Results for "Nils Petter Molvær"

Oslo Jazz Festival 2018

by John Sharpe
August 29, 2018

Oslo Jazz Festival Oslo, Norway August 15-17, 2018 Introduction The Norwegian capital Oslo bills itself as a festival city and, with around a thousand concerts each year, claims that it has the most concerts per inhabitant of any city in Europe. Included among those are the 70 plus events which made ...

Nils Petter Molvær at the 2018 Torino Jazz Festival

by Antonio Baiano
May 23, 2018

Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 17, 2018

Trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith is one of the few musicians remaining from the original, founding generation of Chicago's legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. But he has hardly rested since; Smith's Ten Freedom Summers (2012, Cuneiform) was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music; in 2017, Smith swept the Downbeat Critics' ...

From Choro to Chaos

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 8, 2018

Berkeley Choro Ensemble The View from Here Self-Produced 2017 Like its organic natural wonders, the music of Brazil seems to flourish in different forms and styles of beauty. But much of its music has grown from the root of choro: Born in the mid-to late-1800s from the joining ...

Torino Jazz Festival 2018

by Libero Farnè
May 8, 2018

Torino Jazz Festival Varie sedi 23-30.04.2018 La sesta edizione del Torino Jazz Festival ha rappresentato una nuova tappa di una manifestazione importante alla ricerca di una propria identità. Chiusa l'epoca della direzione artistica di Stefano Zenni, quest'anno le redini sono passate nelle mani dei musicisti torinesi Giorgio Li Calzi e Diego ...

Erik Friedlander throws a glass of absinthe, and more new releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 11, 2018

This week Mondo Jazz chats with cellist Erik Friedlander about his latest project inspired by Pablo Picasso's bronze sculpture “Glass of Absinthe." Artemisia--a visually stunning vinyl box set containing musically stunning work--features Uri Caine on piano, Mark Helias on bass and Ches Smith on drums. And, of course, more new releases! Playlist ...

Mathias Eick: Ravensburg

by Karl Ackermann
February 16, 2018

On his previous ECM release, Midwest (2015), trumpeter and composer, Mathias Eick plotted the course of his Norwegian ancestors to the heartland of America. Drawn from his own travels as well, Eick applies personal experiences and family lore once again on Ravensburg, named for the German town of his grandmother. Here the journey is closer to ...

15 Emerging Norwegian Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About

by Luca Vitali
January 26, 2018

Double your Norwegian jazz pleasure: listen to our companion Norwegian jazz mixtape while reading this article. Far too many people talk about the Norwegian scene as being “interesting because it's so exotic." Those who think so, have in mind its “Nordic Tone," that distinctive mood which evokes snow, mountains and icy fjords. This kind ...

ENJOY JAZZ International Festival for Jazz and More 2017

by Henning Bolte
October 31, 2017

ENJOY JAZZ International Festival for Jazz and More Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen October 17-20, 2017 During fall Enjoy Jazz is the common thread running through the urban Rhine-Neckar-region in southwestern Germany. Unlike the fast-forward conveyor belt of musical acts whizzing past usually experienced at many jazz festivals, Enjoy Jazz covers a period of ...

Enzo Favata: direttore artistico del festival Musica Sulle Bocche

by Neri Pollastri
August 31, 2017

Il festival Musica sulle Bocche si svolge a Santa Teresa di Gallura, appunto sulle Bocche di Bonifacio che dividono la Sardegna dalla Corsica, e per svariati motivi si è rapidamente guadagnato una grossa reputazione internazionale. Merito del programma, sempre molto particolare e ricco di proposte poco convenzionali, ma anche dell'ambientazione e delle “invenzioni" mirate a valorizzarla, ...