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| | KEN VANDERMARK / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE DUO
CRACOW JAZZ FALL 2009
One of the summits of Krakow jazz fall 2009!
The best free jazz!
Ken Vandermark (USA) - saxes, clarinets
Paal Nilssen-Love (Norwegia) - drums
Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love are two of the busiest musicians nowadays, touring almost all year round and releasing five to ten records a year.
They started playing together in 2000 in the quartet, then quintet, School Days. Since then, they have collaborated in many different groups like the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Free Music Ensemble…all have played in Krakow.
As a duo they have released three albums so far (one of them is a double) and another one will be available at the concert.
The fully improvised music they create together is in the centre of all music. They definitely redefine the saxophones/ drums duet during long developments where minimalism, free jazz, soulful sounds, raw funk and free rock are mixed to elaborate unique masterpieces.
Intense, energetic, melodic, creative, passionate…a must see and listen!
Written: Antoine de La Roncière
Oder voices:
Vandermark and Nilssen-Love started their collaboration in 2000 when the group School Days was formed. One year later they started FME, a trio with bass player Nate McBride. After this it seemed very natural to define a duo. The first occasion for this format was when they recorded the cd ”Dual Pleasure” in Oslo during the summer of 2002. Shortly after this they performed their first duo concert at Molde International Jazz Festival.
“Dual Pleasure” was released by the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound and has received excellent reviews, for example this statement by the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet (Terje Mosnes): “This is free improvised music of very high energy. Vandermark is stretching the tenor, baritone saxophone and Bb clarinet in a continuous flow of tones and timbres, whilst the Stavanger-drummer Nilssen-Love proves his reputation of being the avant-garde jazz’ most powerful mallet and stick wizard. However, Vandermark’s logical lines stir the flow of energy. Though tonal and rhythmic patterns/structures appear, the duo does not seek simple solutions. This is raw music, with a brutal beauty, which becomes more and more exhilarating the more you let the music take control of body and mind and set aside the normal understanding of nice and ugly.”
Vandermark is also known for the work with his own quintet the Vandermark 5, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, the Territory Band, Spaceways Inc., and the DKV Trio. In 1999 Vandermark was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, previous recipients of this prize in the field of music include Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton and Max Roach. He has also been was voted ”Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” in the critic's poll of the American jazz magazine Down Beat, both as composer and as a tenor saxophonist, every year since 2000.
Nilssen-Love has, during the last couple of years, established himself on the international scene as a powerful drummer with high energy and creativity. In 2002 he was "Artist in Residence" at Molde International Jazz Festival, a title Chick Corea and Pat Metheny held in previous years. After 7 days and 9 concerts at the festival, Down Beat stated, "His week at Molde proved a revelation: Nilssen-Love is one of the most innovative, dynamic and versatile drummers in jazz."
Their musical expression results from the influence of several traditions, both geographic and historical. In this duo, Vandermark and Nilssen-Love use free improvisation as a means to explore all levels of dynamics, density, rhythm, timbre, form and tonality. The results of their work are experienced as intense, exhilarating, and boundary breaking.
Other recordings available with Vandermark and Nilssen-Love are: School Days, "Crossing Division,” Okkadisk OD 12037; School Days, "In Our Times," Okkadisk OD 12041 - The Thing and School Days, "The Music of Norman Howard,” Anagram LP 001; FME, "Live at Glenn Miller Café,” Okkadisk OD 10007; FME, "Underground,” Okkadisk; Atomic School Days, "Nuclear Assembly Hall," Okkadisk OD 12049; Territory Band-3, “Map Theory,” Okkadisk.
MORE:
http://www.sofamusic.no/musicians/index.php?id=105
http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/
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