New Year 2012
The new year started with the good news that the CD Rheomusi with Fabiano Araujo trio was voted among the 10 best records of Brazil 2011.
I will be doing some concerts with my new Quintet this year, and I am writing some new material for the Quintet.
The trio with Paolo Vinaccia and Tommy Smith will be busy this year as well,
I am looking forward to a creative year .
Music Year 2011
This year has been a great year for the trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia.
We have played concerts in USA, Argentina ,India , Egypt ,Turkey in addition to Europe.
I started a quintet with Marcin Wasilewski piano, Patrice Heral drums, Tommy Smith saxophone and Markus Stockhausen altenating with Paolo Fresu on trumpet. There are a couple of songs from Kongsberg in the musicplayer.
( Markus on trumpet)
I did two concerts with the project «Celebration» together with SNJO at London jazzfestival and at the Molde Jazz festival.
We also mixed the concert from Glasgow with this project which will be out next year on ECM.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Norways no 1 Record of all times.
This fall there has been a voting where 100 Norwegian musicians from all categories in music have voted for their 10 favourite recordings of all times in Norway . The record «Fairytales » with Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz won.
I produced the record back in 1982 and it was the first digital recording in Norway recorded 2 track in the «Grieg Hall» in Bergen.
Second came the famous popgroup a-ha .
Celebration
Last Saturday we finished mixing my new live cd for ECM » Celebration » .
It is with «Scottish National Jazz Orchestra» directed by Tommy Smith.It will be out spring 2012 .The recording is from a concert in Glasgow last october.We play music from the ECM catalogue.
Crystal Silence , Chick Corea. Molde Canticle, Jan Garbarek. May Dance , Dave Holland. Ulrikas Dans ,Trygve Seim. My Song , Keith Jarrett . Independency IV , Arild Andersen.
Here is a Sample of Jan Garbarek´s Molde Canticle arrangement by Tommy Smith
Photos below are Manfred Eicher ,Jan Erik Kongshaug and Tommy Smith from the mixing.
Photographer Roar Vestad doing his mixing.
New Cd with Jan Erik Vold and Bill Frisell
Last week we mixes a live concert from the Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2010 .This is the Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold reading his transelation of Wallace Stevens poems with music by Bill Frisell and myself.
I will be out next year on the Norwegian label » Hot Club Records»
Bill Frisell, Jan Erik Vold, Arild Andersen photo Holmberg
Ystad Jazzfestival, Sweden
Last Saturday I played a concert at Ystad Theatre in Sweden.
It was a band with Jan Lundgren piano,Peter Asplund trumpet and the fantastic singer from South Korea
Youn Sun Nah. It was a direct broadcast for Swedish radio, but the link was broken due to heavy thunder storms.
So Swedish Radio P2 left a link to the whole concert. If you want to listen here it is.
Kongsberg and Molde Jazz Festival
This summer I had a new quintet at the Kongsberg Jazz Fertival. It was Markus Stockhausen on trumpet ,Tommy Smith saxophone,Marcin Wasilewski piano and Patrice Heral on drums. A really European quintet.
It was great fun and I really hope to do more concerts with this quintet. Some music from this concert will be posted here a little later.
At the Molde Festival I played a concert with Thomasz Stanko Quintet featuring Craig Taiborn piano, Chris Potter sax, and Jim Black drums . So nice to play with Thomasz again and those fantastic musicians .
Later in the week I had my own trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia with Carsten Dahl as guest .The tragedy that hit Norway july 22 had of cause a great impact on the last days of the festival, But they decided to continue the festival with slight changes.
I played a concert on Saturday with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra .It was very a special feeling to play that afternoon, but music usually can say more than any words and it felt right to do the concert.
The band sounded great .
Arild Andersen and Scottish National jazz Orchestra at Molde Jazzfestival
This is a big project which will be released on ECM in a little while . ( A live recording from Glasgow from last october )
I am soloist with the big band with a full rythm section .The music is from the ECM cataloge and include
My Song By Keith Jarrett ,arr Geoffrey Keezer
Arild Andersen with SNJO
