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Molde International Jazz Festival 2013
Molde, Norway
July 15-20, 2013
It may have been his last year as festival director, but Jan Ole Otn?s sure went out on a high, not just because his programming was as impeccable as ever, but because he made it a year with a very specific philosophy. In past years, the festival's artists in residence have included such prestigious names as
Arve Henriksen
trumpetb.1968
Nils Petter Molvaer
trumpetb.1960
Dave Holland
bassb.1946
Jason Moran
pianob.1975
Charles Lloyd
saxophoneb.1938
Taurus Mateen
bass
Nasheet Waits
drumsb.1971
Thelonious Monk
piano1917 - 1982
Jan Bang
live samplingb.1968
Beyond Moran's residence, which also included a closing show at the town's church with his wife, singer Alicia Hall Moran, the festival once again presented a diversity rich program, ranging from young guitar firebrand Hedvig Molestad's hard-rocking instrumental trio to the premiere of drummer
Paal Nilssen-Love
drumsb.1974
Stian Westerhus
guitar
Bill Frisell
guitar, electricb.1951
Terje Rypdal
guitarb.1947
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data-original-title="" title="">Albatrosh duo delivered its first performance of a new suite of music with the renowned 
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
band / ensemble / orchestrab.2000
Ola Kvernberg
violinb.1981
Maria Kannegaard
pianoBeyond the festival itself, a group of 25 delegates, ranging from journalists to club owners and festival presenters, and hailing from countries as nearby as Sweden and Denmark and as far away as Canada, the United States, Japan, Hungary and Germany, were invited to participate in a new initiative, organized by Music Norway, the recently merged organization replacing Music Export Norway with Music Information Center Norway. An extrapolation of Silver City Sounds, which took place for a number of years at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, the Molde Jazz Expo was created out of the desire to make that event—intended to introduce its invitees to Norwegian culture and music, with special trips included to allow folks to see some of the surrounding countryside—less festival-dependent. This year it was in Molde; next year it could easily be held elsewhere.
Running the inaugural; Jazz Expo in Molde for the final year of Otn?s' 13-year run was certainly a great idea, but not just for the festival; surrounded by 222 mountains, Molde is truly one of Norway's most beautiful locales, the town of 24,000 situated on a large fjord about 25 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean...and a short drive from the award-winning Atlantic Road, which was the destination for the group on one of the Expo's three days. That the weather was less than cooperative—raining most of the time, with only the occasional (and temporary) breakthrough of sun—did not ruin the natural beauty, though it was unfortunate that less of the surrounding mountain-scapes were visible; on a clearer day, every time a cloud breaks there's a new mountain to be seen, something that makes the festival not just a great destination for music, but for its natural beauty as well.
A few of the attendees decided to stay for the entire run of the festival, and it was well worth it, inclement weather notwithstanding. Beyond the specific meaning of Jason Moran's six-day residency, there wasn't a single day at Molde Jazz Festival where there wasn't something to command—and demand—attention. With Otn?s heading to Oslo to run the city's Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, the mantle of Molde festival director has been handed over to Anders Eriksson, trumpeter for Ensemble Denada, but also the man responsible for booking the group's tours and acting as road manager, amongst other administrative details. Hiring a professional musician with such skills means that Molde International Jazz Festival remains in good hands, though it will be interesting to see just how Eriksson stamps a festival that's been so strongly defined by Otn?s for the past thirteen years.
July 15: Jason Moran In My Mind / Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Albatrosh
A little disclosure: having seen Jason Moran as early as 1998, when he was part of saxophonist
Greg Osby
saxophoneb.1960
Stefon Harris
vibraphoneb.1973
Paul Motian
drums1931 - 2011
Charles Lloyd
saxophoneb.1938
Moran has been performing his In My Mind show for quite a few years now, dating as far back as 2005. Using Bandwagon as the core, Moran picks up local musicians to flesh out a five-piece horn section, and he couldn't have found a better group than alto saxophonist Frode Nymo and tenor saxophonist Atle Nymo (both of Ensemble Denada and many other projects); trumpeter K?re Nymark; trombonist Kristoffer Kompen (who won an award just a couple years ago at the Oslo Jazz Festival); and tubaist
Daniel Herskedal
tuba
Marius Neset
saxophoneb.1985
With a projection screen behind the group, Moran entered the stage alone, put on a pair of headphones and began to play along with a
Thelonious Monk
piano1917 - 1982
Mateen's solution to increased travel problems with a large double bass was to use the custom-build acoustic bass guitar that a Spanish luthier designed and built for him in the mid-'90s—and which the bassist has used almost exclusively ever since—on recordings as well as in performance. What distinguishes this instrument from typical electric bass guitars with a hollow body is that his instrument sounds uncannily like a double bass; sure, there are differences, but it was remarkable just how closely Mateen's instrument was able to emulate the deep, woody tone of a double bass on an instrument that could easily fit in the overhead compartment of an airplane.
Moran's multimedia performance was a mix of music, spoken word, old recordings, autobiographical information and, at its core, the pianist's clear love of Monk—the man and the musician. "If there was a point after being born that changed my life," his voice spoke over the sound system, "it was hearing Monk." And as Moran moved through the set, taking Monk's music into the 21st century with a kind of freedom that Monk never envisaged, it became obvious just how significant a touchstone the legendary pianist/composer has been for the younger pianist.
A particularly powerful moment occurred when Waits, taking a mid-set solo, punctuated the story of Monk's encounter with police, his snare drum shots matching the sharp cracks of the pianist's hands being beaten. But, as the musicians who had left the stage for this segment (including Moran) returned to the stage, rather than taking their places behind their instruments, they sat on the floor of the stage, watching the video screen as a series of quotes passed by that gave the impression of being at a Monk rehearsal.
As the show neared its end, the phrase "In My Mind" began to repeat, as onstage cameras began to mesh the live performance with the pre-recorded video; just as it seemed the concert was over, however, the group began to play "Crepuscule with Nellie," bringing the full house at Bj?rnsenhuset to its feet, clapping its hands and, as the band left the stage (the horn players still with their instruments, Herskedal switching to euphonium), walking past the front row, a line was formed, following Moran and his group out into the Bj?rnsenhuset lobby, where the music continued for a good 10 minutes before finally coming to an end.
It was a powerful first performance that set the tone for the whole week, as Moran made clear, in the most immediate way possible that for him, there is no dividing line when it comes to music. The tradition at the core of Bandwagon may be thousands of miles away from the Norwegian horn section that augmented it, but on this night, it was clear that this music was a part of everyone's past.
Having last visited Molde in 2010, it was great to see that what was then a hole in the ground with a lot of construction equipment was now the town's beautiful new Plassen, with two performance spaces, a library, administrative offices and more. The larger of the two rooms at Plassen, the Teatret V?rt Konsert, was especially impressive in the way that the rows of seating could be easily (and automatically) pulled back against the rear wall to turn the venue into a standing-room space, with an overhead balcony providing seating for, perhaps, another 25-30 people (seated).
It was also great to see just how far
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data-original-title="" title="">Albatrosh—the duo with pianist Eyolf Dale and tenor saxophonist André Roligheten—has come since first encountering them as part of a JazzNorway in a Nutshell showcase in Rosendahl, when the two young players were still in school and yet to record their first album, Seagull Island (Inner Ear, 2009). While Albatrosh's latest, Yonkers (Rune Grammofon, 2012), was a return to the duo format of its debut, Mystery Orchestra with Grenager and Talfjord (Inner Ear, 2010) provided a hint of what was to come when the duo collaborated with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for its 2013 Molde Jazz Festival performance.Mystery Orchestra cellist Lene Grenager and hornist Holde Sofie Talfjord—one-half of the improvising unit " data-original-title="" title="">Spunk, along with sonic explorer/vocalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Kristin Andersen—were also on-hand for the Molde performance, alongside TJO regulars including trumpeters Eivind L?nning (back after a cross-Canada festival tour with pianist Christian Wallumr?d's Ensemble) and Hayden Powell, saxophonists Sissel Vera Pettersen and Eirik Hegdal, clarinetist Morten Barrikmo,
Jaga Jazzist
band / ensemble / orchestraOla Kvernberg
violinb.1981
Mats Eilertsen
bassb.1975
The music capitalized on the deep chemistry Dale and Roligheten have built over the past few years, and a language predicated on the saxophonist's extended techniques that included softly articulated multiphonics and a variety of percussive textures. Expanded and orchestrated for the TJO, Albatrosh's music was able to do things that it could often only imply as a duo, combining its intrinsic intimacy with a much broader palette. For one thing, some of this music actually grooved—at one point, swinging, even—while Roligheten was able to combine his extended sonics with those, in particular, of L?nning, whose experience in the duo Streifenjunko with saxophonist Espen Reintertsen explores similar territory. Rolgheten and L?nnning forged a particularly lovely trio with Lo on the third piece of the set, creating a gentle, warm ambiance that somehow managed to seamlessly come together as a single voice.
Knotty melodies, stop/start time and lush harmonies that made full use of the 12-piece TJO—and, at times, Pettersen, who occasionally put down her saxophone to sing wordless vocals to add yet another color to the group—as Albatrosh also provided feature opportunities for everyone in the ensemble but, of particular note, those from Johannessen and Kvernberg, who both seemed capable of just about anything. As the suite of music drew to a close with Dale's gently dark, majestic playing and the horns softly swirling around him, the audience rose to its feet to give the group a well-deserved ovation. Whether or not this music is performed again, one thing is certain: a recording of this music isn't just wanted, it's needed.
July 16: Bill Frisell Big Sur Quartet / Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses
While a daytime trip, by boat and bus, to the Atlantic Road—and pre-lunch speeches from saxophonist/NORCD label head
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data-original-title="" title="">Karl Seglem (who also gave a couple of impromptu goat horn performances on the boat), Norsk Jazzforum's ?yvind Skjerven Larsen, and Trondheim jazz conservatory head Erling Aksdal (who shed some intriguing light on just how this world-famous school manages to turn out so many musicians with fresh and distinct voices), along with a too-brief solo performance from drummer Gard Nilssen (a member of numerous groups but appearing twice at Molde, with Bushman's Revenge and Obara International Quartet)—sadly meant missing 
Tim Berne
saxophone, altob.1954
First up, guitarist
Bill Frisell
guitar, electricb.1951
Jenny Scheinman
violinb.1979
Eyvind Kang
violab.1971
Hank Roberts
cellob.1954
Stian Westerhus
guitarSome of the buzz has been because, for the first time, Westerhus has put together a group predicated on actual written music, but it's also been anticipated as it also represents a first for Westerhus: singing. And so, a couple hours after Frisell left the stage of Plassen's Teatret V?rt Konsert, the chairs were gone and a packed standing room crowd eagerly waited for Westerhus & Pale Horses to hit the stage. Unfortunately, while the trio demonstrated plenty of promise, this first live appearance was fraught with sound problems—for the most part, the sound coming off the stage possessing little clear definition, which was unfortunate as all three players are so distinctive, both individually and collectively.
A conversation with Moen the day after the show also revealed that its set only represented about one-third of the music the group had rehearsed; perhaps it would have been a better show had there been less expansion of the music and a little more concision. Westerhus' voice occupied an upper register, making the overall drone-like complexion of the music somewhat akin to Iceland's Sigur Rós, but with sharper teeth; still, the set was too monolithic (no pun intended) in nature, for the most part occupying a single dynamic space with the exception of one brief moment where, with the lights a deep red, Westerhus stood alone, bowing his guitar and creating the set's most beautiful moment. A little more breadth of dynamics, a lot more definition in the sound and a bit more distinction in the material will go a long way to making Pale Horses the group that its Molde debut clearly promised. Still, there's a huge difference between rehearsal spaces and live venues, and if this group's first show lacked in any way, the knowledge of who its members are and of what they're capable suggests that it's a group well worth following: more, and most certainly better, is sure to come.
July 17: Jason Moran & Bandwagon / Terje Rypdal The Sound of Dreams / Bushman's Revenge
For Jason Moran's third show as part of his week-long residency, he delivered an afternoon set with his longstanding Bandwagon trio—bassist Taurus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits—that focused largely on music by or inspired by
Fats Waller
piano1904 - 1943
A player rivaled only by
Craig Taborn
pianob.1970
That relaxed sense of playfulness defined the entire set. At one point, a recording of some delta blues slide guitar began as Moran said, "And now for some real blues," returning to the stage a few moments later with a set of shakers that he began to play near the piano mics as Waits took a solo that revolved around a second line rhythm, the trio coming back in for a tune based on a single motivic idea that was deconstructed and then reconstructed into something that epitomized why Bandwagon has remained together for so long: the looks around the stage made clear that there was as much surprise, amongst the musicians, as there was in the audience.
A few hours later in the same venue (Plassen's Teatret V?rt Konsert), Terje Rypdal premiered a new piece, commissioned by the festival. Titled The Sound of Dreams, it expanded his longstanding Skywards Trio of keyboardist St?le Storl?kken (
Supersilent
band / ensemble / orchestra
Humcrush
band / ensemble / orchestra
Elephant9
band / ensemble / orchestra
Paolo Vinaccia
drums1954 - 2019
Arild Andersen
bass, acousticb.1945
Jon Christensen
drums1943 - 2020
It's unfortunate that Hovensjo was unable to make it, as it would have meant a marriage of Rypdal's legacy bands from the '70s—both Christensen and Hovensjo playing on the guitarist's early ECM recordings—with his more recent concerns. That both Rypdal and Christensen were members of "the big five" that, also including
Jan Garbarek
saxophoneb.1947
Bobo Stenson
pianob.1944
First, Rypdal has never played better. His tone—that tone—was as instantly recognizable as Frisell's the previous night, and his overdriven, whammy-bar informed lines were as exhilarating as they've ever been. But beneath the rock stance, Rypdal has also divided his career between more jazz-centric recordings and work in the contemporary classical sphere, stemming from his discovery of Gy?rgy Ligeti in the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's iconic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey—his most recent Melodic Warrior (ECM, 2013) finally allowing recordings nearly a decade old, with the renowned Hilliard Ensemble, to see the light of day.
While The Sound of Dreams wasn't as decidedly classical in tone, neither was it rock-inflected either—though Rypdal's three encores ("The Curse," "Mystery Man," and "Tough Enough," culled from across his 50-year career) demonstrated that the more
Jimi Hendrix
guitar, electric1942 - 1970
It was a terrific ensemble that even found Christensen, who has long since left playing more straightforward time, slamming his snare and cymbals together with the powerful Vinaccia—whose playing, for the most part, drove the set, while Christensen largely added color and texture. While an old radio recording acted as something of a rallying point during The Sound of Dreams, the music was largely atmospheric in nature, with large rubato sections.
Given that everyone else in the group had a history with Rypdal—his son Marius also appearing on his father's Vossabrygg (ECM, 2006), Lassen—despite looking and, with his name, sounding distinctly Nordic but, in fact, an American who moved to Bergen 17 years ago and is currently a member of the city's symphony orchestra—was the performance's real surprise. Bassoon isn't a particularly easy instrument, and an even more difficult improvising instrument, but Rypdal's choice of the bassoon as a melodic foil for his guitar was an inspired one, and when Lassen was given some latitude, as he was during the set but especially during the encore, he proved himself a superb soloist, with terrific tone, great ideas and absolutely none of the problems that plague lesser bassoonists like
Daniel Smith
bassoon- 2015
Storl?kken—largely working his usual gritty magic with a Hammond organ—provided all kinds of textures in support of Rypdal and Lassen, as well as adapting some of Hosenvjo's parts to his bass pedals and, when given the chance, soloing with the kind of relentless invention that's made his career one where the upper limits of his talent and capacity have yet to be found. A mid-section interlude, where Vinaccia played with an old radio set up nearby onstage, provided some of the show's most comedic moments though (and the drummer agreed in conversation, after the show), in truth, they went on a little too long and could have benefited either from additional participation by others in the band (during soundcheck, when an old Italian song came up, Rypdal through his hands in the air, screaming "I love you, I love you!") or by some judicious trimming.
But, like Westerhus & Pale Horses, this was a first performance, and it's not uncommon for debuts to require a little judicious editing. But with no idea what to expect and with Rypdal playing at the top of his game, The Sound of Dreams was a performance that will absolutely go down as yet another memorable show for Molde 2013—and hopefully one that will find its way to release a little more quickly than Melodic Warrior.
Since releasing its 2007 Jazzaway debut, Cowboy Music—but especially since signing with Rune Grammofon in 2009 and releasing its label debut, You Lost Me At Hello—Bushman's Revenge has evolved into one of Norway's more popular electric bands. A power trio featuring guitarist Even Helte Hermansen, electric bassist Rune Nergaard and drummer Gard Nilssen, the trio has become even better-known for its incendiary live shows, something that can finally be heard on its vinyl-and download-only live release, Electric Komle: Live! (Rune Grammofon, 2013). With six albums under its belt, what to do next?
The answer came with its midnight Molde performance, also at Teatret V?rt Konsert: invite some friends to the party and see what happens. Given those friends were violinist Ola Kvernberg (with whom Hermansen is a member of the newly formed Grand General, whose 2013 Rune Grammofon debut is one of the year's best debuts) and saxophonist Kjetil M?ster (whose Edvard Lygre M?ster (Hubro, 2013) is the long-awaited and red-hot recording from the quartet that first debuted in Kongsberg in 2010), it was a fair guess that what was going to happen was going to be something not just electric, but something positively nuclear.
And it was. Prior to the show, Hermansen, M?ster and Kvernberg talked about being a little under-rehearsed, but other than both guests having music stands onstage (a rarity), there was no telling. And if Bushman's Revenge has evolved in one particular place it's been the writing, making its Molde show a combination of strong material and even stronger playing. For those who question the jazz cred of this high octane group, a thundering version of
Ornette Coleman
saxophone, alto1930 - 2015
M?ster—one of the few saxophonists to be seen playing through an Ampeg stack, with plenty of foot pedals on the floor in front of him—has the benefit of great tone without all that gear, so when it's added to his tenor and baritone horns, the result is a sound that's positively massive. Kvernberg's violin may not be quite so huge, but his ability to soar over the hardest-rocking, mixed meter grooves makes him Norway's answer to
Jerry Goodman
violin
King Crimson
band / ensemble / orchestrab.1969
Mahavishnu Orchestra
band / ensemble / orchestrab.1971
John McLaughlin
guitarb.1942
Continuing with the Mahavishnu reference, Nergaard is the quintessential background bassist, like MO's
Rick Laird
bass1941 - 2021
July 18: Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit / Take Five Europe
With the debut of Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit one of the most eagerly anticipated events for the lion's share of Molde Jazz Expo delegates—not to mention many of the festival's Norwegian attendees—the Norwegian drummer had a lot to live up to, but he more than did so with an afternoon show that, rather than simply rely on the undeniable improvisational prowess of its eleven members, also worked off the strength of Nilssen-Love's writing, which provided plenty of context around which the group could extemporize freely.
Still, it was not a show for the faint of heart—two drummers (in addition to Nilssen-Love, Andreas Wildhagen), two bassists (Jon Rune Strom and Christian Me?s Svendsen, playing both electric and acoustic variants), two saxophonists (altoist Klaus Holm and alto/baritone Kasper V?rnes), trumpet (Thomas Johansson), trombone (the particularly impressive Mats ?leklint), tuba (Borre Molstad), guitar (Ketil Gutvik) and electronics (Lasse Marhaug)—meant there was plenty of potential for some seriously joyful noise.
Opening with an exercise in organized chaos, the music may have, at times, felt completely and utterly free—and it was—but there was still an underlying structure that shaped the overall context when it came time to let loose and fire on all cylinders. The set's second piece possessed a more defined groove—though, with both drummers going at it like there was no tomorrow, it was sometimes buried in a clatter of snares, cymbals, toms and bass drums.
What gave the set its contrast and diversion was how the group broke down into various subsets; nothing intrinsically new there, but with Wildhagen as capable of frenzied polyrhythms as Nilssen-Love, it allowed the leader to sit out for periods of time, and to, at times, conduct the group, albeit with far less than the grand gestures such music might suggest.
With an eleven-tet this strong, it was particularly remarkable that ?leklint stood out, but his control over multiphonics was especially impressive, as was his ability to swoop down into low guttural registers in an a cappella solo that was one of the set's highlights, leading to a similarly impressive turn from Molstad.
At the end of the day, what gave Nilssen-Love's Large Unit its voice was the writing. While the free moments seemed discernible, there were times where the group appeared to dissolve into utter chaos; but when both drummers suddenly came together with identical patterns, it became clear that not all was what it seemed, making it all the more impressive—and demanding—that a recording find its way to the world...and soon.
Having just recently reviewed a duo evening by Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran (with the addition of a first-time encounter with Bill Frisell, both in duo with the saxophonist and in trio with both Lloyd and Moran) in Montreal, full coverage of another performance a scant two weeks later seemed unnecessary. But without going into full detail, the performance the two musicians—one almost double the other's age—gave in Molde was still absolutely noteworthy; perhaps because, without the addition of a third member, it was an even better pure duo set that gave Moran and Lloyd more opportunity and time with which to build their set. Lloyd was in particularly fine form; given that this show was part of Moran's residency made no difference in the music the two made, but the flow of the set was particularly strong, a transcendent series of tunes that reflected both Moran's broad-scoped knowledge and Lloyd's indomitable spirituality.
Back in January, at the end of a week of musical woodshedding and, for some, a little music-as-business force-feeding, the performances of original material at Take Five Europe were good but a little tired after a week of little sleep—more a promise of what was to come. Nearly six months later, and with a few gigs under their collective belt, the members of Take Five Europe—dubbed "European Sunrise"—delivered a far more impressive set at Plassen's smaller Teatret V?rt Natt (capacity: approximately 150). Trimmed down from a tentet to a nonet through the unavailable saxophonist Guillaume Perret, but further pared to an octet when trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz ran into some travel delays, the remaining eight members—bassist
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