30.04.2004 - Einlass: 21:00:00 Beginn: 21:30:00
Aufsturz - Oranienburger Strasse 67-68, 10117
FRODE GJERSTAD TRIO
Frode Gjerstad Trio - Frode Gjerstad - Altsaxophon, Klarinette
Frode Gjerstad Trio - Morten Olsen - Schlagzeug
Frode Gjerstad Trio - Anders Hana - Elektro-Gitarre
In the past, Frode Gjerstad has played in trios with Hamid Drake, William Parker, John Stevens, Johnny Dyani, Kent Carter, Wilber Morris, Rashid Bakr, John Edwards and Mark Sanders. This trio is Frodes latest band with two very young and talented musicians who in a short time have made their mark on the Norwegian and Amsterdam free improvised music scene.
Anders Hana is involved with bands playing live electronics, noise and guitars of all kinds.
Morten Olsen studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory and has recently taken part in a tour with Steve Lacy. He is also very much involved with electronics and has invented a personal way to combine electronics and percussion.
Frode Gjerstad has chosen to play mainly with international musicians because there has not been a tradition in Norway for playing this music. However, a number of younger musicians are now picking up on the music over the last few years. His relationship with John Stevens which started in -81 and lasted up until his death in -94 was of great importance both musically as well as on a personal level.Through Stevens, he was introduced to some of the finest British improvisers and got to know their way of playing quite well. After -94, he has played with a number of US musicians like Borah Bergmann, Hamid Drake, William Parker and Rashid Bakr as well as with German Peter Brøtzmann. He has also built his first all-Norwegian trio with Øyvind Storesund and Paal Nilssen-Love with whom he has toured Europe and North-America. Since 1984, he has also been active, running a group of very young Norwegian musicians, the Circulasione Totale Orchestra where he is dealing with electric instruments and modern rock-oriented rhythms. He has used the band to present his own compositions as well as a workshop and place for young people to get to know free improvisations. The band presented a comissioned work at the Molde Festival in -89 with a 13 man band combining free improvisastions, compositions as well as rapping and scratching.(Three horns, three bassists, three drummers, accordeon, guitar a rapper and a scrather). He has received several grants from various foundations and has been very active in the Norwegian Jazzmusicians Federation as well as in the committee for the Norwegian Contemporary Music Federation. ~ Voted Jazz Musician of the Year in Norway , 1997.
HiFi News: (England) Ben Watson: In the early 1980's alto saxophonist Frode Gjerstad led a superb trio, Detail, with Johnny Dyani, bass and John Stevens, drums. Unjustly overshadowed by his compatriot Jan Garbarek, Frode Gjerstad is a more vital player, less dependant on Getz/Trane cliches. Here the New York rhythm-section is superb, laying down a groove simultaneously brutal and sensitive. Welding such a profusion of idias into emotional coherence is not easy. When achieved, hipsters call it: top-notch living jazz.
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