Energisk og melodiøs frijazz på sitt beste!
Den norsk-svenske kvintetten Friends and Neighbors, som har teke namnet sitt frå ei Ornette Coleman-plate, har berre blitt betre og betre sidan oppstarten i 2008. Fjerdealbumet What’s Next? kom i 2019, og viste eit band som verkeleg har vakse saman og vorte noko større en summen av partane.
Dei har alltid vore strålande musikarar, men etter så mykje fartstid saman er det dynamikken og det fantastiske samspelet som hevar bandet til uante høgder. Dette skreiv Stuart Broomer (The New York City Jazz Record) i ei omtale av den nye plata:
The members are all strong players but good listeners too. Like friends and neighbors, their greatest strength is empathy. It’s there in the way that they’re attuned to one another’s nuances, the way that dialogues arise with the fluid naturalness and the coherent feel that develops on each piece, composition and improvisation blurring together. These are the qualities of a band playing together for a long time and that values what familiarity makes possible. It’s definitely worth hearing.
Dette er forfriskande musikk som spenner frå melodiøse balladar til hardtsvingande free-bop og kraftfulle frijazzutblåsingar, med referansar til artistar som Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, John Carter og Eric Dolphy.
Thomas Johansson – trompet
André Roligheten – tenorsaksofon/bass klarinett
Oscar Grönberg – piano
Jon Rune Strøm – kontrabass
Tollef Østvang – trommer
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English:
Energetic and melodious free jazz at it’s best! Friends & Neighbors, who took their name from a record by Ornette Coleman, has reached new heights on their fourth album «What’s next?» from 2019. This is refreshing music, spanning ballads, hard bop and everything in between, with references to artists such as Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, John Carter and Eric Dolphy.
The members are all strong players but good listeners too. Like friends and neighbors, their greatest strength is empathy. It’s there in the way that they’re attuned to one another’s nuances, the way that dialogues arise with the fluid naturalness and the coherent feel that develops on each piece, composition and improvisation blurring together. These are the qualities of a band playing together for a long time and that values what familiarity makes possible. It’s definitely worth hearing.
– Stuart Broomer, The New York City Jazz Record
