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Clockwork: The Contest

Read "The Contest" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Trondheim, Norway's jazz conservatory has an excellent reputation for nurturing countless original musicians and outfits. Clockwork, a Norway/Sweden quartet, was formed in that conservatory in 2009 and, after numerous tours, now has The Contest, a debut co-produced, mixed and mastered by Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar. The compositions were written by three quartet members: pianist Oscar Grönberg (a member of Norway's Friends & Neighbors and Hanna Paulsberg's Concept, appearing on their respective Øra Fonogram debuts, 2011's No Beat ...

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Clockwork: Tesseract

Read "Tesseract" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


This unique jazz vocal group came to public attention in 2004 by winning the Bay Area Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival with its arrangements of Gershwin songs. The musicians describe themselves as “a cappella with a jazz point of view," and I don't suppose this is too far off the mark. It's a throwback to the renaissance of jazz vocal groups in the 1970s and 1980s, with names like The Ritz, Rare Silk, and Singers Unlimited. Although none of these ...

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Just Released: "Clockworks" (Songlines Recordings) Featuring Patrick Zimmerli Quartet with Ethan Iverson, Chris Tordini, John Hollenbeck

Just Released: "Clockworks" (Songlines Recordings) Featuring Patrick Zimmerli Quartet with Ethan Iverson, Chris Tordini, John Hollenbeck

Source: AMT Public Relations

Completing a 25-year compositional arc, saxophonist-composer Patrick Zimmerli releases his new jazz suite Clockworks (Songlines) following the release in 2016 of his first quartet’s 1992 recording Shores Against Silence (with Kevin Hays, Larry Grenadier and Tom Rainey). Both records feature rhythmically and melodically advanced composition largely inspired by Zimmerli’s love of serial composers such as Babbitt, Carter, Stockhausen and Boulez, though still grounded in a jazz ethos. Both explore a different third stream direction in jazz that Zimmerli made his ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Contest

Recorda Records
2012

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Tesseract

Primarily A Cappella Records
2005

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