Scandinavian Jazz

It was in Europe that the Jazz had its initial boom, but this was the territory where the style migrated more strongly with the European countries secondary consumers of jazz especially after the recording of the Dixieland Band in 1917. While each country of the old world has a particular history in relation to jazz, is in the Scandinavian style is a particular theory. The so-called "Nordic Tone" is something that many tend to define as a cold wind coming from far away.

The climatic factor in this part of the continent is reflected in aesthetic metaphor in determining the result of an artistic work and I will say that it is so dark and more closed. In film, the Swede Ingmar Bergman noted that through the dramatic exploration of the characters, the plot staff was always very claustrophobic.

In the case of Jazz dark side stands the long notes and melodies coupled with the heavy bass notes, a kind of Carmina Burana jazz. The Sten Sandell trio of Sweden is a good example of this. Piano, organ, percussion led by Gush, Mats Gustafsson and Raymond Strid, the trio can synthesize this aura of grim Nordic Tone in Jazz.

The Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek is one of the musicians that explores this very tone Nordic also using elements of traditional folk Scandinavian countries. In 70 years, Garbarek joined the "Europen quartet led by Keith Jarrett in a period where the post-bop was high. Garbarek is a unique figure in Nordic Jazz. Experienced a little of each style always giving space to their interpretive freedom and musical identity. He joined other configurations, including the Triptykon, the trio revealed that the drummer Edward Vesala a big name in free jazz scene escadinava '60s.

The cold wind and dark of the Nordic countries to become widespread in a limited symbolism associated with this part of the jazz world, but then did not fail to be true since almost always this feature is present. Alexi Tuomarila and Tord Gustavsen two famous pianists today are musicians that even a generation later bring in every note they play this cultural heritage. The exceptions exist, the example of musicians Nils Petter and Eivind Aarset and even Fredrik Nordstrom Quintet that I saw play in Lisbon, but even so the tone is there.

But the fact is that "Nordic Tone" appears to be a spontaneous movement where musicians looking to be associated with their geographical compatibility matrix, as He did the jazz of New Orleans or Chicago Bluesman. What is actually a lot natural since jazz has long been globalized, and the result are the various "glocalizações" style or "glotonizações" to use a neologism.
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