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Snik: Metasediment Rock
by Glenn Astarita
Snik is a Norwegian quartet with a spirited approach as the respective musicians have been quite active performing with conventional and avant-garde European and USA-based jazz artists. Trombonist Kristoffer Kompen and double bassist Ole Morten Vagan's compositions present a kaleidoscopic mix of popping post-bop and free-bop style motifs often catapulted by a web of knotty unison choruses and journeys into the free realm. No doubt, these gents convey an assertive posture amid linear and surging musical plots, also ...
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by John Sharpe
The Clean Feed imprint continues to unearth new outfits from Scandinavia deserving wider appreciation. Among the latest is Snik, a predominantly Norwegian quartet which includes bassist Ole Morten Vågan, best known for his tenure in saxophonist Joshua Redman's Trio. Completing the line up are young trombonist Kristoffer Kompen, who contributes half a dozen of the eight charts, saxophonist Kristoffer Berre Alberts, familiar from the group Cortex, and Swedish drummer Erik Nylander. At times, the New York Contemporary ...
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Digital Music News
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Dmitri Kolesnik's "Five Corners" on Twinz/Challenge Records
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All About Jazz
The first release of the collaboration between Challenge Records International and Twnz Records is a fact.
On the 5th of March Dmitri Kolesnik's Five Corners will be released.
Five Corners Challenge Records CR 73256
Personnel Dmitri Kolesnik - bass Eric Alexander - tenor sax Jim Rotondi - trumpet and flugelhorn Alex Sipiagin - trumpet and flugelhorn Andrei Kondakov - piano Lenny White - drums ...
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