia gamma di declinazioni del jazz contemporaneo. Tra questi, i due che hanno catturato maggiormente la nostra attenzione sono quelli ...

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Article: Album Review

Mathias Eick: Midwest

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The northern tier of mid-western America had been a strong draw for Norwegians from the late 1800s into the twentieth-century. Trumpeter and composer, Mathias Eick, in making his own recent journey from Norway to the heartland, discovered a cultural heritage and a familiarity that moved him to set the experience to music. Like Norsemen since the ...

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Article: Live Review

Vossa Jazz 2015

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VOSSA JAZZ Voss March 28 -29, 2015 Vossa Jazz, founded in 1973, an annual three-day event with a great variety of groups and acts, is a highly prestigious jazz festival in Norway. Thanks especially to its commissions and awards, it has an important national and international function. In 1983 the ...

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Article: Album Review

Mathias Eick: Midwest

Read "Midwest" reviewed by Vic Albani


Il viaggio è sempre un valido aiuto alla creatività. Mathias Eick, ormai da molti anni riconosciuto quale uno delle più interessanti menti musicali della new wave jazzistica norvegese, è nato a fine giugno del 1979 in un piccolo borgo rurale ed è forse per questo che, attraversando il celebrato Midwest americano a margine di ...

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Article: Rediscovery

Masqualero: Masqualero

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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, ...

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Article: Book Review

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

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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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Arve Henriksen: Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections

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There are musicians who defy compartmentalization based on ever shifting interests and styles. Fewer are those like trumpeter Arve Henriksen whose organic nature precludes musical definition. Throughout his career as a leader on the Rune Grammofon label, he has created collections that seem bound together only by his presence. The delicate Asian influences of Sakuteiki (2001), ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections

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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) ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII

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When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved ...


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