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Stian Westerhus: The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers
by John Kelman
Beyond his reputation as Norway's “hardest working guitarist"--an éclat supported by, amongst many others, ongoing membership in Nils Petter Molvær's trio and assuming the producer's role for the trumpeter's Baboon Moon (Sula, 2011); collaborating with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for Ripples, raptures and disbelief (a Molde Jazz Festival commission screaming for release); and, with Didymoi Dreams ...
All About Jazz Presents at Kongsberg Jazzfestival: Kongsberg, Norway, July 5-6, 2012
by Henning Bolte
Kongsberg Jazz FestivalAll About Jazz Presents: Doing It NorwayKongsberg, NorwayJuly 5-6, 2012 Kongsberg is a small town in Buskerud with about 24,000 inhabitant, situated s 55 miles west of Oslo, the nation's capital. Founded in 1624, after silver was discovered in the hills, the Danish-Norwegian king recruited German miners from the ...
Stian Westerhus: The Existential Dimension of Music
by Adriana Carcu
Guitarist Stian Westerhus holds a singular position in the Nordic musical landscape. His involvement with bands like Puma and Monolithic--as well as his projects together with trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and drummer Erlend Dahlen, and vocalist Sidsel Endresen--are a prolongation of his solo performances, which impress through a tremendous output of musical energy. His guitar voice, ...
Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams
by John Kelman
Sidsel Endresen & Stian WesterhusDidymoi DreamsRune Grammofon2012There was a time when a live performance was a one-time event; something experienced once by an audience, never to be experienced exactly that way ever again. Live recordings were costly affairs, and if the particular performance lined up for recording didn't ...
Countdown to All About Jazz Presents at 2012 Kongsberg Jazz Festival Starts Now!
With just ten more days until All About Jazz's first-ever curation, in collaboration with the Kongsberg Jazz Festival and Music Export Norway, we're going to rerun a series of CD reviews and interviews with artists who will be participating in the seven-show, two-day event, on July 5 and 6. AAJ will also publish a brand new ...
Stian Westerhus: Pitch Black Star Spangled
by John Kelman
With advances in technology allowing musicians to turn real-time solo performances into works of near-orchestral expansiveness, the concept of a solo guitar album has become something much different than when guitarists like Lenny Breau turned the instrument on its side with Five O'Clock Bells (Genes, 1977), deceptively sounding like the work of two guitarists with no ...
Bol / Westerhus / Snah: Numb, number
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian trio Bol has always been a melting pot of untimely sound worlds, poetic texts and fearless, improvising character. Vocalist Tone Åse experiments with live electronics and subtle interpretations of poems, as she did on her recent collaboration with drummer Thomas Strønen, Voxpheria (Gigafon, 2012). Keyboardist Ståle Storløkken evokes progressive rock symphonies with his usage of ...
Zanussi 13: Live
by Mark Corroto
Don't let anyone tell you that size doesn't matter. It does. For a large jazz ensemble, size often dictates sound: its suppleness or lack of. This is not a problem for the malleable Zanussi 13. This live recording from a 2001 performance in Oslo displays an unpretentious big band that deals with size by exploiting its ...
Nils Petter Molvær: Baboon Moon
by AAJ Italy Staff
La fase di transizione iniziata dal trombettista norvegese nel precedente Hamada prosegue con questo nuovo lavoro, realizzato ancora con la formula del trio, ma con nuovi partner. Al posto di Eivind Aarset, che ha accompagnato Molvær per oltre dieci anni, e Audun Kleive, troviamo infatti il chitarrista Stian Westerhus e il batterista Erland Dahlen, altri due ...
Kongsberg Jazz Festival Unveils All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway Program
On February 1, 2012, Norway's Kongsberg Jazz Festival unveiled its first series of shows scheduled for the 2012 edition, running from July 4-7, 2012: a total of fourteen shows—seven of them detailed in this press release. AAJ is pleased to announce the lineup for its All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway festival-within-a-festival, following last fall's ...
