Coming Home Come Shine

• 1 Stand by Me 06:19
• 2 The Man I Love 04:51
• 3 As Time Goes By 05:38
• 4 September Song 07:08
• 5 The Dock of the Bay 06:16
• 6 The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers 04:41
• 7 Pianosnakk 01:39
• 8 Caravan 05:16
• 9 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 04:58
• 10 My Shining Hour 03:17
• 11 If You Could See Me Know 05:39
• Total Runtime 55:42

Info for Coming Home

Come Shine is saying goodbye after more than 20 years, with two releases from a series of intimate concerts in 2017-18. The original idea for a Coming Home project with four intimate concerts arose while the quartet was recording at Hellviktangen on Nesodden outside Oslo, close to Roggen's home turf. Fully acoustic recordings with the audience present on four stages, each representing the four members of the band in their own way. Come Shine was born in a rehearsal room and the intimate, acoustic setting of these recordings draws a long line back to this starting point. Come Shine had come home!

Maria Roggen, vocals
Erlend Skomsvoll, piano
Sondre Meisfjord, bass
Håkon Mjåset Johansen, drums

Come Shine
started off as a student band intending to play American jazz standards in a somewhat traditional way, but soon began to focus on the arrangements and the musical storytelling - taking these beautiful tunes and lyrics to new places with the use of other references than the original swing jazz.

In the first years this was carried out within the quartet. However, pianist Skomsvoll was already a skilled orchestral arranger, and following the success of the first two albums, Come Shine carried out a grand project with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Skomsvoll's unique arrangements. Following this, the band would perform this material on tour in between quartet gigs, with top notch chamber and symphony orchestras around Norway.

First album "Come Shine" recorded 2000, released 2001.

Second album "Do Do That Voodoo" recorded and released 2002 (Norwegian Grammy). Third album "In Concert - With the Norwegian Radio Orchestra" recorded live at the 2003 Kongsberg Jazz Festival, and released the same year.

The band was in recess from autumn 2004 until September 2010 when we reunited to celebrate our university NTNU's 100th anniversary, together with the Trondheim Soloists. Then a few very outspread gigs followed, topped with an appearance at the Oslo Opera House in August 2011 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Norway's prime jazz journalist Terje Mosnes of Dagbladet hailed Come Shine to be a "national treasure" and demanded that we make a new beginning for the quartet.

In March 2014 Come Shine's fourth album "Red and Gold" was released in Norway, with a concert at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo. Red an Gold has received raving reviews in the Norwegian press.

This album contains no booklet.