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New cd out Live at Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2010 . Jan Erik Vold reads poems by Wallace Stevens. Bill Frisell guitar , Arild Andersen bass ...
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 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 MoreCelebration
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...
Read MoreYstad 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. Lyssna: Hela Jan Lundgrens konsert med sina...
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...
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