Norway´s most popular, most selling jazz trio with a brand new recording of beautiful, groovy and swinging jazz.

«Pentagon Tapes»? Stay calm! The title makes noreference to secret surveillance or lethal covert operations inside the most secretive building on the planet.
This Pentagon is the Pentagon room in the abundantly fine art-supplied Reksten Collections Building in Bergen, Norway. Blessed with nice acoustics and equipped with a Steinway Grand, the Pentagon room became the recording studio where pianist Dag Arnesen, bassist Ole Marius Sandberg and drummer Ivar Thormodsæter laid down the tracks for this album in September 2016.
For Dag Arnesen (b. 1950), «Pentagon Tapes» represents a welcome return to playing jazz within the modern, American-originated idiom that he has mastered so well ever since his breakthrough on the Norwegian jazz scene
in the mid-70s. Not that he ever completely abandoned it, but for several years, his highly successful «Norwegian Song» concept kept him very busy interpreting folk
songs and the folk-inspired music of Edvard Grieg, Geirr Tveitt and a few other composers into his own musical language. Combining a classical education with
a jazzman's heart for this music turned out very well for Arnesen and his «Norwegian Song»-book, having a big band-chapter in the writing, is not yet closed. But then neither is Arnesen's «jazz-book». The lyric/ melodic ballad-playing, the elegantly swinging up-tempo passages and the driving expressiveness in which he has excelled for almost four decades never fully left his composer's mind (or his pianist's fingers).
There is no denying that a folk-inspired melody has snuck into «Pentagon Tapes» too. «Bonden i bryllupsgarden» («The Peasant at the Wedding Farm ») is two different, linked-together arrangements/ expansions of an old folk song. The trio further makes the Elvis Presley-hit «Love Me Tender» their own. Arnesen,
never a Presley-fan, speaks highly of that melody.

Track Listing

• Morris
• Grynte
• Bonden i bryllupsgarden
• Summer Morning Mist
• Yeallow Feather
• What Is This Thing Called Love
• In Your Own Sweet Way
• Svendsen ordner alt
• Love Me Tender
• I Remember This
• Lille MÃ¥ltros

Additional Details

Label: Losen Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 59:16 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/07/17

UPC: 7090025831607