Jan Gunnar Hoff Fly North!

Jan Gunnar Hoff Fly North! Jan Gunnar Hoff Jan Gunnar Hoff 1 Fly North 05:56 Recorded and mixed at Rainbow Studio, Oslo 2 Living 06:54 by Jan Erik Kongshaug, October/November 2013 Fly North Fly North 3 Arise 06:23 Edited at Wisseloord Studio, Holland 4 Places 05:51 by Darcy Proper, December 2013 05:56 Recorded and mixed at Rainbow Studio, Oslo 5 Sacrifi ce 05:06 Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and 1 Fly North 06:54 by Jan Erik Kongshaug, October/November 2013 Arve Henriksen 6 Böcklin 03:48 Executive producer: Odd Gjelsnes 2 Living 06:23 Edited at Wisseloord Studio, Holland Arve Henriksen Anders Jormin 7 Spheres 04:28 Front cover photo: Petter Furuseth 3 Arise 05:51 by Darcy Proper, December 2013 Anders Jormin 8 Valse de Decémbre 04:45 This recording is made with fi nancial support from 4 Places 05:06 Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and Arve Henriksen Marilyn Mazur 9 Questions 07:39 “Fond for lyd og bilde” and 5 Sacrifi ce 03:48 Executive producer: Odd Gjelsnes 10 Gathering 05:41 “Fond for utøvende kunstnere” 6 Böcklin 04:28 Front cover photo: Petter Furuseth 7 Spheres This recording is made with fi nancial support from Cover design: www.medicineheads.no Total Time 56:36 Losen Records LOS 119-2 8 Valse de Decémbre 04:4507:39 “Fond for lyd og bilde” and

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Total Time 56:36 All compositions by Jan Gunnar Hoff Jan Gunnar Hoff piano, keyboards www.jangunnarhoff.no Arve Henriksen trumpet, vocal Anders Jormin bass piano, keyboards Jan Gunnar Hoff Marilyn Mazur drums, percussion trumpet, vocal Arve Henriksen bass Anders Jormin drums, percussion Marilyn Mazur LOS 119-2

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Music has been a part of us all from hunter-gatherer eponymous solo piano album in 2013. The afore- to farmer, from the industrial to the sophisticated. mentioned musicians join him on Fly North! It’s eerily innate. The music on this album defi es Jan Gunnar continues to perform and record worldwide description as much as it defi nes emotion. It doesn’t enjoying collaborations with, among others, Alex Acuna, require analysis, it offers friendship, sensual reward and Maria Joao, Mike Stern and ‘home-grown’ musicians somehow, a feeling of ultimate hope. , and Nils Petter Molvær.

Fly North! is an invitation - a visa to the Scandinavian Arve Henriksen is an award-winning Norwegian school of cool, with release from rule. Come here, come trumpet player with one of the most distinctive sounds hear! Softly stated virtuosi, memorable motif, and a in contemporary music. His work includes performance sonic panorama that, prima vista, becomes a part of you. and recordings with Jon Balke (Magnetic North Orchestra), Supersilent, Misha Alperin, Dhafer Youssef, Fly North! is a refuge; an escape plan from an Ernst Reijseger, David Sylvian, the Cikada String increasingly anxious world. Fly to the higher regions of Quartet, John Paul Jones and Motorpsycho! your sensibilities, to a stress-free environment offering space and solace: room for contemplation and calm. Anders Jormin, a Swedish bass player and composer, currently teaches double bass and improvisation and This is an album to be experienced as ‘an entirety’. holds a Professorial post at the Academy of Music and There are individual tracks and there is individuality in Drama at Gothenburg University. His credit list includes the performance, but essentially, there is a oneness. work with Bobo Stenson (6 albums), Charles Lloyd (4 It is the sweetest of suites. albums), Tomasz Sta`nko (3 albums), Elvin Jones, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Paul Motian and This is a gentle giant of an album, Nordic nuance Kenny Wheeler. lovingly crafted to soothe your soul. So fl y north, free from convention, no passport control, no baggage. Marilyn Mazur was born in New York and moved to And if you’re already ‘north’ then you’re at home! Denmark at the age of six. Predominantly renowned as a drummer and percussionist, Marilyn also plays Jan Gunnar Hoff is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, piano and is a vocalist, dancer and bandleader. She arranger, professor and prize winner. He performed has worked with, amongst others, Miles Davis, Wayne with Arve Henriksen (trumpet, effects, vocals), Anders Shorter, Gil Evans, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Jormin (acoustic bass) and Marilyn Mazur (drums, Palle Mikkelborg and Jan Garbarek. percussion) at the Bodø Jazz Open 2012. This was a commissioned work, Living, which resulted in an

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