Troen-Arnesen Quartet

Trøen-Arnesen Quartet – Tread Lightly (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:05 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records

It is not uncommon in improvisational music to see the melody primarily as a point of departure for musicians’ solos. But obviously, melodies have a power of their own. Playing a melody, letting it shine in its own right, takes skills. These skills are featured on this album. The quartet, Elisabeth Lid Trøen (saxophone and flute), Dag Arnesen (piano), Ole Marius Sandberg (bass), and Sigurd Steinkopf (drums), consistently demonstrates a number of melodic strategies to highly different results. The compositions establish melodic material, often lyrical, but even more important is how the musicians seamlessly moves from melodies to improvisation and back again, insisting on the melodies to carry the output.

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