Gjerstad Funk- Og Fiskarlag | ru
Frode Gjerstad is one of the few Norwegian musicians playing modern improvised music outside the 'ECM-school'. He has chosen to play with foreign musicians because there is no tradition in Norway for free improvised music.
His relationship with John Stevens which started in 1981 and lasted up until Stevens' death in 1994 was of great importance both musically as well as on a personal level. Through Stevens, he became acquainted with the playing of some of the finest British improvisers. His longstanding group with Stevens, 'Detail', started as a trio in 1981 with keyboardist Eivin One Pedersen, though Johnny Mbizo...
• Paal Nilssen-Love, drums
• Jon Rune Strøm, bass
• Frode Gjerstad, clarinets, alto sax
After two decades of trios with various international musicians, this is Frode Gjerstads first all-Norwegian trio. And it is a significant move towards a Nordic improvised sound.
In the past, he has played in trios with Hamid Drake, William Parker, John Stevens, Johnny Dyani, Kent Carter, Wilber Morris and Rashid Bakr. .
Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Leipzig (The Leipzig Radio Dance Orchestra) was an (East) German orchestra founded in 1947 as a dance orchestra of the Leipzig radio broadcaster.
In July 1948, the orchestra recorded its first six record titles for the AMIGA label in Berlin. Among them were the "Special Delivery Stomp", "Eager Beaver", "Dorsey's Boogie Woogie" and "American Patrol."
Among the founding members of the Tanzorchester des Leipziger Senders were renowned musicians such as Rolf Kühn (clarinet, saxophone), Walter Eichenberg (trumpet), Günter Oppenheimer (piano) and Fips Fleischer (drums); For several years the trumpeter Horst "Hackel" Fischer and Werner Baumgart (tenor saxophone) were members...