America’s popular culture - be it movies, popular music or jazz - has exerted on 20th century European culture a profound influence. In music critic Simon Frith’s book, Sound Effects, German film ...

With this release, I feel we are expanding the understanding of Nordic jazz, which all the time hovers between the abstract and tangible. Quite often, musicians are not fond of being labelled or ...

In The Country plays Sunday at House of Sweden and Monday at Twins Jazz. Jazz from the chilly Nordic countries often sounds different not because of the temperature, but because of education: Nordic ...

Garbarek helped the ECM label find its emerging voice 40 years ago. A new box set of early albums captures the saxophonist's forming sound —... How Jan Garbarek Came To Epitomize Nordic Jazz ...

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This is Youn Sun Nah's first interview with an American journalist. Near the end of the conversation, she apologizes. She thinks she's done poorly. But that is not the case, as you will see: She was ...

The popular Nordic Summer Jazz Series returns to Scandinavia House this June, with live performances from some of the most talented young jazz musicians, composers, and singers from the Nordic ...

The popular image of ambassadors as stuffy dignitaries in striped pants is giving way in Washington to a more upbeat vision, if the city’s Scandinavian envoys have anything to say about it. At a ...

Everyone has a place they go when they need to think, and for the crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, hero of the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, it’s his bare-bones cabin on the shores of ...

The two-day Nordic Jazz 08 festival — held on the House of Sweden‘s roof, overlooking the Potomac — kicks off on Thursday, and all this week readexpress.com will feature interviews with the artists ...

The two-day Nordic Jazz 08 festival — held on the House of Sweden’s roof, overlooking the Potomac — kicks off on Thursday, and all this week readexpress.com will feature interviews with the excellent ...

Saxophonist Jan Garbarek was a teenage protege of American composer George Russell in Norway in the 1960s and later played in Keith Jarrett's Scandinavian quartet. More recently, he has collaborated ...