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THE SMALL Norwegian city of Tønsberg, 100km south-west of Oslo, isn’t somewhere you necessarily think of when you think of grand centres of jazz. New Orleans, yep, New York City?…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Pyramid’: graceful, off-world jazz suites remind us how 2020 should be

July 31, 2020
Chris Sawle

JAZZ is back in a big way on these shores, with The Comet is Coming, BCUK, Nubia Garcia all absolutely tearing it up with triumphant, high-profile shows – at least…

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TRACK: Jaga Jazzist’s “Spiral Era” remix is heading for other galaxies

June 29, 2020
Chris Sawle

GRADUALLY and cultishly, Norwegian octet Jaga Jazzist have been building probably the most interesting and wide-ranging catalogue in the modern jazz sphere; wholly unafraid of leaping genre fences, taking and…

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SEE: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Tomita’: jazz collective quest towards the ‘Pyramid’

ALBUM REVIEW: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Pyramid’: graceful, off-world jazz suites remind us how 2020 should be

TRACK: Jaga Jazzist’s “Spiral Era” remix is heading for other galaxies