Results for "Mette Henriette"

Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2015

by Hrayr Attarian
December 21, 2015

The year 2015 was truly an exciting one for jazz as it saw many superb releases. If I had, however, the proverbial gun to the head to just choose just one it would be Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (ACT, 2015). Nevertheless, the cream of the crop of the year is listed below in five triads. The ...

Mette Henriette

Featuring the music of Mette Henriette Martedatter Rolvag
Duration: 4:39
December 5, 2015

Mette Henriette: Mette Henriette

by Hrayr Attarian
November 15, 2015

Norwegian saxophonist Mette Henriette's (full name Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg) eponymous debut on ECM is a bold artistic statement. A mosaic of shimmering tonal hues, provocative ideas and sublime moods the music is spread out over two CDs. On each one Henriette is in the company of a different ensemble but the thematic unity is maintained ...

Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg: Mette Henriette

by Karl Ackermann
November 8, 2015

In her debut recording with the large Norwegian ensemble Torg on Kost/Elak/Gnäll (Jazzland Recordings, 2015), the playing of saxophonist Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg may well have been lost in the pack. That Bugge Wesseltoft produced album was an unrestrained mashup of genres, styles and techniques in an octet that didn't easily lend itself to individual performance ...