Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg, Jon Christensen

Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg, Jon Christensen

Genres: jazz, melancholy, norwegian

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About Ketil Bjørnstad, Tore Brunborg, Jon Christensen

This trio project came into existence after Manfred Eicher heard a tape of Bjørnstad and Jon Christensen playing together. A suggestion to add saxophonist Tore Brunborg brought the three Norwegian musicians and producer to Oslo’s Rainbow Studio where the album was very swiftly made – recorded in a single day, and mixed the next, which is fast even by ECM’s famously disciplined standards. As so often, though, this spontaneously realized music making draws on decades of collaborative experiences. Ketil Bjørnstad (born 1952) described as “a cultural prodigy” by The Guardian’s John Fordham, started out as a classical pianist, making his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic, playing Bartók. Encounters with jazz of the late 1960s, especially Miles Davis and John Coltrane, changed his priorities and he was fascinated also by the new Norwegian improvising scene ECM was documenting. Soon he switched streams and began playing with the jazz men. Simultaneously he has maintained a career as a respected writer with many books to his credit – novels, poems, essays and more. His ECM recordings have been incorporated in the soundtracks of numerous films, including several by Jean-Luc Godard: “Notre Musique”, “The Old Place”, “Histoire(s) du Cinéma”, “Forever Mozart” and “Eloge de l’amour”. 2010 is a set to be a big year for Bjørnstad. Another disc is already recorded (duo with cellist Svante Henrykson) and scheduled for fall 2010 release.

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