
Fred Grand
Contributor at Freelance
I write about jazz. Muckrack Profile: https://t.co/sJ5tqswQA7
Articles
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2 days ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Fred Grand
All four of the albums in this month’s round-up speak of the way in which the powerful forces of personality, intellect and innovation are constantly broadening and renewing the tradition. Like many of his fellow travellers at Copenhagen’s artist-led ILK Music, pianist Anders Filpsen’s interests span jazz, contemporary composition and the avant-garde.
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2 weeks ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Fred Grand
My reviews of Kjetil Husebø’s recent ambient jazz projects have spoken of the Norwegian pianist-composer’s solid grounding in classical techniques, something which his Piano Transformed project brings into even sharper focus. This double-album is the third volume in the series, following Piano Transformed (2017) and Live At Nasjonal Jazzscene (2020).
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1 month ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Fred Grand
In recent times I’ve written extensively on the new Scandinavian ambient-jazz, a free-floating music which for the most part incorporates electronics and signal processing into an established vocabulary. Brussels-based electro-jazzers ECHT! take a rather different approach, fusing instrumental jazz with dominant hip-hop beats.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Fred Grand
American saxophonist, composer and educator Benjamin Boone is a virtuoso performer equally at home in the worlds of jazz and contemporary classical music. A series of recordings with leading poets, including the late Philip Levine, revealed a keen interest in social justice, while extended overseas trips to Moldova (2015), Ghana (2017-18) and Ireland (2022-23) as a Fulbright Scholar have allowed him to immerse himself in local cultures.
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Feb 1, 2025 |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Fred Grand
Bergen-based saxophonist and composer Inge Weatherhead Breistein first came to my attention through his collaborations with Jazzland label-mate John Derek Bishop (aka Tortusa), their 2022 album Ro revealing a lyrical player with a penchant for long melodic lines and circular breathing. It turns out that he’s also a noted producer of electronic and ambient music, and this EP-length collection draws together the various strands of his musical persona.
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