A new video with Arild Andersen Trio
Mira By Arild Andersen recorded November 2012 with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia
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From a concert in Gjøvik with Arild Andersen trio ,Tommy Smith Sax ,Paolo Vinaccia drums.
Read MoreArild Andersen Quintet at Oslo Jazzfestival 2012
Tommy Smith Sax ,Markus Stockhausen Tp , Marcin Wasilewski piano , Arild Andersen bass ,Patrice Heral dr. The Fox. . Lucia Basswave Reparate
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2012 is at it´s end. It has been a good and busy year. In December I recorded a new trio cd with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia. It will be released on ECM in October. We recorded at Rainbow studio in Oslo with Manfred Eicher and Jan Erik Kongshaug. The concert at Oslo Jazz Festival with Arild Andersen Quintet was selected «Concert of the Year» in Norwegian paper Dagbladet. A Great review in DOWN BEAT for the cd » Celebration» . » Conspire to make it one of the best albums of the year.If the recording quality were just a tad brigther – five stars....
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TUESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2012 CD Review: ARILD ANDERSON & THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA/TOMMY SMITH – CELEBRATION ARILD ANDERSON & THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA/TOMMY SMITH – Celebration ECM 2259/279 0947 Martin Kershaw (cl, ss, as); Paul Towndrow (as); Tommy Smith (fl, ts); Konrad Wiszniewski (ts); Bill Fleming (bcl, bs); Ryan Quigley, Cameron Jay, Richard Iles, Tom MacNiven (t, fl-h); Chris Grieve, Phil O’Malley, Michael Owers (tb); Lorna MacDonald (b-tb); Steve Hamilton (p); Calum, Gourlay (b); Alyn Cosker (d) Recorded October 2010 What better way to celebrate the...
Read MoreArild Andersen Quintet Oslo Jazz Festival
GREAT EVENING WITH A GREAT BAND Arild Andersen’s International Quintet debut was with his current crew at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival last summer, when the Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski replaced Danish Carsten Dahl in about the time it takes to pack a bag and get from Warsaw to Kongsberg in the quickest manner. Now he is in the band, along with Andersen’s three partners for many years, the Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, the German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen and the French drummer Patrice Héral.Saturday night the band ended the Oslo Jazz Festival in...
Read MoreYstad Jazzfestival Orkesterjournalen Sweedwn
Ystad Jazz Festival august 2012 Arild Andersen’s group is arguably one of the best European teams right now. Finally, we listen to his singing, warm double bass along with a Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian drummer Paolo Vinaccia.Ilama, ilama by Tommy Smith, free after a folk song from Yemen, starts and just give the concert wanting more when Arild played «Rossetti». Arild Andersen lets each note subside completely finished with his calm and charisma. Tommy Smith’s powerful and exciting tenor saxophone has a minimalist expression, and can sound hysterical,...
Read MoreCanal Street Festival , Arendal Norway July 2012
UNFORGETTABLE ARILD ANDERSEN Anyone who has experienced a wide grinning Arild Andersen bass bent over in interaction with the world’s leading jazz musicians never forget it. That describes Arild Andersen and that he experienced Friday in backyard on Canal Street. There was no doubt that this was a game, an exstremely well playing game, who commanded the jazz that came almost by itself. The audience got what they came for one of the best jazz musicians who gave of themselves. The interaction with the other two, Tommy Smith (1967) and Paolo Vinaccia (1954) were as expected in the...
Read MoreCelebration Jazz Times
07/18/12 Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records By Thomas Conrad Celebration is an atypical ECM album. It is a live big-band recording and a “greatest hits” project, and its somewhat distant sonic perspective on the orchestra lacks the intimacy of the “ECM sound.” But the more you listen the more sense it makes. Arild Andersen chose six songs associated with the ECM label, and commissioned six different arrangers to create new charts for the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Tommy Smith. Andersen, on bass, is the featured soloist. The concert was recorded in Stevenson...
Read MoreReviews of » Celebration»
Some great reviews has been published on » Celebration» You find them here
Read MoreCelebration All about Jazz
By JOHN KELMAN, Published: June 20, 2012 Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009—from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year’s Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned writing, Die Blaue Klang (Wolke Verlag, 2010), and the follow-up to 1996’s much coveted and out-of-print Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story (Lars Müller Publishers, 1996)—it is,...
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Jazzwise – June 2012 CELEBRATION ECM 279 0947 | **** Arild Andersen/the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Tommy Smith Bassist Arild Andersen’s critically acclaimed trio with Tommy Smith on saxophone has toured extensively and recorded for ECM – Live at Belleville – and has inevitably led to Andersen’s collaboration with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, created by Smith in 1995. Celebration is a celebration of ECM, and Andersen just happens to be one of its original stars, first appearing in 1970 on the label’s seventh LP, Afric Pepperbird. The album comprises six pieces...
Read MoreCelebration Norwegian Papers VG, Dagbladet, Nettavisen side 2
Stort og flott Av: TOR HAMMERØ PUBLISERT 19.06.12 12:47 Arild Andersen Celebration ECM/Grappa/Musikkoperatørene I forbindelse med ECMs 40 års jubileum i 2009, fikk den skotske mestersaksofonisten Tommy Smith en idé om å arrangere noe av musikken som hadde blitt unnfanga under ECM-paraplyen for storband. Storbandet han hadde i tankene var Scottish National Jazz Orchestra som han hadde stifta i 1995. Solisten han ville ha med seg var superbassist Arild Andersen som har vært forbundet med ECM helt siden starten i 1969. Smith og Andersen har samarbeida lenge i Andersens trio med trommeslager...
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My new cd for ECM is now released . Live recorded in Glasgow October 2010 Scottish National Jazz Orchestra directed by Tommy Smith Buy CD
Read MoreA tribute to the music of ECM
CELEBRATION ARILD ANDERSEN SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA directed by Tommy Smith MAY DANCE 6:21 Dave Holland arranged by Christian Jacob MOLDE CANTICLE [part 1] 8:50 Jan Garbarek arranged by Tommy Smith CRYSTAL SILENCE 10:07 Chick Corea arranged by Makoto Ozone ULRIKAS DANS 11:15 Trygve Seim arranged by Trygve Seim & Øyvind Brække INDEPENDENCY IV 17:00 Arild Andersen arranged by Mike Gibbs MY SONG 7:51 Keith Jarrett arranged by Geoffrey Keezer Recorded 16th October 2010 Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Recorded by Mark McKellen. Mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug 24th...
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The trio Carsten Dahl,Arild Andersen,Jon Christensen opened the festival on Friday March 30 . The audience really loved it and here is a 6 star review ….only in Norwegian, sorry. Trio-topp på Vossa Jazz VOSSA JAZZ Artist: Carsten Dahl/Arild Andersen/Jon Christensen Hvor: Vossasalen, Park Hotel, Voss Tilskuere: 630 FOTO: TERJE MOSNES KONSERT: VOSS (Dagbladet): Innledningsvis holdt festivalsjef Trude Storheim en kort, verdig minnetale om sambygdingen Ivar Kvåle, mannen bak neverlurhymnen som alltid åpner festivalen. Deretter framførte...
Read MoreRecording in Los Angeles
I just got back from Los Angeles where I recorded with Yelena Eckemoff and Peter Erskine at the fabulous The Bridge Studios with engineer Rich Breen.
Read MoreSpace Is The Place
New Cd Carsten Dahl / Arild Andersen / Jon Christensen Space is the Place ALBUM: Førstkommende fredag kveld spiller Carsten Dahl, Arild Andersen og Jon Christensen åpningskonsert på den 39. Vossa Jazz, og mye rart skal skje om ikke noen titler fra det blodferske albumet «Space is the Place» står på settlista. Uansett har festivalpublikum i Vossasalen på Park Hotel atskillig å se fram til av både tettvevd og eventyrlystent samspill. DEN danske pianisten og tidenes internasjonalt mest meritterte norske bass/trommer-par var plateaktuelle med «Short Fairytales» i 2006, og Dahl og Andersen...
Read MoreThe Trio : 6 star Review from Tønsberg ( Norwegian Only)
A unik concert . A rare musical experience. 6/6 Stars
Read MoreBlackbird Bye Bye
Jan Erik Vold Bill Frisell Arild Andersen Jan Erik Vold 3 BLACKBIRD BYE BYE Arild Andersen Bill Frisell POETRY by Wallace Stevens Kongsberg JAZZ Festival 2010 1 Jordnær anekdote / Earthy Anecdote ARILD ANDERSEN: EARTH LOOP 2 Svart dominans, Snømannen, En magnifikos metaforer, Utsøkt nomade / Domination of Black, The Snow Man, Metaphors of a Magnifico, Nomad Exquisite ARILD ANDERSEN: HYPERBOREAN 3 Tretten måter å se svarttrosten på / Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Birdbird RAY HENDERSEN: BYE BYE BLACKBIRD 4 Seks ladede landskap / Six Significant Landscapes ARILD ANDERSEN:...
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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
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