A rare snapshot of Oslo\u2019s late-\u201960s jazz scene, recorded at the student-run Sogn club. Ditlef Eckhoff\u2019s quintet tears through hard-bop and early freebag, with Knut Riisn\u00e6s and Christian Reim in top form.<\/p>\n
The record comes in a fold-out jacket and is limited to 350 copies, with newly written liner notes and a striking poster by Eyvind Olsen Wahlen from that time.<\/p>\n
Jazzaggression Records is back with a live recording from Oslo, Summer 1968. The Ditlef Eckhoff Quintet at Sogn Student Campus brings together Norwegian jazz talents Ditlef Eckhoff (trumpet), Knut Riisn\u00e6s (tenor sax), Christian Reim (piano), Tore Nordlie (double bass), and Svein Christiansen (drums).<\/p>\n
We\u2019re bummed that Norway never had many standout hard-bop or post-bop albums coming out in the late \u201960s. There are a few notable exceptions, but nothing compared to the output in other Nordic jazz scenes. So whenever we dig up something that makes us think, \u201cHey, this would make a great album\u201d\u2014whether it\u2019s a radio broadcast or a live tape\u2014we do it!<\/p>\n
Trapped between the books on Ditlef Eckhoff\u2019s shelf at his residence in Oslo-Holmlia, we found this tape. I looked at the lineup in awe\u2014wow, this looks promising: Norwegian tenor legend Knut Riisn\u00e6s, our long-time collaborator Christian Reim (whose funeral I sadly attended this past April), and the backbone of our beloved Erik Andresen release, Svein Christiansen on drums, along with Terje Nordlie on double bass. I opened the casing, and the plastic was still on it. Ditlef said, \u201cI got it after the gig, but I never actually played the tape\u2014I never had a reel-to-reel machine.\u201d The music exceeded all expectations. This needed to be released. Fast forward half a year, and here it is.<\/p>\n
The set opens with Ramblin\u2019, moves through I Remember Clifford, and includes a minor-key theme adapted from a Congolese composition by Franco Luambo. The gig closes with a blues number, capturing the quintet at full energy. Recorded by students, the tape has minor imperfections\u2014but that\u2019s part of the charm. This is live jazz as it happened: a snapshot of a young scene doing its thing, raw, immediate, and full of local flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59715,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[122,107],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64704","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jazz-fusion-en","7":"product_cat-new","8":"pa_formaatti-lp-en","9":"pa_kaytetty-uusi-new","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/64704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=64704"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=64704"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=64704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}