Vocal Jazz / Third Stream / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Jazz Related Improv/Composition • Norway
ERLEND SKOMSVOLL is known by Norwegians as an arranger/composer as much as a piano player. Throughout the years he he has developed a rhythmically and melodically very distinct style, which has made him today's hottest arranger when Norwegian pop and jazz artists go symphonic. At the Molde International Jazz Festival in July 2000, Skomsvoll arranged and conducted a successful concert of Chick Corea's music with big band "Trondheim Jazz Orchestra", featuring Chick Corea himself as soloist. Corea had given Skomsvoll a free hand with the music, and was so surprised and delighted by the result that he later went on a 2001-tour of Norway with Skomsvoll and the band. Skomsvoll managed to match his own success when he carried out a similar project with Pat Metheny in Molde the following summer. In COME SHINE Skomsvoll's piano playing is inspired by Count Basie, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans.
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