September 13, 2011 - posted in Features, Videos.
It took well over a year, but finally the album the Andreas Pålsson Trio recorded last summer titled “Scrabble” was ready for release earlier this month. To celebrate the occasion, the band performed two great gigs last week, please read on to watch and listen to a full live recording of one of them.
June 28, 2011 - posted in Mixes, Releases.
DJ Patience from Liverpool sent us this excellent vinyl funk mix featuring such greats as Eddie Bo, Honey Cone, Bo Diddley, James Gang, Lee Dorsey etc., and here it is for your listening pleasure:
February 2, 2011 - posted in News.
Norway’s foremost soul performer, Jarle Berhoft, is about to release his second solo album titled “Solidarity Breaks” during the coming months coinciding with a European tour to promote it. On this one he has gone from using a full band to playing, singing and producing most of the tracks himself with a few select collaborators. The result is a much more varied and tighter sounding record than his first one, but it’s still nowhere close to hearing him live which I highly recommend if you have the chance!
December 13, 2010 - posted in Features.
This summer, I was very fortunate to take part in the recording of an amazing new jazz trio live in the studio during a warm May weekend in Oslo.
November 24, 2009 - posted in Mixes, Releases.
The weekend is definitely over, so I guess it’s time to wake up! (no playlist is available for this mix):
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Download link: Funky Halvor – Wake Up (137MB mp3).
November 12, 2009 - posted in Releases, Tracks.
Our Jazz Mafia friends from San Francisco have released a free 15 track sampler of their music:
October 21, 2009 - posted in Releases, Videos.
Here is a one hour long live concert of Jarle Bernhoft performing his solo debut album “Ceramik City Chronicles” backed by a very competent band of musicians at a venue in Oslo called Blå, enjoy! (Sorry about the wrong video aspect ratio, but this is how the original source is encoded).
October 19, 2009 - posted in Albums, Reviews.
I don’t know why or how their only album got made, because the band appeared and then disappeared again almost immediately without any trace. “Newtone” was released just as the acid jazz wave faded out from the charts around the world, and I’m guessing that bad timing probably killed any chance it had to succeed. Originally, a friend of mine bought it on impulse sometime in the late 90’s because the cover looked, well, kinda funky, and surprisingly, the music actually matched his initial expectations and then some!
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