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The 54th Kongsberg Jazz Festival reached one of the many highlights of the Gurls concert, the very special trio that confirmed the impression of this winter's debut album. It's music for all temperatures. The team with the song, saxophone and bass makes Gurls a different kind of band, but at the same time they are on the best band to imagine, with his combination of musical finesse and slight attitude. The overwhelming voice of Rohey Taalah, he always speaks the bass game to Ellen Andrea Wang, and the saxophone – and not least the songs – to Hanna Paulsberg. It's a pretty original approach to style, while having all the basic skills required. The Kongsberg jazz festival in a nutshell
We had already seen Rohey Taalah with the band Rohey the day before, with jazzfunk as a hot afternoon. Hanna Paulsberg was also out on the summer night with her own concert, with songs from the repertoire at Dexter Gordon in a hot cellar of hotel, and provided us with a jazz club in New York in the old days. Where I had never been and the public would hardly be seen in t-shirts and shorts. An Environment and Respectful Tribute to One of the Saxophone Masters
Gurls has warmed up for an a-ha in Oslo Spektrum this winter, but they are clearly better placed in a tight and sweaty club . What has Gurls invited to this work is another indication that the old separators are disappearing. Another example of the same synchronism crossing the genre: Bo Kaspers Orchestra is also a controversial phenomenon in jazz circuits. I did not see them at Kongsberg because I favored Goran Kajfes with his super group Subtropic Arkestra. There, Jonas Kullhammar plays the saxophone, the man who produced the new solo album of Bo Kasper Sundström. The road between pop and jazz becomes smaller. In this case, a few hundred meters. Nobody has to compromise on anything.
Kongsberg is filled with musical extremes that can be combined with great kindness. The "celebration party" is always something for itself. Organized by Paal Nilssen-Love and Ståle Liavik Solberg. The latter goes out in group with Agnes Hvizdalek, Joe McPhee, John Butcher and Pascal Niggenkemper. Yes, it is demanding, I admit that I rather considered watching football matches, but when the first suggestive department was over, there had suddenly been 45 minutes here too.
Charlotte Dos Santos, another sang with great feelings beyond the catchy costume that she wore. A year has passed since the unprecedented album "Cleo". She interpreted the songs from this album, and kindly agreed that she came up with a new song all by herself behind the piano until she was recently in love.The microphone was falling all the time but a soundman did so well and it seems like the song became him.
Marius Neset has been announced as a "special guest" at Chick Corea's concert. A bit unannounced, he finally shot for a two minute solo in the "Spain" section. Corea himself was first fascinated by a permanent audience, it is not common in the most established part of the jazzen to which he belongs, and although he still plays well, the glow was not strong enough to hold on overall hearing after the first hour was completed. Many had left the place where the "special guest" finally got their measured minutes in the spotlight. Fortunately, Marius Neset had already made an opening concert which established him as one of the most special guests of this festival.
I can reveal that to attend the concert with Gurls, I had to make an appearance with Åge Aleksandersen. You really do not have it! Even in the middle of your own "Light and Heat". But I have seen and heard it sometimes over the years. I can also reveal that I saw Di Derre in Kongsberg. Then I sent home and give me home assignment! Add DumDum Boys, CC Cowboys, Bel Canto and Dance With A Stranger, and the Kongsberg Jazz Festival was also a parade in the history of Norwegian pop. This is a little underrated festival
While we expect a new level of support from the Culture Council festival, the Kongsberg Jazz Festival has even fewer public subsidies than the festivals with which it is natural to compare it. The need for self esteem has therefore led to an extra large and good festival program. However, there is a line of clarification (bottom), because if one or more of the biggest popular concerts fail, the accountant is twice as bad. This year, approximately 38,000 tickets sold were sold. Half of them from two concerts, with a-ha and Shaggy / Sting.
Finally, the jazz festival of Kongsberg ended with another highlight, with "Steamdome" by Ola Kvernberg in full width. The album was interpreted in its entirety with great bravery, only interrupted by two men from the gallery, but that did not matter when Tom Stalsberg and Lars Saabye Christensen, with some of the poems that they read earlier on their own poetry song, accompanied by Kvernberg and Amund Maarud. Saabye read, among other things, an "Analysis in C major" and finally added "It was essentially everything."
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And that was practically everything, aside from the 50 concerts that we did not see, which again emphasizes that there is more than Enough jazz at all Kongsberg, despite the pop music. And apart from that, the last one was a night DJ set with Röyksopp, just like in Kongsberg on a nice evening in 2001, before everything went wild around them. A lot has happened in the meantime. In addition, the audience is apparently older. But everyone seemed to be fine.
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