Nils Petter Molvær Presents Nordic Jazz at Bergson

Few figures in European jazz have charted such a distinctive course over the past three decades as the Norwegian trumpeter and composer Nils Petter Molvær: As one of the defining voices of the Nordic jazz wave of the late 1990s, his work transcends genre boundaries and draws on ambient, electronica, dub, post-rock, and traditional jazz improvisation to create a sound that is at once natural, raw, and digitally distorted.

In live performances, he has become known for haunting, often cinematic shows in which sound design plays just as crucial a role as improvisation. With his sound—which blends melancholic trumpet tones with dynamic electronic soundscapes—Molvær has achieved heavyweight status, paving the way for the jazz genre to move forward into a new era. Through his fearlessness in exploring new sounds and emotions, Molvær demonstrates once again that jazz not only has a future, but one that is both bright and exciting.

Nils Petter Molvaer: Trumpet, Electronics
Jo Berger Myhre: guitar, bass
Erland Dahlen: Drums