Vossajazz

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Vossa Jazz (also known as Vossajazz ) is a three-day international jazz festival in Voss , Norway , 75 km northeast of Bergen . It takes place annually in the week before Easter . Over 5,000 concert-goers come to the small town with its 14,000 inhabitants.

history

Vossajazz was founded on December 19, 1973. Trude Storheim has been the festival director since 2007.

In 1980, in the old Voss cinema, the album Just The Way You Are was created from a live session by Rune Gustafsson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen .

Structures

The three-day festival is carried out by around 260 volunteers. In 2014 there were around 40 events, some of which took place across the small town. The biggest concerts took place in the “Vossasalen”, the slightly smaller ones in the “Festsalen” or the Pentagon Nightclub . With good planning you can attend a third of the overlapping concerts.

Vossa Jazz is not puristic, but brings folk and world music to the stage in addition to jazz combos. In addition, there is a Badnajazz for the children, Ekstremjazz (open air concert at high altitude above sea level), Eldrejazz and UNGjaJAZZja! .

The claim to be an international festival is fulfilled through a few main acts. At the 2014 festival, for example, it was Bill Frisell 's Beautiful Dreamers Trio and Jaga Jazzist , in 2011 it was Tomasz Stańko , Terje Rypdal and Dave Holland . The focus is on Scandinavian and especially Norwegian musicians.

Medeski, Martin and Wood + Nels Cline at Vossajazz 2014.

Vossa Jazz takes part in the national competition for young talent, Jazzintro , which takes place every two years . Young and not yet established combos from all over Norway are allowed to apply. A jury will select eight bands from the submitted applicants, two of which will perform at Vossa Jazz. Only one of the two gets one of the coveted appearances at the Moldejazz Festival of the same year after the decision of a jury .

A special feature is that an ordered, newly created long composition (by Norwegian composers) has been premiered here every year since 1983. It is considered prestigious in Norway. The Norwegian state broadcaster recorded and later broadcast the concert nationwide.

Commissioned compositions by the festival

Vossajazz Prize

Since 1988 the festival has honored well-known jazz musicians from Western Norway with a prize.

Vossajazz Records

Various live recordings from the festival were released on the company's own record label, Vossa Jazz Records.

Web links

Commons : Vossajazz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Profile entry Vossa Jazz on the Europe Jazz Network , accessed on January 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Vossa Jazz 2014 report , Bruce Lindsay on April 22, 2014, accessed January 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Historie Vossajazz ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vossajazz.no
  4. ^ Josef Woodard: "Bold Risk-Taking Elevates Vossa Jazz" , DownBeat , May 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ JazzTimes with a 2011 festival report by Josef Woodard .
  6. ↑ A studio recording from August 1990 was released on the album of the same name Sagn .
  7. ↑ The ECM album of the same name contains the live recording
  8. ↑ The ECM album of the same name documents the live recording
  9. ↑ The album of the same name was recorded in the studio in June 2001
  10. ↑ Rypdals Vossabrygg: Live At Vossa Jazz Festival
  11. ↑ then in Is It Art? -Studio recorded for the album of the same name
  12. ↑ recorded in 2013 and released as an album on Meantime Records
  13. ↑ Stian Carstensen's FLIPP . NRK Jazz. March 24, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  14. ^ Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon. Tingingsverket 2014 . Vossajazz. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ Live Maria Roggen: Apokaluptein - The Uncovering . Vossajazz. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ Program 2016 . Vossajazz. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  17. ^ Vossajazz Prize , Vossajazz
  18. ^ Vossa Jazz records , Vossajazz