07 Mar

[ March the 10th,2023 release via B. Inspelningar: Elsa Bergman – Playon Crayon ]

By grzech In All That Jazz / No Comments

release date: 10.03.2023 on B. Inspelningar lebel

In 2018 Elsa Bergman encountered graphic scores in some of the many projects on the potent Stockholm creative music community she’s involved in. As the year evolved she interpreted such works as a member of Per-Åke Holmlander’s Carliot—It’s Never Too Late Orchestra, in performance with the Anthony Braxton Tri-Centric Orchestra, and at a special concert with Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra Actions for Free Jazz in Krakow, Poland—where they tackled graphic scores by Krzysztof Penderecki and Bogusław Schaeffer. Indeed, over time

12 Jun

[ Rune Grammofon – 6th of July 2020 release – Hedvig Mollestad – EKHIDNA ]

By grzech In All That Jazz / No Comments

Norwegian release date: 12.06.2020

Worldwide release date: 03.07.2020

via Rune Grammofon

Eknidna, the latest project from renowned Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, takes us further than her usual well recognized trio or her fronting performance with The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Here, doubled to the sextet band, equally spread between female & male powers with interesting instrumental approach challenges listeners, even those who already took regular trio as a grant. But like everything in life that also didn’t happen by an accident, even if certain amount of time have passed from the start. Lets get to the start then.

28 Feb

[ Rune Grammofon – 6th of March release – Fire!Orchestra – Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra by K.Penderecki ]

By grzech In All That Jazz / No Comments

release date: 6th of March 2020 on Rune Grammofon

Original score by Krzysztof Penderecki had only been recorded once and as far as I am aware and it was also the only performance of it , luckily for us who didn’t exist there back in time, but now have a chance to listen to this inspirational performance and learn from that as well as understand better how it affected the further evolution of improvised music which we are familiar with today. The new reading from Mats Gustafsson, who also conducts his Fire! Orchestra.

Susana Santos Silva