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Bobby Bradford, cornet, Paal Nilssen-Love, drums, Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten bass and myself have a new CD out: “Reknes”.It was recorded at the Molde festival last year. Nice music! Melodic free jazz with a good portion of straight jazz rhythms….We are going to tour with this group next summer in Europe. Released as Circulasione Totale CTCD [...]

Han Bennink and I played a duo concert at the Molde festival in mid-July. Han was in good form and more or less managed to dismantle the complete drum-set during our performance. In fact, he did it so well, that at one point when he played the ride cymbal really heavy, it fell over and [...]

I received two videos from our gig at the SKIF festival in St.Petersburg made by Grigoriy Boyarskiy  (grifel at gmail dot com).  Allthough they are a bit edited, it still gives you an idea of what we did.

Paal Nilssen-Love and I are playing 5 duo gigs. We startet in Oslo on Monday, June 8th at “Sound og Mu”,  and played  Klub Gromka in Ljubljana yesterday. We had a good crowd and the music was nice. We are doing it again tonight - at Klub Gromka. This club has very nice acoustics and the people here are [...]

We had a great tour! Thanks to all of the promotors who worked with us and to the audiences!
Stine Janvin Motland sang with us when we played Oslo! That was great. I am sure we will work together again. And of cause Hamid Drake did exactly what I was hoping for: 5 wonderful concerts. He inspired [...]

We are playing some gigs next week:
Oslo, Nasjonal Jazzscene, April 29th,    
St. Johann, Austria, April 30th,   
Wien, Porgy & Bess, May 1st,  
The Ulrichsberg festival in Austria May 2nd. 
Zurich, Taktlos/Rote Fabrik , May 3rd
Paal Nilssen-Love and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten will not be playing these concerts. They are on tour  in the US with Mats [...]

I am going to Russia for the first time! The SKIF festival in St. Petersburg have invited me and drummer Ståle Birkeland to play as a duo on April 25th. We have played together for some time, but only done 1 gig. When we started, this was supposed to be more a rehearsal group than [...]

This is from a tour in Enland in December -08

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Here is a clip from Kongsberg -07
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