Andrew D'Angelo Norsk Trio - Morthana!

Friday, November 19
The Ballard Jazz Walk: The Tractor Tavern - 11:00pm

Saturday, November 20
Andrew D'Angelo performing with The Matt Wilson Quartet
Mainstage Performance, Saturday - 7:30pm

featuring:
Andrew D’Angelo – alto sax, bass clarinet, electronics
Anders S. Hana – guitar, electronics
Morten J. Olsen – drums, percussion, electronics

- A screamer, a laugher and a saxophone

The music of D’Angelo, Olsen and Hana is highly intuitive and spontaneous yet distinctive. It puts focus on subtle sound textures and timbre shifts as well as doing the straight-ahead freejazz thingue. Spiritual vitality and New York energy merged with the vivid forces of two young searching individuals from Stavanger makes for an intense recipe. Together they explore diverse improvisational environments and corners of sound. It’s music that postulates that things must change (like your body). It’s animated!

Andrew D’Angelo is part of the downtown New York music scene and plays regularly with Jim Black and Hilmar Jensson in Tyft, and with the Matt Willson Quartet.

Morten J. Olsen is active in the improv/contemporary music scene in Amsterdam. Part of the new movement called critical newism, the N collective, and plays with Thomas Dybdahl.

Anders S. Hana is based in Stavanger where he’s involved in most of what’s happening on the creative music scene there. He used to run Sting jazz-club and received the Maijazz prize of Norway for his work during the festival. He recently recorded a record with Bugge Wesseltoft and Paal Nilssen-Love that is due to come out end of this year.

Fairytale: “After an impressive performance by Andrew D’Angelo with the Matt Willson Quartet at the Molde International Jazz Festival 2001 (Norway), romantic as it may seem, the trio hooked up at the festival jam session. Naturally, you could say, it turned out magic. The two youngsters got invited to New York and a fruitful collaboration had begun. More than 70 concerts and several recordings later, they’re still at it one hunderd prozent!

The trio has worked with Ben Street, Chris Lightcap, Clayton Thomas and Øyvind Storesund on bass, Nate Wooley and Eric Beyondo on trumpet and with MP3 (Mike Pride, Trevor Dunn, Mary Halvorsson) in Mp3 meets Andy D double-trio. Everybody agreed they had fun at venues like Tonic, Galapagos, Knitting Factory, Detour, Empty Bottle, Tou Scene, Sting and a bunch more. Morthana crystallized as an entity of itself during a tour in the Mid West fall 2002. Since then they have worked as a trio and are now ready to conquer the world…”

Their third cd will come out early november on the new norwegian label “jazzaway records”.