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Article: Album Review

Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana

Read "Poinciana" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


There's no doubt when the soft tapping of drums announces a beat as light as lovers dancing through a summer night. This is the signature of one of the greatest cover versions of all time. Or rather, this is the watermark of a cover made into a new composition. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's trio now virtually owns ...

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Article: Album Review

Benedicte Maurseth, Åsne Valland Nordli: Over Tones

Read "Over Tones" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Ha le stimmate della musica di tradizione popolare, però con un aplomb decisamente “colto," questo album delle due giovani artiste norvegesi, sia che al centro delle operazioni ci siano temi effettivamente tradizionali (quattro), sia composizioni originali (sette). Voce e Hardanger fiddle--che è poi l'antico violino norvegese, molto simile a quello canonico, però con ...

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Jacob Young: Forever Young

Read "Jacob Young: Forever Young" reviewed by John Kelman


While all groups aim for the kind of collective chemistry that can make, for example, five people speak with a single voice, how they get there can vary significantly. In some cases there's instantaneous chemistry; in other cases, it comes from pre-existing relationships amongst various permutations and combinations of its members; in still other instances it ...

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Morten, J. Olsen: Bass Drum!

Read "Bass Drum!" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Norwegian, Berlin-based percussionist Morten J. Olsen's debut solo album demonstrates how far and advanced his instrumental vocabulary has become. Olsen was part of the high-energy duo MoHa, with guitarist Anders Hana, which later evolved to the powerful quartet Ultralyd, founded by legendary reeds player Frode Gjerstad. After moving to Berlin he became a member of Splitter ...

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Article: Live Review

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

Read "JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014" reviewed by Henning Bolte


JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

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Mai Jazz 2014

Read "Mai Jazz 2014" reviewed by John Kelman


Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

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Article: Album Review

Vilde&Inga: Makrofauna

Read "Makrofauna" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


It is almost unimaginable that an established label, as the acclaimed German label ECM, will embrace the debut recording of young musicians just out of the music academy and release it as it is. But that is what happened with the Norwegian classically trained duo Vilde&Inga-- violinist Vilde Sandve Alnæs, and double bass player Inga Margrete ...

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Article: Album Review

EGG3: The Butcher Diarias

Read "The Butcher Diarias" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The marriage of jazz--in all its incarnations--and metal may sound at first as a sacrilegious act but not for a creative musician in the vibrant Norwegian music scene. Norwegian metal bands defined the black metal sub-genre in the eighties and nineties. Moreover, the young generation of Norwegian jazz-trained musicians ignore the American strictly codified version of ...

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Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Tommy Smith: Mira

Read "Mira" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Registrato al leggendario Rainbow Studio di Oslo nel dicembre 2012 e uscito poco più di un anno dopo (gennaio 2014), questo album ci ripropone una delle formazioni più tipiche, esplicative, paradigmatiche, di un dato suono nordico in jazz, nello specifico veicolato attraverso un organico che nella musica afroamericana, pur con tutte le di lei progressive appendici, ...

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Article: Album Review

1982: A / B

Read "A / B" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The fourth album of the Norwegian improvisational trio 1982-- Hardanger fiddler and violinist Nils Økland, organist Sigbjørn Apeland, and drummer Øyvind Skarbø--feature this original outfit of two different sides, just like in the classic LP format. The A side offers an improvised out-take from the trio 's 2009 Pintura album session (Hubro, ...


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