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Elephant9: Arrival Of The New Elders

By CHRIS MAY

Unlike jazz or rock, both of which originated in the US, jazz-rock was born simultaneously in the US and Europe, with a British band the first off the blocks. Soft Machine's eponymous debut was released in 1968. It was followed by drummer Tony Williams' Lifetime's Emergency! (Polydor) in 1969 and trumpeter Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia) ...

Ekhidna

By HEDVIG MOLLESTAD THOMASSEN

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2020
Track listing: No Friends But The Mountains; A Stone’s Throw; Antilone; Slightly Lighter; Ekhidna; One Leaf Left.

Arrival Of The New Elders

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2021
Track listing: Arrival Of The New Elders; Rite Of Accession; Sojourn; Tales Of Secret; Throughout The Worlds; Chasing The Hidden; Chemical Boogie; Solar Songs.

Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival 2020, Part 3

By MARK SULLIVAN

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival Sentralen Oslo, Norway December 8-11, 2020 December 8Beady Belle Beady Belle is a soul/jazz band led by vocalist Beate S. Lech. For this performance she was joined by her husband Marius Reksjø on electric bass, plus keyboardist ...

Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival 2020, Part 1

By MARK SULLIVAN

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival Sentralen Oslo, Norway November 6-17, 2020 With the physical 2020 festival cancelled, the Big Ears Festival has turned its attention to broadcasting filmed and live streamed concerts, under the moniker “Sites & Sounds From Big Ears." ...

Hedvig Mollestad: Ekhidna

By GARETH THOMPSON

In 2003, the English writer John Murray published his Booker Prize-listed novel Jazz Etc. It narrated the life and times of a female guitarist, the improbably named Fanny Golightly, from working class Cumbria. One observer in the story describes Golightly's playing thus: “I suppose jazz is the only name for it. It was as delirious as ...

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019

By ROB GARRATT

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019 Hong Kong City Hall; Hong Kong Park Hong Kong September 22, 25-27 We've long been told that jazz is a world language, but regional dialects are becoming an increasingly louder part of the conversation. Sitting conceptually, if not geographically, on the nexus ...

Chrome Hill: The Explorer

By ALBERTO BAZZURRO

A cinque anni dal precedente Country Of Lost Borders e a dieci dall'opera prima Earthlings, ecco a noi questo che è il terzo album esplicitamente targato Chrome Hill (in precedenza, fra 2003 e 2005, ci sono due lavori come Damp, con diverso sassofonista), quartetto norvegese i cui membri sono curiosamente nati tutti nell'arco di un anno ...

Mathias Eick: Ravensburg

By NERI POLLASTRI

Dopo il viaggio in una memoria immaginaria del precedente Midwest, ritratto di un Canada che gli ricordava la natia Norvegia, Mathias Eick passa a una memoria vissuta, legata all'infanzia e ai legami affettivi, raccolta in un lavoro che doveva chiamarsi Family come la traccia che lo apre e che poi ha preso il nome dalla città ...