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A Brief Guide To Icelandic Jazz

by Ingi Bjarni Skúlason
With contributions from Ingrid ?rk Kjartansdóttir and Freysteinn Gislason. Iceland, a country of roughly 400,000 inhabitants in the North Atlantic Ocean, is known for its music, with notable artists such as Bj?rk, Sigur Rós, and more recently, Laufey. You might wonder about the state of jazz in Iceland. In 2023 alone, 26 jazz or ...
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Tumi ?rnason

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Tumi ?rnason is an Icelandic saxophonist, improviser & composer influenced by and drawing from the creative transcendence and open-mindedness of the avant garde, free jazz and improvised music. His 2019 record, ALLT ER ?M?LI?, was the first duo release from saxophonist Tumi ?rnason and drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen (ADHD). The record, inspired by Greek proto-philosopher Anaximanders’ ideas about conceptual abstraction, contains a set of free improvisations and open compositions revolving around the idea of the indefinite; the nature of improvisation, structures that exist but are only hinted at, the space between sounds. Tumi ?rnason's latest release is Hl?nun (2021), a piece that addresses our current existential threat, the climate crisis, through free jazz and experimental improvisation