Spellbinding Music
Genre-bending & spine-tingling
Since the early 1990s, Norwegian pianist and composer Bugge Wesseltoft has been a fervent innovator, always keen to experiment with a new and contemporary jazz sound - either as a collaborator with Jan Garbarek, Sidsel Endresel or Arild Andersen, as a solo performer, as a leader with his groundbreaking New Conception of Jazz or …
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Born in Israel and primarily influenced by the music of Duke Ellington or Charles Mingus, composer and double bass player Omer Avital moved to New-York in 1992 where he became a regular at Greenwhich Village’s Smalls Jazz Club. Establishing himself as a sought-after sideman or leader, he has performed extensively with the …
“Ensemble” is a great word choice: it conveys the idea of a group of musicians playing in the field of either classical, contemporary or jazz music, while in the Irish context, composer Seán Ó Riada’s band Ceoltóirí Chualann introduced the idea of ensemble playing in traditional Irish music in the early 1960s. The music of …
