Arve Henriksen was first on stage for the 4th night of the Skopje Jazz Festival followed by Jon Hassell. The Norwegian night brought some experimental sounds in Jazz. Skopje, Macedonia, 25/10/2009.
Arve Henriksen was first on the stage at the 4th night of Skopje Jazz Festival followed by Jon Hassell. The Norwegian night brought some experimental sounds in Jazz.
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Arve Henriksen is one of the most breathtaking new voices in European jazz these days, known for his very unique and personal voice on the trumpet. Born in 1968, he studied at the Trondheim Conservatory from 1987-1991, and has worked as a freelance musician since 1989. During the years, he has collaborated with many musicians familiar to ECM listeners, including Jon Balke, David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, Marilyn Mazur, Djivan Gasparian, Nils Petter Molvær, Misha Alperin, Jon Christensen Arild Andersen, Dhafer Youssef, Hope Sandoval, Imogen Heap, Cikada String Quartet, The Source and more. He has played in a wide spectre of contexts, ranging from working with japanese koto player Satsuki Odamura, to the rock band Motorpsycho via numerous free improvising groups. Today he is working with Supersilent, Christian Wallumrod Ensemble and Trygve Seim Ensemble. After three interesting albums for the Norwegian avant garde record company Rune Grammofon, he returns this year with his new album Cartography (ECM), a fully realised solo work of astonishing grace and power. For the occasion of Skopje Jazz Festival, Arve Henriksen is joined by Jan Bang, a musician and producer from Kristiansand, Norway. His main instruments are live sampling, programming. He is a permanent member of Nils Petter Molværs band, Arve Henriksen trio, and a duo project with Sidsel Endresen. He has played with a range of improvisational artists including Jan Garbarek, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Audun Kleive. Bang has won four Norwegian Grammys as producer.
Composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell is the visionary creator of a style of music he describes as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. In the last two decades, his recordings, built around a completely unique "vocal" trumpet style (developed in studies with Indian vocal master, Pandit Pran Nath) have inspired a generation of his collaborators like Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kronos Quartet and Ry Cooder. His trumpet show up on records of world stars like Bjоrk, Baaba Maal, David Sylvian, Talking Heads and Ibrahim Ferrer. Film and theater credits include scores and performing for Wim Wenders'Million Dollar Hotel, The Last Temptation of Christ and many more. Born in 1937 in Memphis, he attended Schools of Music in Rochester and Washington, before studying in Europe under the legendary Karlheinz Stockhausen. After subsequent collaborations with minimalist pioneers La Monte Young and Terry Riley, Hassell mounted a number of solo pieces known collectively as the Landmusic Series. The Fourth World concept was introduced with 1978's Vernal Equinox. The jazz-inspired Earthquake Island appeared a year later, and in 1980 Hassell issued Possible Musics/Fourth World Vol. 1, a collaboration with Brian Eno. Following 1983's Aka-Dabari-Java/Magic Realism , Hassell did not resurface on record until the legendary ECM release1986's Power Spot. His 1999 acoustic, Fascinoma, produced by Ry Cooder, with bansri flute master, Ronu Majumdar and jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson, inspired a new generation of European trumpet players like Arve Henriksen, Erik Truffaz, Paolo Fresu and Nils Petter Molvaer. Hassell returned in 2005 with the release of Maarifa Street: Magic Realism. In 2009, Hassell released the much lauded ECM effort Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street.
