Stripped Down - Leisurely - Thoughtful John Pål Inderberg & Bjørn Alterhaug

• 1 Oblivion 08:13
• 2 Blad på snøen 02:00
• 3 Søv/So ro godt barn 03:16
• 4 Egeli 02:15
• 5 Message from a Sad Dolphin 04:50
• 6 Sneen på Stiftsgården 04:13
• 7 Blodskriket / Trubbel 05:28
• 8 I Fall in Love Too Easily 06:16
• Total Runtime 36:31

Info for Stripped Down - Leisurely - Thoughtful

Saxophonist John Pål Inderberg (b. 1950) and bassist Bjørn Alterhaug (b. 1945) are among the most respected jazz musicians in Norway. During more than 50 years of collaboration in different combinations the idea came on making a duo-album.

About the recording in Alterhaug and Inderbergs own words: “The impulse to make a studio recording featuring only double bass and baritone saxophone came to us after many years of collaboration involving a variety of performers and settings. Our repertoire is wide-ranging and varied, but performing as a duo could, we thought, offer some challenges in relation to the adaptation and arrangement of the numbers we chose. The choice of studio was an easy matter, as our Brasilian friend – collaborator, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Celio Barros – had built a modern sound studio in Haltdalen, near Røros.”

Bjørn Alterhaug, double bass
John Pål Inderberg, baritone saxophone

John Pål Inderberg
Konitz/Inderbergis a versatile saxophonist with a natural spontaneity of expression. His playing sythethises many different styles, not least when in partnership with Norwegian and American jazz musicians - players as contrasting as Gil Evans and Lee Konitz.

Inderbergs soprano and baritone sax can be heard on a wide range of recordings and, besides his performing career, he is a professor at The department of Music NTNU.

Bjørn Alterhaug
(born 3 June 1945 in Mo i Rana, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (double bass), Music arranger and Composer

Alterhaug is one of the grand masters among European bassplayers and has been leading an international career in jazz since the late 60's. He has played and worked with a great number of international greats such as Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Chet Baker, Thorgeir Stubø, Joe Henderson, Lucky Thomson, Sheila Jordan, Vigleik Storaas, Karin Krog, John Surman, Ben Webster and Clark Terry. He continues to lead his post as a professor at the Institute of Music at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet in Trondheim, Norway and has taught on the Jazz programme there since the start in 1979.

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