Arild Andersen

Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Edward Vesala – Triptykon (1973/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 6, 2023 · Comments off

Triptykon is the fourth album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, his third release on the ECM label, and is performed by Garbarek with Arild Andersen and Edward Vesala.

Jazz historian and Jazzwise journalist, Stuart Nicholson, identified Triptykon to be one of Garbarek’s top five best recordings, noting that it presented a ‘radical twist’ in Garbarek’s musical style. This ‘twist’ was also highlighted in an Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick, who awarded the album 4½ stars and stating, “Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek took several intriguing stylistic turns early in his career, none more extreme than that shown on Triptykon… an expressionist trio drawing on both free improvisation and Scandinavian folk tunes, roaring, stumbling, and reeling, evoking an aural equivalent of Edvard Munch. Garbarek’s work on all his reeds is assured and imaginative, even as the context is often dark and bleak… Highly recommended”.

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Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Vangelis Katsoulis – Across Mountains (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Vangelis Katsoulis - Across Mountains (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Markus Stockhausen, Vangelis Katsoulis and Arild Andersen will release their new album ACROSS MOUNTAINS on February 4th, 2022 at o-tone music/Edel Kultur. German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, Greek pianist Vangelis Katsoulis and Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen have known each other since 1996 when they met at a concert in Athens. ACROSS MOUNTAINS was founded in a time when traveling and concerts were impossible.
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Jonas Sjøvaag, Arild Andersen – Ancient Land, New Territory (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Jonas Sjøvaag, Arild Andersen - Ancient Land, New Territory (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

This duo is a meeting between two improvisers and jazz musicians working together to create improvised stretches where Arilds extensive knowledge and experience meets Sjøvaag’s rhythmic musicality. With a percussion setup based on hand drums from the Middle East, tensions between, and auditory images across, genres and cultures are created when the sound of these drums meet Arild’s unique expression that stems from his background in Norwegian folk and jazz music. While some passages are based on composed melodies and other flows freely from a common starting point, the focus is on gentle interaction between two musicians, each with their own strong, personal voice.
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Yelena Eckemoff feat. Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen & Thomas Stronen – Nocturnal Animals (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 19, 2022 · Comments off

Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff adds another link to her chain of thoughtful concept albums with Nocturnal Animals, which her own L&H Production imprint will release on January 24. True to its title, the double album features 14 musical impressions of the creatures that rule the night. The pieces are brought to life by a quartet that places Eckemoff alongside bassist Arild Andersen and drummers Jon Christensen and Thomas Strønen.

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Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith, Paolo Vinaccia – Mira (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Arild Andersen, Tommy Smith, Paolo Vinaccia - Mira (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen, Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Italian expat drummer Paolo Vinaccia made waves around the world with their award-winning debut recording, the much lauded concert album Live at Belleville. Mira, the trio’s studio follow-up, is a programme of soulful ballads and midtempo free-floating sound explorations, pairing Anderson’s muscular bass with Smith’s vaulting tenor in an exceptionally compelling blend. Most of the tunes on Mira are Andersen originals, though his bandmates also contribute material and there is an unexpected interpretation of Burt Bacharach’s Alfie, beautifully played by Smith here.
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Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Tommy Smith – In-House Science (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 5, 2022 · Comments off

Norwegian master bassist Arild Andersen’s trio with big-toned tenorist Tommy Smith and powerhouse drummer Paolo Vinaccia is one of the most viscerally exciting jazz small groups of the present moment.

Its energies are arguably best captured in a live context, and here the three musicians deliver a characteristically smoking performance at the Villa Rothstein in Bad Ischl, Austria, recorded in September 2016. Their earlier concert recording ‘Live At Belleville’, was issued a decade ago to rave reviews and a shower of awards. “Absolutely and unreservedly marvellous” said BBC Music Magazine. “How often do just three musicians produce music as vast and panoramic in its scale and vision?” asked Jazzwise, amazed.

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Arild Andersen – Lifelines (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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After an explosive introduction, Arild Andersen’s Lifelines kicks us like a soccer ball down the field of “Cameron,” where we are intercepted by Steve Dobrogosz’s swirling keys. Into this hammered storm, Andersen drops his bass, keeping us centered in this staggering opener. And staggering this album most certainly is, resting on a fine edge of airtight cohesion and loosened seams. We find more of the same in the loveliness of “Dear Kenny” and in “A Song I Used To Play,” both teetering on a line drawn to Andersen’s careful scale. Even the ballads seem to flirt with a great precipice. Falling from the haloed clouds of “Prelude” and into the depths of the two-part title piece, we find ourselves smack dab in Enrico Rava territory. The album’s highlight comes in the form of “Landloper,” a 50-second bass solo that sparks the inner fire of “Predawn.” In keeping with his penchant for optimistic endings, Andersen gives us “Anew.” Paul Motian is delightfully frenetic here and matched by Dobrogosz’s erratic song, veiled only by the sustain pedal’s illusory veneer.

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Arild Andersen, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Tommy Smith – Celebration (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Arild Andersen, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Tommy Smith - Celebration (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Bassist Arild Andersen shines as the principal soloist in a celebration of music from ECM with specially-commissioned new big-band arrangements of well-known pieces by Dave Holland, Chick Corea, Trygve Seim, Jan Garbarek, and Keith Jarrett. The resourceful Tommy Smith adds powerful tenor solos, arranges Garbarek’s “Molde Canticle”, and directs the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Andersen’s composition “Independency” is a 16-minute highlight, in a sensitive and powerful arrangement by Mike Gibbs. Other contributing arrangers are Makoto Ozone, Christian Jacob, Geoff Keezer and Trygve Seim/Øyvind Bræke: all of them contribute sterling work, and their arrangements are likely to enter modern jazz’s big band repertory book. Recorded live at Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire, “Celebration” is a highly attractive album for a broad listenership, and as a statement about music introduced by ECM will be of special interest to long-time followers of the label.
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