This summer I had a new quintet at the Kongsberg Jazz Fertival. It was Markus Stockhausen on trumpet ,Tommy Smith saxophone,Marcin Wasilewski piano and Patrice Heral on drums. A really European quintet.

It was great fun and I really hope to do more concerts with this quintet. Some  music from this concert will be posted here a little later.

At the Molde Festival I played a concert with Thomasz Stanko Quintet  featuring Craig Taiborn piano, Chris Potter sax, and Jim Black drums  .  So nice to play with Thomasz again and those fantastic musicians .

Later in the week I had my own trio with Tommy Smith and Paolo Vinaccia   with Carsten Dahl as guest .The tragedy that hit Norway july 22 had of cause a great impact on the  last days of the festival, But they decided to continue the festival with slight  changes.

I played a concert on Saturday with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra  .It was very  a special feeling to play that afternoon, but music usually can say more than any words and it felt right to do the concert.

The band sounded great .

Arild Andersen and Scottish National jazz Orchestra at Molde Jazzfestival

This is a big project which will be released on ECM in a little while . ( A live recording from Glasgow  from last october )

I am soloist with the big band with a full rythm section .The music is from the ECM cataloge and include

John Abercrombie – Ralph’s Piano Waltz  [arr. Manu Pekar] ECM 1047 [1975]
Arild Andersen –    Independency IV [arr. Mike Gibbs] ECM 1631 [1996] ECM [2008]
Chick Corea –    Crystal Silence Crystal Silence [arr.Makoto Ozone] ECM 1024 [1972]
Jan Garbarek – Molde Canticle [part 1] I Took Up The Runes [arr. Tommy Smith] ECM 1419 [1990]
Dave Holland – May Dance – Gateway – [arr. Christian Jacob] ECM 1061 [1975]
Keith Jarrett –     My Song My Song [arr. Geoffrey Keezer] ECM 1115 [1977]
Trygve Seim –    Ulrikas Dans Different Rivers [arr. Trygve Seim] ECM 1744 [2000]
Kenny Wheeler – Heyoke Gnu High [arr.Florian Ross] ECM 1069 [1975]

My Song  By Keith Jarrett ,arr Geoffrey Keezer

Arild Andersen with SNJO