Results for "Norway"

All Over the Map with Losen Records

by Geno Thackara
November 2, 2018

Here's a quick trivia tidbit for the day: Losen is the Norwegian word for 'pilot.' See, you never know what you're going to learn clicking around the web. This Oslo-based label is so named for its forward-thinking dedication to exploration, and the stream of offerings only seems to get more wide-ranging and inventive every year.

Northern Expo 2018

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2018

Northern Expo Various Venues Svalbard, Norway October 4-6, 2018 There are music showcases and there is Northern Expo. The idea, if not the logistical operation behind it, was simple enough. Invite a few dozen international music industry movers and shakers to Svalbard, an archipelago half way between Norway and the North ...

Mike McCormick

Born: April 8, 1989

Mike McCormick is an Oslo-based guitarist, laptop performer and composer originally from Yellowknife, Canada. Much of Mike’s creative output is based on autobiographical material and draws from a variety of disciplines, including conceptual and performance art, electroacoustic music, twentieth-century literature, and various notated and improvised music traditions. Besides performing regularly in ad hoc improvising and chamber ensembles, his active projects include the EIDOLON, an improvising algorithmic computer program, the jazz composer’s orchestra OJKOS, the experimental metal band YAWN, and his vivid depictions of human intimacy explored in the Proxemics project. Mike has been fortunate enough to perform in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, India and all across Canada, including performances at the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Molde International Jazz Festival 2018

by Luca Vitali
August 31, 2018

Moldejazz Festival Molde, Norway July 16-21, 2018 The Moldejazz festival is the second oldest in Europe--it was started in 1961, just one year behind Ljubljana, in 1960--and is still the most important one in Norway. It was here that Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek took their first steps in creating ...

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 ...

Moldejazz Festival 2018

by Luca Vitali
August 7, 2018

Molde Jazz Festival Molde, Norvegia 15-19.07.2018 Il festival jazz di Molde è il secondo più antico d'Europa --fondato nel 1961, lo precede di un solo anno il festival di Ljubljana la cui prima edizione risale al 1960 --e ancora oggi il più importante in Norvegia. È qui che Keith Jarrett e Jan ...

Gabriele D'Angela

Born: March 25, 1964

Jazz Guitar & Composition Master in classical guitar at Conservatory of music"N. Piccinni" in Bari. Collaborations : Jimmy Owens, Cameron Brown, Giulio Capiozzo, Aldo Bagnoni, Roberto Bellatalla, Giuseppe Bassi, Antonio Onorato, Marcello Magliocchi, Felice Mezzina, Oddmund Finseth, Vito Di Modugno, Giovanni Rinaldi, Roberto Ottaviano, Michele Carrabba, Massimo Parente, Felice Mezzina, Davide Santorsola, Claudio Colasazza, Maurizio Quintavalle, Nico Marziliano, Maurizio Patarino and Michele Di Monte. JAZZ GUITAR Books DNA- Diatonicism - Neomodalism - Harmony. JAZZ FLASH WORKSHOP OF LINEAR IMPROVISATION VOICING – software COMPUTATIONAL JAZZ GUITAR 2016 CD: 1) " Endless Snow " 2) " Nomadic Colours" release 2018 “We cannot liberate ourselves by imitating a bird

Dag Magnus Narvesen

Born: January 3, 1983

Dag Magnus Narvesen is a drummer, percussionist and composer who is mainly working in the fields of free jazz, improvised and contemporary music. 

Emerging from the diverse and renowned jazz scene of Norway, leading bands like Sasquatch, co-leading Kitchen Orchestra and as a member of Gunhild Seim's Time Jungle, his current musical endeavors feature his highly acclaimed octet DAMANA, Schlippenbach/Narvesen Duo, Dag Magnus Narvesen kvintett, (the new) Schlippenbach Trio, Harri Sjöström's MOVE quintet and Up and Out, Didrik Ingvaldsen Orchestra and Aki Takase's Japanic, to name a few. In working with these and other bands, especially some tied to the Berlin scene, he has acquired a reputation as a highly skilled drummer and a trusted musical collaborator.

Norway in a Nutshell

by Emily Jones
July 15, 2018

Every year around 30 jazz promoters and journalists from Europe and the USA make a pilgrimage to the city of Bergen in the west of Norway to experience Nutshell. Established by the various organisations who export Norwegian music, Nutshell showcases the best Norwegian jazz of the moment amidst the incredible scenery of fjords and mountains that ...

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2018

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 2, 2018

JazzNorway in a Nutshell Bergen, Norway May 23-27, 2018 If anyone should be in doubt, Norwegian jazz is thriving. Through many years, the musicians in Norway have continued to refine what might be called a particularly Norwegian approach to the jazz tradition. It is not about repeating any preconceived ideas ...