Friends and Neighbors

DIGIPACK EDITION

Here is another gem from the Norwegian scene, showing us that music can be energetic and melodic at the same time, as it was proposed by free jazz mavericks like Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and John Carter. The overall sound is the same of the most traditional jazz, and that is intentional and even programmatic, but you won’t find chord progressions in the new “What’s Wrong?”. Jazz can survive to its own stereotypes, and this collective has that notion as a purpose. The music is free, faithful to its historical references, but also disciplined, with no sounds in excess or missing and, above all, with none of the usual tics and tricks keeping the musicians in a comfort zone. Grab it before it vanishes.

PERSONNEL:

ANDRÉ ROLINGHETEN, tenor sax, clarinet
THOMAS JOHANSSON, trumpet
OSCAR GRONBERG, piano
JON RUNE STROM, double bass
TOLLEF OSTVANG, drums

Oslo, Norway, May 19th and 20th, 2015

TRACKS:

01. What's Wrong?
02. Fool Play
03. Friends
04. Duality
05. Jaguar
06. Melting Snow
07. Nokken