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Radka Toneff, Steve Dobrogosz: Fairytales
by Angelo Leonardi
L'album jazz norvegese più importante della storia torna sul mercato nel quarantennale della sua pubblicazione. Il giudizio è stato espresso in un referendum del 2011 che ha coinvolto i musicisti del paese scandinavo ed è risultato in linea con le scelte del pubblico: Fairytales è tuttora il più venduto album jazz norvegese. Per molti la scelta risulterà sorprendente, riguardando nomi poco noti in Italia e non figure di rilievo come Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, {{Arild Andersen o ...
read moreRadka Toneff: Fairytales
by Gareth Thompson
Norway's best-selling jazz album ever is also a recording laced with tragedy. Only weeks after its 1982 release, singer Radka Toneff was found dead in the Bygdøy woods, near Oslo. She was aged thirty. The verdict was suicide caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. Toneff was born in 1952 and by her mid-twenties had earned acclaim with her own jazz quartet. But it was Toneff's ad hoc duets with the band's pianist Steve Dobrogosz that inspired ...
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