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Phronesis: Walking Dark
by Bruce Lindsay
As the pile of talented and exciting piano trios continues to grow ever higher, it takes a very talented and exciting threesome to rise to the top and stay there. Enter Phronesis. Up on the peak with its third album--the award-winning Alive (Edition Records, 2010), Jazz Album Of The Year in both Jazzwise and Mojo magazines--the ...
Phronesis' Pitch Black: London, UK, November 16, 2011
by Matthew Ellis
Phronesis Pitch Black Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, England November 16, 2011Latecomers might have thought the Purcell Room was experiencing technical difficulties. The punctual, however, knew the lights were out for Pitch Black. This project, unveiled at Brecon, featured Phronesis playing in total darkness. Officially the show simulates the experience of ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: London, England, November 16, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Nik Bärtsch's RoninLondon Jazz FestivalKing's PlaceLondon, EnglandNovember 16, 2011 Looking at the listings for day six of the London Jazz Festival, the term “spoilt for choice" sprang to mind. At the Barbican, pianists Stefano Bollani and French veteran Martial Solal led a double bill supported by Marcin Wasilewski's ...
Marius Neset Golden Xplosion: Golden Xplosion
by Ian Patterson
Norwegian tenor saxophonist Marius Neset burst onto the jazz scene with JazzKamikaze while still a teenager, its debut--Mission 1 (Stunt, 2006)--revealing a saxophonist of remarkable maturity and imagination. He shook the life out of simple musical ideas, and in that respect his playing was reminiscent, even then, of the great tenor explorer Sonny Rollins. Traveling at ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: June 23-25, 2011
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-25, 2011 2011 represents something of a gamble--and no shortage of controversy--for the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. After a financial loss in 2010 that wasn't especially large in relative terms, but was nevertheless significant, the ...
Phronesis - USA/Canada Tour: June-July 2011
June 14: Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival June 18: Chris' Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA June 21: Jazz Standard, New York, NY July 1: Montreal Jazz Festival July 2: Ottawa Jazz Festival Described as ..."the most electrifying experience to be had in British jazz" by The Telegraph ...
Green Delay
By Phronesis
Label: Loop Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Abraham's New Gift; Blue Inspiration; Blackout; Green Delay; Rue Cinq Diamants; Love Song; Happy Notes; Five Songs Six Words; Summersault.
Alive
By Phronesis
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Blue Inspiration; French; Eight Hours; Abraham's New Gift; Rue Cing Diamants; Happy Notes; Love Song; Untitled #2.
"Alive" By Phronesis Released in USA and Canada
Phronesis have the ability to excite, inspire and move people in a way that few bands are able to do. Since the release of their second album Green Delay in 2009, Phronesis, led by Danish doublebassist Jasper Høiby, have captured the hearts and minds of British audiences and have developed a fierce reputation as one of ...
Phronesis: Alive
by Chris May
Copenhagen-born, London-based bassist Jasper Høiby has made a lot of noise--in both senses, all of it good--since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music and forming Phronesis in 2005. Høiby is a mainstay of several bands associated with the Loop and F-IRE musicians' collectives, and Alive is his third album with his own Phronesis, following Organic ...
