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All About Jazz

All About Jazz
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SONIC UNIVERSE

"Transcending the world of jazz with eclectic, avant-garde takes on tradition"

This webcast features a great eclectic mix of music, and includes regular appearances by your favourite Jazzland artists, not only in the recordings you already know, but in unreleased concert recordings as well. You can also find many Jazzland associates and collaborators in their work and projects for other great labels such as Smalltown SuperSound and Rune Grammofon.

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http://somafm.com/sonicuniverse.pls

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Aarset-Kornstad Tour Germany & Switzerland
Two of the most exciting musicians in the Norwegian jazz scene embark on a double bill tour! Håkon Kornstad opens each night with his saxophones and loop machines, presenting the jazz saxophone in a hauntingly new way. Eivind Aarset’s band will follow with music from his latest album, Sonic Codex. Discover the new sounds of the electric jazz guitar in 2008! Finally, Kornstad and Aarset’s band join forces on stage, meshing their unique styles into an untraditional finale.

Eivind Aarset is one of Norway's most in-demand guitar players. He’s a regular member of Nils Petter Molvaer's group, and also appears on the trumpeter's landmark albums Khmerand Solid Ether, which introduced the sound of the Norwegian jazz underground to Europe. Eivind has performed on over 150 albums - with musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Brian Eno, Mike Mainieri, Jon Hassell, Abraham Laboriel, Marilyn Mazur and Jan Garbarek.

In 1998 he released his debut album Electronique Noire, hailed as "One of the best post Miles electric jazz albums" by none other than the The New York Times. (Jazz Times, America's leading jazz magazine, and the UK's Jazzwise also raved.) 2007 saw the release of his latest album, Sonic Codex, to further critical acclaim. "Sonic Codex represents some significant changes for a Norwegian artist who has become the most important guitarist to emerge from Scandinavia since Terje Rypdal in the early 1970s," wrote AllAboutJazz.

Eivind Aarset - guitars, electronics
Wetle Holte - drums, electronics
Tor Egil Kreken/Audun Erlien - bass

After a decade of experimentation, collaboration and recording in groups like Kornstad Trio, Wibutee, Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions of Jazz and Anja Garbarek bands, Håkon Kornstad has finally emerged with his first fully-fledged solo endeavor, Single Engine (Jazzland, 2007).

Kornstad received extensive praise for his range of expressive moods and soundscapes for tenor sax, and for his bold combinations of percussive beats and sweetly melodic sounds. His adventurous explorations on the sax are tempered with a well-honed musicality, communicating and never excluding those listeners seeking to discover new territories of sonic expression. Says Down Beat about his live performance in Moers, 2008:"Another festival fave was young Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad, who took up where Jan Garbarek left off, presenting a ravishing solo set." And AllAboutJazz on his Punkt 2008 solo performance: "Kornstad - now 31 years old - has, in the space of a few short years, emerged as one of the most exciting young saxophonists, not just on the Norwegian scene, but on any scene."

Håkon Kornstad - tenor saxophone, flutonet, flutes, electronics

Wed 3rd:  Künstlerwerkstatt, Pfaffenhofer, Germany
Thur 4th: Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany
Fri 5th: Bunker, Bielefeld, Germany
Sat 6th: Domicil, Dortmund, Germany
Sun 7th: Bb Flat, Bern, Switzerland
 

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