Arild Andersen
Afric Pepperbird
Recorded in Oslo in September 1970, Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year’s Day in 1971. Half a century later, it still conveys the freshness and excitement of discoveries being made. The album signalled the arrival of four Norwegian improvisers – Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen – at the fledgling ECM label. It was the start of a lifelong association with each of the musicians, whose influence was soon to reach far beyond the borders of their homeland. In exten…
Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm
Temporary Super Offer! These sessions were recorded exactly two years apart, in early November 1966 and 1968 (both were released in 1969). While they can’t be called “bookends” by any means, they do bracket a remarkable period in Don Cherry’s musical evolution, on his journey from the more strictly jazz environments, as adventurous as they were, of Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and others, to a philosophy that embraced many non-Western traditions. While these included various African forms, espe…
Tales Of Hackney
Arild Andersen (double-bass, electronics), Clive Bell (Thai mouth organ, shakuhachi, pi saw, shinobue), and Mark Wastell (percussion, shruti box). This genre defying trio release their debut offering, Tales Of Hackney. Quick to capture the energy and undeniable empathy of their celebrated live performances at Cafe OTO on September 24, 2017, the troika reconvened the following day for an intense ten-hour east London studio session. The beguiling, often meditative results see Andersen deploy his u…
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 19 (2004): thirteen pieces chosen by Arild Andersen from his ECM albums recorded 1975-1999, with Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Masqualero, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and others.
Dansere
Three early Jan Garbarek albums on 3CD: Sart (quintet with Bobo Stenson, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, recorded Oslo 1971), Witchi-Tai-To (1973) and Dansere (1975) by the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet with Palle Danielsson and Christensen. Produced by Manfred Eicher.
Green In Blue - Early Quartets
3-CD box with Arild Andersen's first three ECM albums as leader, Clouds in My Head (1975), Shimri (1977) and Green Shading into Blue (1978), with Knut Riisnæs, Jon Balke, Juhani Aaltonen, Lars Jansson and Pål Thowsen, recorded in Oslo 1975-1978.
Achirana
First album by the trio of Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano), Arild Andersen (double bass) and John Marshall (drums), Tsabropoulos's ECM debut, with nine original pieces. Recorded October 1999 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. First released in 2000 as ECM 1728.
Landloper
Arild Andersen's first solo album: double bass with loops created live through effect pedals. Recorded in concert on 18 June 2020 at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, with one piece recorded at home; mixed at Rainbow Studio in 2024.
In-House Science
Live trio album by Arild Andersen (double bass, electronics), Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), recorded by ORF at the PKS Villa Rothstein, Bad Ischl, Austria, on 29 September 2016. Six Andersen compositions. ECM 2594, 2018.
Mira
Studio album by Arild Andersen (double bass, electronics), Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone, shakuhachi) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), mostly Andersen originals plus Bacharach's Alfie, recorded December 2012 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2307, 2014.
Celebration
Live big-band album: Arild Andersen (double bass) as principal soloist with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra directed by Tommy Smith, in new arrangements of ECM-associated pieces. Recorded October 2010 at Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow.
Live At Belleville
Live album by Arild Andersen (double bass, live electronics) with Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), recorded in September 2007 at Belleville, Oslo, and the Drammen Theatre. Produced by Manfred Eicher, released by ECM in 2008.
Molde Concert
Live recording of a one-off quartet led by bassist Arild Andersen with Bill Frisell, John Taylor and Alphonse Mouzon at the Molde Jazz Festival, Norway, in August 1981. Expanded CD reissue (2000) of ECM 1236, first issued in 1982.
Triptykon
Free improvisation trio of Jan Garbarek (saxophones, flute), Arild Andersen (bass) and Edward Vesala (percussion), recorded 8 November 1972 at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. Released April 1973. CD edition.