8 new names for the Kongsberg Jazz Festival
Tickets are selling out and there are only 81 days left until the festival:
today eight new names are ready for Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2019.
ULF MYRVOLD WITH XOLISWA TOM
Directly from Cape Town in South Africa comes the singer Xoliswa Tom who, together with fiddler nominee Ulf Myrvold.
Together, they will raise the roof in the backyard at Christians Kjeller during this year's festival. The last time Ulf played at Christians Kjeller during the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, an audience record was set.
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EXOTHERM
Rune Nergaard & Kristoffer Berre Alberts with a sound boom for Kongsberg!
Exoterm is a new Norwegian-American supergroup put together by Rune Nergaard. They mix thrashy, free improvisations with a dreamy, electronic soundscape. Nergaard is well-acquainted with power jazz from the areas bordering on rock, and has taken the energy with him and pushed it into a new form.
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SYLVIE COURVOISIER & MARK FELDMAN QUARTET
feat. Drew Gress and Tom Rainey
Contemporary improvised jazz by the most experimental married couple on the improv scene in New York
Organic, live and pulsating music played by two outstanding musicians, who are referred to as two giants in new music. Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman have worked together as a duo since 1996.
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HOT CLUB DE NORWAY
Anniversary year for Norway's hottest live band, Hot Club de Norvége
Hot Club de Norvège has been continuously on the road since 1979, and has a unique journey behind it. Starting as street musicians, they were responsible for the rediscovery of guitarist Django Reinhardt in Norway in the 70s. The band became pioneers during the Django music renaissance in the European gypsy camps in the 1980s and the international breakthrough in the 1990s.
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HEDGE
Last year's Spellemann's winner is ready to take on the Kongsberg Jazz Festival with a concert and jam session when he hosts Argus during this year's festival.
To Kongsberg, he brings his project consisting of three rather great musicians. Together they invite the audience to the melodic atmosphere that existed in the 1960s - catchy tracks, humorous phrases mixed with strong compositions and playful improvisations.
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THE REAL THING
The Real Thing started in 1992 and quickly became a dominant factor in Scandinavian jazz, with its hard swinging, organ-based soul jazz.
In twelve years, the band played more than 1000 concerts and sold over 50 records. The music was i.a. inspired by American greats such as Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, George Benson and Wes Montgomery. The result was an extroverted mix of swing, blues, soul, Latin and funk.
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RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS
To all blues enthusiasts, the USA's foremost blues band guests Christians Kjeller.
American Rick Estrin & The Nightcats are a four-piece electric blues band that can be defined as a real entertainment machine. Led by the fabulous frontman and Blues Award winner Rick Estrin and our own Norwegian in the crew.
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HILDE MARIE HOLSEN
We hear very well that Hilde Marie Holsen can play the trumpet as beautifully as she wants. Combined with electronic noise, her music is even more expressive.
Hilde Marie Holsen from Jølster has found her own way with trumpet and electronics at an intersection between jazz, drone and contemporary music. Through sound processing of the trumpet, Holsen creates an electronic universe, which she mixes with a melancholic tone from the trumpet. This is how Holsen creates an original soundscape, which can be experienced as warm, fragile and sharp, but also powerful and dynamic.
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