Tore Johansen brought pianist Vigleik Storaas, bassist Jo Skaansar and legendary drummer Jon Christensen to Rainbow Studio and Jan Erik Kongshaug on November 3rd, 2010. The album have waited more than a year to be released as Tore Johansen fulfilled a triology of recordings of songs from Northern Norway.
“Double Rainbow” will be released Friday 10th February and consists of original compositions by Johansen, Storaas and Skaansar. The title track was composed with Jon Christensen’s elegant “freestyle” drumming in mind.
Press here for a little taste.
Tore Johansen – trumpet
Vigleik Storaas – piano
Jo Skaansar – bass
Jon Christensen – drums
2. January, 2012
Eva Trones tolker Terje Nilsen-sanger på sitt kommende album “Tango for en”.
Plata slippes på Inner Ear fredag 11.11.11 kl 11.
Medvirkende:
Eva Trones (vokal)
Tore Johansen (trompet)
Jan Gunnar Hoff (piano)
Finn Robert Olsen (gitar)
Gjermund Silset (bass)
Finn Sletten (trommer og perkusjon)
Innspilt, mikset og mastret i Store studio AS, Bodø, av Håvard Christensen.
www.innerear.no
En liten sniklytt finner du på YouTube
17. October, 2011
Blues In Octaves (Jan Johansson)
Click on above link for a live version of Jan Johansson’s “Blues In Octaves”. Live from Nasjonal Jazzcene/Victoria, Oslo, 23. September 2011.
27. September, 2011
Inner Ear is proud to release trumpeter Hayden Powell’s debut album under his own name. The Attic has just arrived from the printers and will be avaliable on September 16th. Hayden Powell is based in Oslo, Norway. Originally English, Powell moved to Norway as a child and grew up in Molde. He works in a variety of styles with an emphasis on jazz and improvised music.
The Attic consists of ten beautiful compositions, the most of them by Powell, and a couple of tunes written by his fine fellow musicians. There will be a release concert at Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria in Oslo on the date of the release, Friday September 16th.
Hayden Powell – The Attic
(Inner Ear/INEA13)
Hayden Powell – trumpet
Jo Skaansar – bass
Eyolf Dale – piano
Jasper van Hulten – drums
Tore Brunborg – tenor saxophone
Erik Johannessen – trombone
Norwegian jazz drummer Roger Johansen grew up with the TV-series about Pippi Longstockings, Emil, Albert Åberg and other brilliant stories by Astrid Lindgren on TV each Saturday. Little did he know growing up in Bodø in the northern part of Norway, that he some 30 years later, should end up in a recording studio with the composer of all the beautiful melodies from these popular children’s movies. And, he didn’t know either, that Georg Riedel not only was the composer of the beautiful songs, but that he also was the first call jazz bass player in Sweden for some of the true giants of the bebop era in the fifties and sixties, Bud Powell and Eric Dolphy to name a few. Listening to the legendary Jan Johansson recording “Jazz På Svenska” from 1964 with Riedel on bass, set everything in place for Roger. How much more beautiful can the sound of a piano and a upright bass together, be?
It truly is, a very special project set in motion and documented by the jazz label Inner Ear with the release of Fine Together, bringing the jazz bass soul of Mr. Riedel to the studio. The fact that one of Norway’s top drummers teams up with some of his favorite Scandinavian jazz musicians from three generations, both recording and touring Scandinavia, sets the mood for some beautiful listening for true jazz lovers. Platformed by original compositions written by the band members, Fine Together will not only work as a timeless document on what some of the Nordic modern straight-ahead jazz scene sounds like in 2011. It is also indeed a modern project with new music being recorded, cross generations, presented by five human beings and jazz-souls doing what they do best: Playing from their hearts making every song special. Fine Together brings together five first call musicians and friends with their own blossoming solo careers put aside for a moment. The result is remarkable, and it is indeed a band recording, not five individuals. They are In fact, Fine Together.
Roger Johansen featuring Georg Riedel – Fine Together
(Inner Ear/INEA12)
Tore Johansen – trumpet
John Pål Inderberg – baritone sax
Lars Jansson – piano
Georg Riedel – bass
Roger Johansen – drums
Click here for a YouTube video from the recording
Click here for info about the Oslo release concert, Friday September 23th
9. September, 2011
Det er langt, dette landet… – det meste er nord. (Rolf Jacobsen)
Det er ikke likegyldig hvilke låter jazzmusikere spiller soloer over. Det skal være gode melodier på slitesterke tekster. Jazzens pionerer hentet låtmateriale fra sin samtid. Ofte fra Broadwayoppsetninger, samt fra filmer og musikaler. ”Some Day My Prince Will Come” for eksempel, kommer fra Walt Disneys ”Snøhvit” fra 1937 (!) Mens Judy Garland udødeliggjorde ”Somewhere Over The Rainbow” i tegnefilmen “Trollmannen Fra Oz” fra 1939. Men disse musikerne bodde i New York.
Den norske jazztrompeteren Tore Johansen har gjort det samme. Men han bor i Bodø. Han har ikke Manhattans berømte skyline i nabolaget, ei heller silhuetten av de neonfargede teaterreklamene på Times Square. Men det han har, er Nord-Norge. Landet i nord. Det blå landskapet, nordlyset, vinden, havet, fjellene og den uendelige nordnorske horisonten.
I dette friske og noen ganger ugjestmilde landskapet bor det sterke mennesker, og noen av dem lager standardlåter. Eller fantastiske viser som de kalles i vår tid. De blir nok standardlåter i fremtiden. I Tores verden, der han lar noen av våre ypperste jazzmusikere møte de vakreste nordnorske visene, skjer det en varm fusjon som gnistrer både blått og mykt samtidig. Ikke brautende og eplekjekt, men sakte, vart og ærbødig slik også nordlendinger kan være i møte med sterk natur.
Det er en helt spesiell stemning over NORD, Tore Johansens tiende album i eget navn. Bare 33 år gammel har han spilt med “alle”, godt dokumentert på en lang rekke plater og turneer verden over. Med utgivelsen NORD markerer Tore og Inner Ear, at inspirasjon like godt kommer fra det nære som det fjerne utland, og at viseperler hjemmefra gir like mye inspirasjon som instrumentalmusikk fra utlandet. Det er ikke mindre jazz av den grunn. Men den er nærmere oss.
Tore Johansen drar ikke over dammen etter musikk. Han fant fremtidens Nordnorske standardlåter hjemme. Når en av Norges fremste unge jazztrompetister lager sine versjoner av de glitrende låtene til giganter som Halvdan Sivertsen, Ola og Lars Bremnes, Terje Nilsen, Petter Dass og Tove Karoline Knutsen, oppstår det magi.
NORD
Tore Johansen – trompet
Marit Sandvik – sang
Jan Gunnar Hoff – piano
Olaf Kamfjord – kontrabass
Roger Johansen – trommer og perkusjon
Vår gjest Odd Børretzen leser ”Nord” av Rolf Jacobsen
Her finner du en liten smakebit på Youtube.
15. June, 2011
