The innovative pianist Vijay Iyer is this year’s Artist In Residence during the Molde 17. 22. July.
It could be the festival manager Hans-Olav Solli enlighten Thursday.
Iyver will do five concerts, including an exciting collaboration with the Norwegian Cikada-quartet.
There will also be reunion with Pat Metheny, who have visited Molde several times, most recently last year.
He makes three concerts with the Norwegian partners: triokonsert with Arild Andersen and Gard Nilssen, klubbnatt with Jaga Jazzist and a grand concert in Bjørnsonhuset with the Trondheim jazz orchestra.
Ladies and Hancock
In addition, be able Molde to present the new exciting project Ladies! with vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant in the front.
Solli could also tell that jazzambassadør and pianolegende Herbie Hancock is coming with the new project.
From Molde to their press release, scissors we have the following:
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
Holding it Down: the Veterans' Dreams Project
Even if Vijay Iyer is primarily known for his distinctive style within modern jazz, he has often worked with other expressions, that in turn has made an impact in the more jazzrelaterte the music.
Iyer has among other things had a longer collaboration with the producer, DJ, rapper and poet Mike Ladd. It has resulted in three albums with an overhanging civic and politically charged. The last, Holding It Down: the Veterans' Dreams Project, deals with war veterans and, more specifically fargende veterans and their experiences, thoughts and dreams from the wars they have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We also get to meet Viyay Iyer & Craig Taborn. Duoformatet is something jazzlyttere meetings in many kinds of forms, but rather rarely, you hear an improvisational meeting between the two pianists. In this case, the two pianists, both through her interest in improvisation and composition with a wide palette, are two outstanding representatives of the jazz piano is in the present.
Craig Taborn was born in 1970 in Minneapolis. Since 2011, he has on an equal footing with Vijay Iyer recorded discs for ECM, among other things, that solopianist and with his own trio.
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
When Vijay Iyer and the exceptional trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith – who visited Molde with its first concert in Norway ever last summer – went together to play in A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke of the ECM, it was not the first time they had worked together.
Iyer has called the 30-year-older Leo Smith for his “hero, friend and mentor”, and he also played a period in Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet before his own career took speed. The music is impressionistic and meditative, but also fascinating and compelling.
Sekstett and quartet
Vijay Iyers main platform to support it has for a while been trioformatet with piano, bass and drums, but Iyer has on several occasions expanded this format when he sits on the musical ideas that require it.
In livesammenheng he has frequently availed itself of a sparkling sekstett as the excess of the trio with trumpeter Graham Haynes, the Jamaica-born tenor saxophonist Mark Shim, and, not least, Steve Lehman on alto saxophone. When the sextet now will be performing in Molde with the batteristfenomenet Tyshawn Sorey in place of Gilmore on drums.
In 2014 came Vijay Iyers first album in his own name on the ECM under the title Mutations – for string quartet, piano and electronics. The project is clearly driven by his mathematical fasinasjon for the pattern, the freedom that is in pianoimprovisasjon, and also his past as kammerfiolinist.
Metheny / Andersen / Nilssen
Concert Pat Metheny did with our Norwegian stjernebassist Arild Andersen and Paal Nilssen-Love at Molde in 2001 was one for the history books. When He was asked to do a new concert with Metheny during this year’s festival, he proposed immediately drummer Gard Nilssen as Andersen has played a lot together in the last year, both in trio and sekstett. This is a trio that will the sparks fly!
Jaga Jazzist is the musical collective from Norway who was an international stjerneband. They have worked purposefully and hard for more than twenty years and has built up a large fan base in Norway and abroad in the great world with its unique music. The band’s creative and seamless blend of acoustic and electronic is experienced still as fresh and exciting now as when the band got its breakthrough in 2001.
Pat Metheny and Trondheim jazz orchestra
Trondheim jazz orchestra is superbandet with the shifting crew that constantly provides exciting plates and riveting concerts to superlativspekkede reviews.
the Orchestra played with Metheny in 2001 when he was Artist-In-Residence, and in 2003 was the collaboration followed up with a tour of norway. In the years Metheny very much like to take up the thread, and completely new events written by Erik Hegdal and Ole Morten Vågan will be premiered during the concert in Bjørnsonhuset
Ladies!
Ladies! is an exciting project with seven leading musicians fronted by the charismatic vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, who won the Grammy for best jazzalbum in 2015 and for the best vokaljazzalbum in 2016.
The other is Anat Cohen (clarinet), Melissa Aldana (sax), Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Noriko Ueda (bass), Allison Miller (drums), and Renee Rosnes (piano and producer). The band presents an eclectic repertoire characterized by carefully selected standards.
Herbie Hancock
19. July jazzambassadøren and pianolegenden Herbie Hancock back to Molde and Bjørnsonhuset, and that’s with a brand new project.
Hancock has the last few years geared itself more towards a younger and modern generation of musicians, collaborators and producers, and this shows itself also in the crew. He has a saxophonist and a keyboardist Terrace Martin who also is a well-known manufacturer. On drums he has Vinnie Colaiuta, known from countless collaborations with the world’s musikkpionerer as Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell. On bass he has with James Genus and on the guitar he has with the west african Lionel Loueke.
the Latter also opens for a wider musical expression, which is in Hancock talks about in connection with his upcoming release, where Loueke contributes. This is a new project from an obviously engaged Hancock.
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