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Anders Lønne Grønseth

Saxophonist, reed doubler (clarinet, flute) and composer born in 1979, resident in Oslo, Norway. Anders studied to a master degree in performing arts at Göteborg University (Academy of music and drama) after completing his bachelor at the Norwegian academy of music in Oslo. With roots in the jazz tradition, Anders seeks out a broad span of influences which come to display both in his playing and writing. Studies of classical composition of the 20th century, Indian classical music and Maqam tradition of the Middle-East continue to make way for explorations in playing techniques, composing and theoretical development.

Anders started his professional career with the quartet Sphinx in 2000; a collaboration with fellow students David Arthur Skinner (piano), Audun Ellingsen (bass) and Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud (drums) which lasted over a decade and produced several tours in Norway, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Finland and Japan, as well as six album releases. Allthough Sphinx is put to rest, collaborations with the band members continue. A duo with David A. Skinner was formed in 2005, with focus towards combining sonorities and ideas from contemporary classical music with the improvisational attitude of jazz. The duo has toured in Norway, France, Greece, Finland and Japan, and has produced two albums. In 2007, Mini Macro Ensemble was formed out of a similar principle, but with a larger ensemble and a stronger emphasis on Anders' compositions. After releasing «Mini Macro Ensemble» with a string quartet and two improvising soloists in 2008, the project was put on ice. It was given new life in 2011 with the gathering of eight musicians from a multiple of different musical backgrounds, yet rooted in an improvisational approach to music. Mini Macro Ensemble are releasing two albums in 2015 and 2016.

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Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse: Inner View

Read "Inner View" reviewed by Chris May


Since George Russell published his influential Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization in 1953, other jazz musicians have attempted to reforge the theoretical construct of their music--with varying degrees of success and including some egregiously posturing examples of b.s. which bring to mind Hans Christian Andersen's salutary story The Emperor's New Clothes. One twenty-first century venture which authentically hits the mark is Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur's Middle Path, his deft recalibration of microtonal Indian ...

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Anders Lønne Grønseth: Multiverse

Read "Multiverse" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Built and fully realized in its moment of fruition, Norwegian saxophonist and bass clarinetist Anders Lønne Grønseth's Multiverse lays waste to the tired notion that music from the Scandinavian hinterlands has to bear the mark of chilly emotion. The musical flow and invention heard so immediately on Multiverse is a restless wonder, resulting in rhythmic and harmonic inversions that follow their own time. This may be disorienting to some at first but further listening has it all falling ...

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Anders Lønne Grønseth: Multiverse

Read "Multiverse" reviewed by Chris May


Ever since Jan Garbarek put Norwegian jazz on the map, and especially so after the international success of his rigorously ascetic Officium (ECM) in 1994, the music has acquired a reputation for being not entirely passionless, but emotionally withdrawn. The “Scandinavian sound" which Garbarek championed was conceived in collaboration with ECM label founder Manfred Eicher as an alternative to the American jazz tradition. It eschewed emotional engagement in favour of cerebralism and was often infused with harmolodic motifs borrowed from ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Inner View

NXN Recordings
2023

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Multiverse

Pling Music
2018

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At Swing Audio

Pling Music
2012

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Harmonogram

Pling Music
2011

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Arc-en-Ciel

Pling Music
2010

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