New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Eivind Aarset – fantastic guitarist and composer, with a great new album Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey… We talk about Eivind’s beginnings and influences, being a bandleader, playing with Nils Petter Molvaer, Andy Sheppard, Dhafer Youssef and others, the European jazz scene, his improvisational and compositional approaches, etc…
A selection of the incredible albums that Eivind did as a leader:
1998 – Electronique Noire (with Nils Petter Molvaer, Vidar Johansen, Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Bugge Wesseltoft, Bjorn Kjellemyr, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Jonny Sjo, Kim Ofstad, Anders Engen)
2001 – Light Extracts (with Hans Ulrik, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Furset, Wetle Holte, Marius Reksjo)
2004 – Connected (with Dhafer Youssef, Hans Ulrik, Jan Bang, Wetle Holte, Marius Reksjo, Rune Arnesen, Anders Engen)
2007 – Sonic Codex (with Hans Ulrik, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte, Marius Reksjo, Anders Engen)
2012 – Dream Logic (with Jan Bang, Audun Kleive)
2015 – I.E. (with Horn Section From The Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Helge Sunde, Jan Galega Bronnimann, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte, Michele Rabbia)
2021 – Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey (with Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Wetle Holte, Audun Erlienm Erland Dahlen)
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