Results for "Nils Petter Molvaer"

Nils Petter Molvaer

Born: September 18, 1960

Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles—jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music—and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity.

Born in 1960 on the little island Sula (Norway), NPM was introduced to jazz from an early age by his musician father. After playing in school bands and local clubs he left Sula in 1979 to study music at the conservatory of Trondheim, where he developed his unique style and started to gain a reputation as one of Norway's emerging new talents.

His interest in both acoustic and electric music shows the ease with which he handles the conventions of pop, rock and funk, alongside those of modern jazz

Homewards

By Batuhan Aydın

Label: Ahenk Müzik
Released: 2026
Track listing: Payton Geldi Meyhaneye Dayandı; Gelin Ayşe; Köprüden Geçti Gelin; Havada Bulut Yok; Küsüp Gitti; Mendilimin Yeşili; Karadır Kaşların; Feridem

Reclusive Mountain

By Terje Evensen

Label: Records Abstract Goat
Released: 2026
Track listing: Reclusive Mountain Leap Year Moody Zoo Red Dot Glimpse of Closeness

Be Quiet

By Nils Petter Molvaer

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bangkok; Rome; Düsseldorf; London-Finsbury Park; Copenhagen; London-Hackney; Amsterdam; Berlin-orbit 4; München.

Quiet Fire

By Dave Stapleton

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Quiet Fire; What Next; Portrait Mode; Recall; Music for Evolution; Echo State; Character Box; When It Rains; Resolve; Off Grid; Wave Theory.

Light Of Day

By Richard Spaven

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Out of the Quiet; Distant Signal; Finders; Let Me Say it For You; Light of Day; Fine Line; Bunny Bread; Tilt; Magnolia.

Gelin Ayşe

November 21, 2026

Album: Homewards
By Batuhan Aydın
Label: Ahenk Müzik
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:42

Confusion Project, SongAh Chae Trio, Bignami Veltri Jazz Ensemble & More

by Marek J. Śmietański
September 30, 2026

The 130th episode surveys July 2026 releases and two summer catch-ups--as usual--arranged into six sets. The programme opens with personal tributes and hard bop rooted in mentorship, moves through a Polish bloc spanning contemporary folk-inflected jazz, archived jazz-rock and international improvisation, then pushes into veteran free jazz and cosmic funk. Furthermore, there is a nu-jazz set ...

Punkt Festival 2026

by Nenad Georgievski
September 23, 2026

Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026   Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where ...

Petr Studený: Listening as a Creative Act

by Nenad Georgievski
August 22, 2026

For Petr Studený, music has never been a passive background hum. Since 1979, he has operated under the self-assigned title of “active listener"--a designation that treats the intake of sound as a foundational creative act. Based in Prague, a city whose “magical" atmosphere he credits as a silent collaborator, Studený has spent decades navigating the intersections of ...