时间：2009年11月5日 星期四 晚上9点
地点：德莉浓摩卡咖啡馆 （珠江新城华利路34号）
票价：80元
订票热线：38383325
（因座位较少，建议提前订座）
试听：
http://thecore.no
http://myspace.com/thecorenorway
“核心”乐队
“核心”乐队是挪威最具活力的爵士乐队之一。他们打破了人们对挪威爵士乐朴实无华又像赞美诗的印象。他们的音乐根植于60年代兴起的调式爵士，结合了来自放客和摇滚的更具现代感的华彩乐段。他们的音乐既有大型爵士乐队的感觉，又带有小型“后波普”即兴组合的能量。
乐队成员于1999年在特隆海姆爵士音乐学院相识，爵士音乐家Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert
Ayler和John Coltrane成为了他们共同的灵感之源。他们随即开始创作自己的音乐，受到Coltrane的“后波普”风格和60年代末的自由四重奏场景的影响。他们的音乐相当出彩，让听众进入一种高能量之旅。他们的现场展示了乐队的能量、体力和当今爵士中经常缺乏的一些东西。
自2001年起，全球媒体开始热评“核心”乐队的专辑和现场。
“核心乐队是现今最激动人心和最强的现场爵士乐队。”《Jazzwise》杂志
“核心乐队拥有一切当今爵士乐需要的元素：能量、慷慨和无法阻挡的青春热血，仿佛每一场音乐会都像最后一次告别演出。”2004年10月现场报道
“2004年的《愿景》专辑快速而强劲。乐队仿佛被点燃，全程丝毫没有降温的意思。” JazzTimes杂志
“2006年的《蓝天》专辑带上了实验摇滚、前卫原音的特色，一片繁忙中留出了让人喘息的空间。风格强劲，技法精湛，乐队游刃于成员Aalberg创作的节奏微妙的旋律中。”
All About Jazz
“2007年专辑《印度式的核心》是一次优美的东西方会面。” All About Jazz
“贴心推荐。高能量和直率的表达让2007年专辑《办公室必听》成为了一张真真正正必听专辑。” All About Jazz
“我们迄今听过的最酷的乐队之一！次中音萨克斯管吹出了新声，带人进入超俗的爵士境界。” Dusty Grooves评2008年专辑《Golonka Love》
“2009年专辑《不回头的艺术》是来自北欧的另一张出色专辑。” Jazz and Blues
**** : 《乐》杂志
Jørgen Mathisen – Saxophones 萨克斯
Erlend Slettevoll – Piano 钢琴
Steinar Raknes – Bass 贝司
Espen Aalberg – Drums 鼓
The Core
The Core is, quite simply, one of Norway’s most energetic jazz bands,
out to rehabilitate any notions of Norwegian jazz as somehow austere
and hymnal. The band’s music is rooted in acoustic modal jazz from the
60s, combined with more contemporary grooves rooted in funk and rock.
The Core’s music combines the feel of large ensemble jazz with the
energy of small post-bop improvisational groups.
The Core’s members first met in 1999 at the Jazz Academy in Trondheim
and found common inspiration in the music of Pharoah Sanders, Archie
Shepp, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane. They soon began making music of
their own influenced by Coltrane1s great post-bop and the free
quartets of the late 160s. The music is generous enough to bring the
listener into their high-energy journey; live performances showcase
the band’s energy, stamina and grit of a kind that is too often absent
from today1s jazz.
Since 2001, international media have been raving about The Core’s
performances and albums:
“Currently, The Core are the most exciting and powerful live band in
jazz” Jazzwise
"The Core has everything that jazz in 2004 should have: Energy,
generosity and an unstoppable youthfulness giving the impression that
each concert could be the last." Oct 2004 Live Review
"Vision's (2004)… tunes are all uptempo and fierce, but not in a
free-jazz way. The band is simply on fire and doesn't want to douse
the flames by cooling out on the track, which is fine by me."
JazzTimes
"Blue Sky (2006)…features a rock-edged, avant-acoustic sound that
manages, despite the busyness, to leave breath and space. Playing with
fiery finesse, the group easily navigates the rhythmic subtleties of
Aalberg’s tunes." All About Jazz
"[The Indian Core, 2007]: A beautiful meeting of East and West." All About Jazz
“Warmly recommended. the energy and flat-out commitment of The Core
makes Office Essentials [2007] a truly, well, essential album " All
About Jazz
“One of the coolest combos we've heard…in awhile!...A spriritual jazz
sound that gets a whole new sound from the tenor.” Dusty Grooves,
review of Golonka Love, 2008
“[The Art of No Return, 2009] is another example of the fine jazz that
is being made in the Scandinavian countries.” Jazz and Blues
**** : Time Out Beijing (Chinese)
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