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My first album, "Uppercase", was released on Losen Records in 2015. On this recording I was fortunate to have the late Irish guitar legend Louis Stewart as a guest musician. The album was very well received, with positive reviews both nationally and internationally - not at least in the American online magazine "All About Jazz". This encouraging reception as well as my ongoing collaboration with Losen Records and its leader Odd Gjelsnes, gave me the inspiration to start a new recording project. The desire to convey lyrical jazz based on a strong melodic and thematic expression, and reaching out to a wide audience, has been our driving force and motivation from the start. From the outset of the project it was important to find fellow musicians who could create a common expression within this framework. It soon became obvious that I needed to expand the group from a quintet to a sextet. For this album I collaborated with the trombonist Øivind Westby on the arrangements of two tracks where the group is expanded with a brass quintet. I think this has been very successful and added an extra musical dimension to the album, giving it an exciting orchestral sound which complements the compositions. Social Call is the first track of the album. Gigi Gryce has written a lot of great music - a brilliant saxophonist who has been a sideman for one of my great trumpet heroes, Clifford Brown. This track gives you an opportunity to get acquainted with my new brilliant sideman - Dave Edge. Dave is British and has lived in Norway since 2005. From 1998 to 2005 he taught saxophone at LIPA, the Paul McCartney School in Liverpool. Dave is an active musician on the Oslo jazz scene, and is a regular band member of the groups Sharp 9 and The Real Thing. Stylistically, he is influenced by tenor saxophonists like Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz. Social Call is also the title of the album and suggests themes of communication and dialogue, something that is now more important than ever.

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No-nonsense, unpretensious lovely music. I found myself alone at home listening to the music wanting to clap after each solo like in the old jazzclub times.

     —Fredrik Wandrup, The Newspaper 'Dagbladet' Norway