The Core: Roots

by Mark Corroto
May 6, 2024

It has been over a decade since a release from the Norwegian jazz band The Core. Founded in 2001, the quartet released half a dozen albums before mostly going their separate ways. Saxophonist Kjetil Møster worked with Gard Nilssen, Mats Gustafsson, and Per Zanussi, pianist Erlend Slettevoll with Hedvig Mollestad and Petter Wettre, bassist Steinar Raknes with Tord Gustavsen, and drummer Espen Aalberg in the Basement Sessions with Jonas Kullhammar and Torbjörn Zetterberg. Roots, the ensemble's ninth recording, ...

The Core: Office Essentials

by John Kelman
June 9, 2008

Those believing the Norwegian scene is all about Nordic Cool and electro-centric improv might change their minds after hearing The Core's Office Essentials. Owing as much to John Coltrane's classic mid-1960s quartet as it does the closer-to-home Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet of the 1970s, The Core is as far from cool as you can get; delivering some of the hottest music to come out of Norway since early Garbarek albums like Afric Pepperbird (ECM, 1970) and Sart (ECM, 1971). But ...

The Core: Office Essentials / Meditations On Coltrane / The Indian Core

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 25, 2008

The Core is one the most exciting jazz bands in Norway today. The group takes the legacy of saxophonist John Coltrane's classic quartet plus the 1960s' “new thing" innovations of fellow saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp, along with closer to home influences such as pianist Keith Jarrett's Scandinavian quartet of the 1970s--which featured Norwegians saxophonist Jan Garbarek and drummer Jon Christensen--and charges it with the visceral energy of rock and metal music to present fresh and bold statements.

The Core: Blue Sky

by Tom Greenland
October 27, 2006

The Core is an exciting, highly energetic young band from Norway, consisting of Espen Aalberg (drums), Kjetil Møster (tenor, soprano saxophones), Erlend Slettevoll (piano) and Steinar Raknes (bass), with Nils Olav Johansen (guitar) sitting in. Drawing their inspiration from such '60s energy players as Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, these former schoolmates of the jazz academy in Trondheim have developed impressive technique and close collective cohesion. Blue Sky, their second release (following 2004's Vision), features a ...

How To Market To Your Core Fans

Source: HypeBot
July 8, 2017

Cultivating and caring for your core fans is one of the key aspects of maintaining lively and profitable fan base. Here we look at how to successful market to your core fans without scaring them away with overzealousness. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Music 4.1 is totally dependent upon the development, care, and feeding of your fanbase. This audience can be broken down into the following two categories: your casual fans and your core fans. Your core ...
read more

A Core Flaw In Music's Blockchain [Chris Castle]

Source: HypeBot
June 13, 2017

Although many in the music industry are excited by the possibilities of blockchain's potential, others like Chris Castle are more skeptical, particularly of it's need to be forced on rights holders as a means of making the technology scalable. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions The truth about blockchain is that at its core, it requires its regime to be enforced on rights owners in order to scale�Cand that is its essential flaw. Call me a blockchain ...
read more

French Jazz-Core Trio "Toc" Release "Air Bump" With The Compulsive Brass

Source: Peter Orins
November 15, 2016

After the release of Le Gorille (2009), Dance (2012), Haircut (2014) and Qeqertarsuatsiaat (2016), Toc has incorporated sounds of the bayou, the French Quarter and brass bands into their latest, Air Bump. Available on Vinyl, CD, FLAC HD, MP3. Christian Pruvost: trumpet Sakina Abdou: alto and soprano saxophone Jean-Baptiste Rubin: baritone and tenor saxophone Maxime Morel: tuba and trombone Jérémie Ternoy: Fender Rhodes, piano bass Ivann Cruz: guitar ...
read more

Tokyo Label Core Port Releases "Deep Immersion" by Bassist & Composer Konstantin Ionenko

Source: Valentyn Tsaryk
November 20, 2015

Over the last decade, Konstantin Ionenko has been engaged in several jazz projects spanning different countries, though only a small number of which were recorded and released. A solo project was just a matter of time as Ionenko's composing talent has been highly praised by colleagues and audience alike. His debut release Deep Immersion contains seven original songs composed by Ionenko, at different periods of his life. The quintet features bright and talented young musicians from the Ukraine and eastern ...
read more

KCC Productions Presents Jowee Omicil And The Core At The Metropolitan Room (NYC) Saturday, February 23 At 11:30 PM

Source: Kimberly C Chmura
February 11, 2013

This is a show you don't want to miss. Saxophone and winds master Jowee Omicil is in possession of what is simply one of the most soothing, soulful and spiritual sounds that his instruments of choice have ever rendered. The Montreal-born musician of Haitian descent had the distinct honor of being invited to perform for the White House��s inaugural observation of Haitian Flag Day on May 18, sharing the enveloping sound of his alto and soprano saxophones and clarinet for ...
read more

Trumpet Ace Melvin Jones Hits Straight to the Core on His "Pivot" Album

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
August 19, 2011

I am not going to mess with a lot of words today. That's because a lot of words are not needed to capture what Melvin Jones's Pivot (Turnaround 1004) is all about. Mr. Jones plays trumpet with a brash and bold extroversion that puts him in the Lee Morgan-Freddie Hubbard-Woody Shaw bracket. Hook him up with a very hot band (like the one here), let him get his own tunes in there, and let loose. This is music with that ...
read more

For Hard Core Audiophiles

Source: Groove Notes
June 8, 2010

read more

Core Music Bundle Offers New Method for Jazz Education

Source: Michael Ricci
May 16, 2010

Fifty years ago, learning jazz was based on apprenticeship on the bandstand, preceded by lessons with a classical teacher and a lot of hanging at the clubs. Possibly the latter was substituted by the new Long Play stereo records. Since then, jazz has become an institutionalized art form with prescribed course material. The books have often received a position as one-stop solutions; some deservingly, others far more questionably. Where classical music education found its uniformly accepted teaching methods centuries ago, ...
read more

Will Apple Launch a Quad-Core Macbook Pro at Macworld?

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2008

Some are speculating that Apple's top-of-the-line notebook could receive a significant chip upgrade at January's Macworld Expo.

When Apple refreshed its MacBook family in October, it mysteriously left out the 17-inch MacBook Pro -- Apple's high-end notebook designed for creative professionals. Incidentally, APC noticed Intel quietly added a new quad-core mobile processor to its CPU line. APC deduces that it's likely Apple stalled on upgrading the 17-inch MacBook Pro to await Intel's quad-core mobile processor, dubbed the Core 2 Extreme ...
read more

Rob Scheps Core-Tet Sunday November 11th at Jalopy in Brooklyn, NY

Source: All About Jazz
November 5, 2007

On Sunday night November 11th, The Rob Scheps Core-tet makes a startling re-entry at Jalopy. Located in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, Jalopy is 1 of the hippest new NYC venues. Sunday Nov. 11th THE ROB SCHEPS CORE-TET ROB SCHEPS- TENOR SAX, FLUTE JAMIE REYNOLDS - PIANO CAMERON BROWN - BASS JEFF BRILLINGER - DRUMS

Playing music from their upcoming cd" Global Citizens" recorded in Norway this summer.

8 ...
read more