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Nils Petter Molvaer

Born: September 18, 1960

Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles—jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music—and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity.

Born in 1960 on the little island Sula (Norway), NPM was introduced to jazz from an early age by his musician father. After playing in school bands and local clubs he left Sula in 1979 to study music at the conservatory of Trondheim, where he developed his unique style and started to gain a reputation as one of Norway's emerging new talents.

His interest in both acoustic and electric music shows the ease with which he handles the conventions of pop, rock and funk, alongside those of modern jazz

Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors

by Martin Longley
December 9, 2024

Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...

Eivind Aarset e Jan Bang al Roma Jazz Festival 2023

by Mario Calvitti
January 8, 2024

Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang Roma Jazz Festival 2023 Teatro Studio, Parco della Musica Roma 12.11.2023 Il chitarrista norvegese Eivind Aarset dopo una iniziale gavetta si è fatto notare dal grosso pubblico verso la fine degli anni '90, con la partecipazione a due album pubblicati da ECM, Small Labyrinths del ...

The Most Exciting Jazz albums since 1969: 2006-2009

by Robert Middleton
November 13, 2023

If there were one word to describe these six thrilling albums, it would be “atmospheric." Each of them settles into its own unique and memorable soundscape. Stylistically, they are all very different, but if you listen closely to them, you'll quickly grasp their musical and emotional messages. They'll transport you to their rarefied worlds with their ...

Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band: Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 2, 2023

Continua a sfornare grandi album Moserobie, etichetta creata da Jonas Kullhammar sassofonista e illuminato agitatore musicale svedese. Perché di un grande album questo Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band si tratta. Non il classico schema solista-orchestra ma un organismo proteiforme, sorprendente, che si scompone, si assottiglia, si nasconde, esplode, si rilassa, creatura dadaista che solletica i ...

Vossa Jazz Going Strong and Poetic at 50

by Josef Woodard
April 12, 2023

Vossa Jazz Voss, Norway March 31-April 2, 2023 Origin stories in the still-young-ish wild frontier of jazz festival culture can be fascinating case studies in feisty pioneer spirit. Take the Western Norwegian Vossa Jazz Festival, an important stop in the storied Norwegian festival circuit, which celebrated its ripe old 50th birthday this ...

Radka Toneff, Steve Dobrogosz: Fairytales

by Angelo Leonardi
September 26, 2022

L'album jazz norvegese più importante della storia torna sul mercato nel quarantennale della sua pubblicazione. Il giudizio è stato espresso in un referendum del 2011 che ha coinvolto i musicisti del paese scandinavo ed è risultato in linea con le scelte del pubblico: Fairytales è tuttora il più venduto album jazz norvegese. Per ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Nils Petter Molvaer

September 18, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Nils Petter Molvaer's birthday today! Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles—jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music—and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. Born in 1960 on the little ...

Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree

by Dan McClenaghan
February 15, 2022

In 2002, the Natsuki Tamura Quartet released an album called Hada Hada (Libra Records). It sounded as if it was plugged into ten thousand volts, even Tamura's trumpet, and especially Satoko Fujii's synthesizer, in the making of a soundtrack to a “Cyborgs March on the Capitol" movie. And those cyborgs were mad. Odd stuff. In 2022, ...

Jo Berger Myhre: Unheimlich Manoeuvre

by Dan McClenaghan
October 28, 2021

Norwegian bassist Jo Berger Myhre is not new to the music scene—he has worked extensively with Nils Petter Molvaer's quartet, contributing to the trumpeter's Buoyancy (Okeh, 2016) and Stitches (Modern Recordings, 2021). But Unheimlich Manoeuvre is Myhre's first recording under his own name. In experiencing the artistry of a new (to a particular listener) ...