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Knut Reiersrud

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Solveig Slettahjell: Various Artists: Norwegian Woods - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II

Read "Various Artists: Norwegian Woods - Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic II" reviewed by John Kelman


One night, six Norwegian artists--three of them together in a group for a decade. Such ideas can look great on paper, but turn out less than inspiring in reality. Fortunately, beyond the individual talents involved, there's been enough interconnectivity between singer Solveig Slettahjell, keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, guitarist Knut Reiersrud and the members of In the Country--keyboardist ...

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Jazzfestival Umeå 2013

Read "Jazzfestival Umeå 2013" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Jazzfestival Umeå Umeå, SwedenOctober 23-27, 2013 Umeå, 400 miles/650 km north of Stockholm at the Ume river and near the gulf of Bothnia, is the capital of Västerbotten County. The city is located in the plain coastal strip with an enormous wide horizon on all sides, and everything within reach in the ...

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2013 Ultima Contemporary Music Festival

Read "2013 Ultima Contemporary Music Festival" reviewed by John Kelman


2013 Ultima Contemporary Music Festival Oslo, Norway September 5-14, 2013 Last year's first visit to the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival in Oslo, Norway revealed a rich program that blurred the lines between composition and improvisation in ways few (if any) festivals of its kind do. While the primary reason to attend the ...

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Randi Tytingvåg: Lights Out

Read "Lights Out" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Reading that this EP was partly the product of illness and a miscarriage, this collection of four and a bit songs under such a foreboding title might have been expected to be darker, especially considering Norway's reputation for such expression. Randi Tytingvåg, however, has an innate lightness in her voice and writing. Strange, ...

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Gitar

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Mohan Vina; Eleanor Cross; Hard Time Killing Floor; Magnolia; Gorrlausen; Tamil; The Hook; Waltz; Low Swing; Spanking the Plank; Epilog.

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Knut Reiersrud: Gitar

Read "Gitar" reviewed by John Kelman


So much has been written about the Nordic sound that it's easy to forget, for most Norwegians--like anyone else--that their roots don't lay entirely within the tradition of their own country. In the case of the normally far-from-reticent Knut Reiersrud and the aptly titled Gitar, there are trace elements of traditional British folk music, the blues, ...

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Gitar

Label: Curling Legs
Released: 2009


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