Steve and Tempo of the Down,
There was a special section of that Molvaer interview where they pretty much
said if you like Molvaer you check out these folks, Got that list? Hook me
up. BTW Terje Rypdal ROCKS!!! I just love that sonic abandonment on ECM.
I understand completely what he is referring to when it comes to Johnny
Cash. Give me a holler and Happy Trails!!!
Semper Motociclismo,
Pace'
Can't give up my jazztimes with Miles on the cover (sorry Pace) but for
those interested in the NP Molvaer feature, here are some of the highlights,
in his own words;
"Basically, American jazz has become not very interesting. There are a lot
of good players, but are they forced to play that way? I don't know. But for
me, personally I like Johnny Cash better than I do Wynton Marsalis. He's a
great player but he doesn't move me. Johnny Cash moves me, you know what I
mean?"
"I like the minimalistic grooves of European House, very trancey which you
can easily relate to African music. I work with delays to make the rhythm
float, so to speak. Some of the off-beats in rhythms like 7/8 and 9/16 have
roots in an old tradition of ethnic music which I try to relate to the year
2001."
"I was listening to a lot of different stuff from Brian Eno to Jon Hassell
to Bill Laswell and when it came time to go out on my own I wanted to mix
all these ideas."
"Norway is a very interesting scene. There are so many things happening. It
is not so hooked up to mainstream jazz like our close neighbors Sweden and
Denmark. a lot of great American jazz musicians took up residence in both
Sweden and Denmark and developed a very strong mainstream jazz scene there
but in Norway nobody came because its cold and rocky!
In Norway, it's a different tradition. It started out with Manfred Eicher of
ECM records developing the careers of people like Jan Garbarak, Terje
Rypdal, Jon Chrsistensen, Arlid Andersen. So these people are our starting
point. Musicians who are known to experiment - our base is a different one
to the rest of Europe."
"It's luck. It's being in the right place at the right time. There are so
many factors and I have been fortunate they happened all at once for me."
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There is also an insert on European nu jazz that talks about tried and true
aj list favorites Bugge Wesseltoft and the Jazzland label, St. Germain, and
Erik Truffaz, but also mentions 2 names I haven't heard discussed here;
Tenor saxophonist Julien Lorau has an album called Gambit on Warner France,
mixing the tried and tested with urban tribal rhythms of the future.
Pianist Laurent de Wilde, a well conceived update of hard bop (Horace
Silver's funky metier) that shows how the new rhythms inspire soloists...
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