The Trio : 6 star Review from Tønsberg ( Norwegian Only)
A unik concert . A rare musical experience. 6/6 Stars
Read MoreSam Rivers
Here is a Japanese site where some musician tell their story and admiration for Sam Rivers. I played with him at Rivbea studio in New York a lot and my story is included here. The photo is fro Molde International Jazzfestival...
Read MoreJapan site
For my friends in Japan Here is a site that might be interesting. I do not know what it says , but since I have been a good boy last year it can´t be too bad. Japan Site DrillSpin
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreMusic 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...
Read MoreTour in India
India The trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia with Mak McKellen as sound producer went to India for 14 days end of November. We played school concerts in Chennai and Delhi and ended the tour with a concert on Dec 9 at the festival Jazz Utsav in Delhi. It left a very strong impression on us to see how poor people live in earth cottages and with the garbage all over the place and then the very rich palaces for some people… We had a fantastic time however and was very well taken care of by Spic Macay who is an volunteer foundation for Arts and Education. The tour was payed by the...
Read MoreArendal Nov 10, 2011
A great review from a Concert in Arendal Nov 10 2011 . In Norwegian only . See some photos in Photo...
Read MoreNorways 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...
Read MoreLugano Nov 9 2011
We played a Quintet concert at the Radio Concert hall in Lugano Arild Andersen Quintet Tommy Smith Sax , Paolo Fresu Trumpet, Marcin Wasilewski piano , Patrice Heral Drums It is a great quintet and I will work it as a pool of musicians that I like to play with. All these guys are so busy it will be impossible to have the same lineup all times. In Lugano Paolo Fresu played trumpet. Kongsberg last summer it was Markus Stockhausen This way the quintet will have some fresh inputs every time. More photos in Photo...
Read MoreArgentina
Last week the trio did 3 concerts in Argentina. Buenos Aires ,Cordoba and Rosario . All three jazz festivals . Fantastic audiences . There are a few photos in the Photo Gallery from this tour.
Read MoreCheck my Videos
I just added a video from Paris 1972 -73 that someone posted on youtube . Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Edward Vesala, »Triptykon». Check out my videos here.
Read MoreKongsberg 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...
Read MoreWelcome to my new website
Hello. This summer has already been kind of busy playing in June at the Rochester Jazz Festival in New York State and a club gig in NYC. See some reviews here. Last week I was in Sardinia Playing a duo concert with Paolo Fresu. He is celebrating his 50. birthday by playing 50 concerts in 50 days with 50 different projects at 50 different places in Sardinia… Here’s an iPhone video recording of one song: It was recorded professionally but we will have to wait for that…I play on a borrowed bass and the sound is not up to what I want, but nice as a document. One hardly get...
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