Et vanskelig, trist, krigersk og ytterst problematisk år er i ferd med å ebbe ut. Verden har vært i ferd med å gå av hengslene, både i Ukraina, i Gaza, i Syria, Jemen, og mange andre steder rundt på kloden. Trump er gjenvalgt, og etter 20. januar 2025, blir det full boikott av alle reiser til USA her i gården. Klimakrisen er over oss, og i Norge er Fremskrittspartiet største politiske parti akkurat nå. Kan det egentlig bli verre?
Men vi i salt peanuts* har anmeldt en rekke nydelig, provoserende, energiske og tøffe plater og konserter vi har kunnet låse oss inne i skrivestuene våre med. Noen av oss har gravd oss ned i platebunkene, som bare blir større og større, mens andre også har vært ut på jazzklubber og festivaler for å høre musikken der den skal høres – på konserter. Og her følger hvilke plater og konserter vi har satt størst pris på i 2024:
EYAL HAREUVENI
Plater / Records:
ISABELLE DUTHOIT & FRANZ HAUTZINGER – Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch)
STIAN WESTERHUS & MAJA S. K. RATKJE – All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover)
JOE MCPHEE (WITH KEN VANDERMARK)- Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words by Joe McPhee (Corbett vs Dempsey)
ALEXANDER HAWKINS / SOFIA JERNBERG – Musho (Intakt)
THE ATTIC & EVE RISSER – La Grande Crue (NoBusiness)
JOHN BUTCHER – Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax)
ØKSE – Økse (Backwoodz Studioz)
حمد [AHMED] – Giant Beauty (Fönstret[
NACKA FORUM – Peaceful Piano (Moserobie)
JOËLLE LÉANDRE / ELISABETH HARNIK / ZLATKO KAUČIČ – Live in St. Johan (Fundacja Słuchaj)
Gjenutgivelser / Archive:
DIE LIKE A DOG – fragments of music, life and death of Albert Ayler (Cien Fuegos)
PETER BRÖTZMANN / TOSHINORI KONDO / SABU TOYOZUMI – Complete Link (NoBusiness)
Konserter/Concerts:
ARASHI (Akira Sakata/John Berhling/Paal Nilssen-Love), Unlimited Music Festival, Wels, Austria
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE CIRCUS & THE EX guitars, Unlimited Music Festival, Wels, Austria
THE EX, WITH MATS GISTAFSSONH / ANNE DE BACKER / KEN VANDERMARK / METTE RASMUSSEN, Unlimited Music Festival, Wels, Austria
JOE MCPHEE / KEN VANDERMARK, Unlimited Music Festival, Wels, Austria
MICHIYO YAGI / ZEENA PARKINS, Moers Festival. Germany, May 18
JOHAN HAUKNES
Plater / Records:
PETER BRÖTZMANN / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE – Chicken Shit Bingo / Butterfly Mushroom (Trost)
THE CORE – Roots (Moserobie)
ELEPHANT9 WITH TERJE RYPDAL – catching fire (Rune Grammofon)
SIDSEL ENDRESEN / JAN BANG / ERIK HONORÉ – Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2 (Punkt Editions / Jazzland)
OLA KVERNBERG – Steamdome III (Grappa)
CHARLES LLOYD – The Sky Will be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
GARD NILSSEN ACOUSTIC UNITY – Elastic Wave (ECM)
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE/JEN VANDERMARK – Japan 2019 (Audiographic Records / PNL Records)
ERLEND SKOMSVOLL TRIO – Noshk Blues (Jazzland)
Gjenutgivelser / Archive:
ALICE COLTRANE – The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse!)
MILES DAVIS QUINTET – Miles in France 1963 & 1964 – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (Columbia)
BILL EVANS – Bill Evans in Norway – The Kongsberg Concert (Elemental Music)
KEIITH JARRETT / GARY PEACOCK / PAUL MOTIAN – The Old Country – More from the Deer Head Inn (ECM)
WEBSTER LEWIS AND THE POST-POP, SPACE ROCK, BE-BOP, GOSPEL TABERNACLE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA BABY! – Live at Club 7 (Jazzaggression Records)
CHARLES MINGUS – Mingus Takes Manhattan – the Complete Birdland Dates 1961-1962 (New Land)
WAYNE SHORTER – Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note)
TOMASZ STANKO QUARTET – September Night (ECM)
MCCOY TYNER/JOE HENDERSON – Forces of Nature – Live at Slugs’ (Blue Note)
Konserter / Concerts:
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Three days of music dedicated to Peter Brötzmann, Café Oto, London, 8-10. februar 2024
POING, ÅGE ALEKSANDERSEN OG GJESTER Åge Aleksandersens ‘Levva Livet! Riksscenen, Oslo, 6. april 2024
THE CORE Roots Nasjonal jazzscene, Oslo, 12. april 2024
PHIL MINTON / VERYAN WESTON Smeltehytta, Kongsberg jazzfestival, 4. juli 2024
MARIA KANNEGAARD TRIO Festsalen, MUNCH, Oslo jazzfestival, 17. august 2024
PUNKT-FESTIVALEN, Punkt 20 Kristiansand, 5. – 7. september 2024
LARS MOSSEFINN
Plater / Records:
EIRIK HEGDAL EKLEKTISK SAMBAND – Turnchest (Particular Recordings Collective)
NORMA WINSTONE / KIT DOWNES – Outpost of Dreams (ECM)
THOMAS STRØNEN – Relations (ECM)
MARI KVIEN BRUNVOLL & STEIN URHEIM / MOSKUS – Barefoot in Bryophyte (Hubro)
ATLE NYMO TRIO – Circle Steps (Arc Recordings)
JOHN SURMAN – Words Unspoken (ECM)
NEEDLEPOINT – Remnants of Light (bjk music)
WAKO- Evig liv, perfekt orden (ØRA fonogram)
FLUKTEN – Flukten (Odin Records)
INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN (EXIT) KNARR – Breezy (Sonic Transmissions Records)
Konserter / Concerts:
KJETIL MØSTER / GARD NILSSEN Gamlekinoen, Voss jazzklubb, 22. november
MARILYN CRISPELL Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Jazzfest Berlin, 31. oktober
MARTIN HAYES TRIO Voss idrettshall, Osafestivalen, 26. oktober
PRIYA BAINS / MIRA THIRUCHELVAM Oljedrømmer Ulvik kongressal,Poesifestivalen, 13. september
FAKEBOOKS Pozorište mladih Jazzfest Sarajevo, 8. november
ALLAN SOMMER
Plater / Records:
SATOKO FUJII QUARTET Dogs days of summer (Libra)
THE VERGE The Verge (Is It Jazz?)
MASSARIA / KNEER / HERTENSTEIN The absence of zero (Setola Di Maile)
BASIC This is Basic (No Quarter)
PAT THOMAS This is a trick step (577 Records)
DANIEL CARTER / LEO GENEVONESE / WILLIAM PARKER / FRANCISCO MELO Shine here vol. 2 (577 Records)
TOMEKA REID 3+3 (Cuneifiorm)
MARY HALVARSON Cloudward (Nonesuch)
THE NECKS Vazesh (Northern Spy)
GODSPEED YOU! Black Emperor: No title as of 13 February 2024 28/340 dead (Constellaion)
Gjenutgivelser / Archive:
GASTR DEL SOL We have dozens of titles (Drag City)
TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI Lost 1971 studio session (Membran Svart)
ALICE COLTRANE The Carnegie Hall concert (Universal)
FRANK ZAPPA Live at the Whisky a Go Go 1968 (Universal)
CATALOGUE Assassins (FOU Records)
JAN GRANLIE
Plater / Records:
IRO HAARLA OURANOS ENSEMBLE Ouranos – Under The Firmament (Willa Silva Tecords)
NILS ØKLAND BAND – Gjenskinn (Hubro Records)
ANDREA GROSSI BLEND 3 + JIM BLACK – Axes (We Insist! Records)
SUE RYNHART / HUW WARREN / DAN BODWELL- say pluto (Mrsuexue Records)
INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN (EXIT) KNARR Breezy (Sonic Transmissions Records)
PAT THOMAS – Plays The Duke (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings)
CALEB WHEELER CURTIS – The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani Records)
SARA ALDÉN There Is No Future (Prophone)
LUÍS VICENTE TRIO – Come Down Here (Clean Feed)
JEPPE ZEEBERG – Six Additional Pieces of Piano Music (Self-Releases)
SULIDA – Utos (Cleen Feed)
AALY TRIO- Sustain (Silkheart)
JESSICA ACKERLEY – All Of the Colours Are Singing (AKP Recordings)
Gjenutgivelser / Archive:
LARS-GÖRAN ULANDER Öppet 02 | Två (Caprice)
JONI MITCHELL – Archives – Volume 4 – The Asylum Years (1976 – 1980) (Rhino)
ARTHUR BLYTHE – Live From Studio Rivbea, July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness)
KAREN BORCA TRIO, QUARTET & QUINTET – Good News Blues – Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (NoBusiness)
Konserter/Concerts:
ANDREAS RØYSUM ENSEMBLE, Maijazz, Stavanger, 4. mai
ALBERTO BRAIDA & GIANCARLO NINO LOCATELLI, We Insist!-festival, Milano, 18. mai
KJETIL MØSTER / GARD NILSSEN, Gamlekinoen, Voss jazzklubb, 22. november
KARIN NAKAGAWA / ERLEND APNESETH, Førdefestivalen, 4. juli
MARTHE LEA BAND, Moldejazz, 19. juli
