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Ingi Bjarni Skúlason: Farfuglar

by Chris May
January 4, 2024

Appropriately enough for an album on NXN, a subsidiary of classical label Naxos, which only relatively recently diversified into jazz, the Icelandic pianist Ingi Bjarni Skúlason's Farfuglar spans both traditions. Is it classical? Is it jazz? Both? Neither? Check the YouTube below and decide for yourself. Whatever it may be, Skúlason's music is ...

Farfuglar

By Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Label: NXN Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Þýðing, Bjögun á dögun, Það sem er, When Holiday Really Begins, Farfuglar, Knowing Without Knowing, Að fljúga, Loftin blá, Mamma engill.

Lyder Øvreås Røed: The Moon Doesn't Drink

by Chris May
November 20, 2019

A promising own-name debut from the Norwegian trumpeter, Lyder Øvreås Røed's The Moon Doesn't Drink has both feet planted in analogue-era jazz yet sounds wholly modern. Røed's melodic, intimate style and burnished tone may be reminiscent of pre-electric Miles Davis, but if this album comes across, at times, a bit like Davis' Kind Of Blue (CBS, ...