Jazz trio

ca 9 min

Jazz trio

I. On Archaic ground

II. New and inherited patterns

III. Deconstruction

The three sections are based on three different approaches to the interplay between art music and jazz. But the idea was also to put this into a larger context. I am interested in how different cultural traditions in general can change. And I think I have found three important ways: 1) one tradition can change by absorbing features from a different tradition, 2) it can change with very careful and deliberate alteration, and 3) it can be changed by more radical dissolution of the structures that defines the culture. I would like to point out that I have no real intention to change the jazz tradition as the jazztrio stands for, but instead explore these ideas in an overall sound collage-like composition.

Dedicated to: Magnus Hjorth Trio

Commissioned by: C-Y ContemporarY

First performance: Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, 2011-09-29