(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
The quintet trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass and drums is the classic jazz quintet. It has been a highlight with pair of horses (on trumpet and sax) such as Roy Eldridge & Chu Berry, Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown & Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis & John Coltrane and not least the 60's Miles Davis & Wayne Shorter. Each of them has been style-creating and has brought jazz forward in a at that time shocking expressiveness.
In Norway, Atle Hammer & Mikkel Flagstad were tradition bearers into the 60s, Bernt Steen & Harald Bergersen with their bop quintet in the 70s – and then the 80s Norwegian champion team, "Masqualero" with Nils Petter Molvær, Tore Brunborg, Jon Balke, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen. With clear roots in Miles Davis' 60s quintet, they absorbed elements from later free forms, ethno jazz and esoteric moods to an enchanting musical expression. Twenty years later, a new group in our part of the world has acquired a similar position – a new landmark further development of the trumpet / sax tradition called "Atomic".
explosive
The term must in this connection be understood as something more than theoretical core physics; in expressions lies the explosive energy of atomic nuclei. A famous "Atomic" record was recorded by Count Basie in the 50's in an extremely intense and powerful big band version. And it is the fantastic expressive energy discharge that is the first characteristic when we meet the 2000st century Atomic. Here there is no resting place, not a single moment without active presence. This does not mean that there is continuous spouting and running; the band has a lot of dynamism and drama in it and has a great sense of form and fascinating melodic quality.
Two Swedes are the band's front figures on trumpet and sax. Trumpeter Magnus Broo (39 years old) stayed in the USA for several years before he put his color on Stockholm's jazz life from 1990. Fredrik Ljungkvist (34) started as a guitarist and singer in pop bands, but came up with better ideas, switched to saxophone and masters most of the woodwinds, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. Broo and he met in master Fredrik Norén's nybop band, where they played for several years before they formed the group “Jazzfurniture” and then found three Norwegian idea traps and formed Atomic.
star Comp
The three Norwegians must be said to be a Norwegian star accompanist: pianist Håvard Wiik (29), bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (32) and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love (29). They have all been on the jazz line in Trondheim, were members of the Coltrane-influenced group "Element" in the latter half of the 90's before they formed the pulsating backbone of Atomic. In addition, the two have played in countless other contexts, participated together at a number of festivals and recordings – that is, musicians who know each other very well. We notice this in the way small musical ideas arise in some, are seized on the impulse of others, twisted and turned, sent back in such a social encounter that arises from brilliant improvisational musicians.
