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Article: Live Review

Vossa Jazz 2013

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Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...

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Meet John Kelman

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I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobo Stenson Trio: Indicum

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With Cantando (ECM, 2008), Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson finally documented the significant renewal of his quarter-century trio with bassist Anders Jormin. The pair had been playing with Jon Fält since the departure of drummer Jon Christensen in the early 2000s. But if Fält was already touring with Stenson when Goodbye (ECM, 2005) was released, its curious--and ...

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The Land That Is Not

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Land That Is Not; What Is Tomorrow; A Strip of Sea; Triumph of Being; The River Murmurs; Lucky Cat; It's The Dream; The Day Cools; The Rose; Spring In the Mountains; Slowly The Truth Dawns.

Article: Album Review

Sinikka Langeland: The Land That Is Not

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Canterà pure in svedese e norvegese. Avrà pure il physiche du role della cantante folk anni '60 e la tempra ancien regime, ma Sinikka “Norvegian Wood" Langeland di sicuro suggestiona con le sue storie sospese nel tempo. Porta con sé tutto il fascino di suoni arcaici e immacolati che stregano già al primo ascolto. La sua ...

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Article: Album Review

Sinikka Langeland: The Land That Is Not

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Four years after her relentlessly beautiful ECM debut, Sinikka Langeland returns with the equally breathtaking The Land That Is Not. Following Starflowers (2007), the Norwegian singer/kantele player took a detour with Maria's Song (ECM, 2009), an intimate recording of folk songs and compositions by J.S. Bach that expanded upon territory visited on Påsketona (Nordic Sound, 2004). ...

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Starflowers

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Høstnatt på Fjellskogen; Den lillle fløyten; Sølv; Treet som vekser opp-ned; Salstein; Sus i myrull; Støv; Stjernestund; Langt innpå skoga; Det er ei slik natt; Vindtreet; Elghjertet; Har du lyttet til elvene om natta?

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Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers

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In Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM (Granta, 2007), guitarist Steve Tibbetts writes about folk artists: “Sometimes they start a musical movement that perpetuates or re-forms, sometimes they birth a musical dead end. Without much extrapolation, the first part of Tibbett's affirmation applies equally to producer Manfred Eicher, acclaimed for his talent at creating unique genre-crossing ...

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Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers

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Arve Henriksen è un mago della tromba, con un suono immediatamente riconoscibile che evoca antichi strumenti da mille e una notte. Anders Jormin, al contrabbasso, è un grande che ha suonato con i più grandi. Trygve Seim ha riportato in auge il suono robusto e sensuale dei sassofonisti del periodo classico, aggiornandolo con la tecnica dei ...

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Sinikka Langeland: Starflowers

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ECM has always looked for new ways to interpret traditional music from different cultures. As far back as 1973, saxophonist Jan Garbarek's Triptykon used a traditional Norwegian folk song as the starting point for open-ended improvisation. More recently, British traditionalist Robin Williamson has teamed with artists normally associated with free improvisation for The Iron Stone (2007), ...


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