Frode Gjerstad

Saxophonist Frode Gjerstad may be the leading free of charge jazz musician of Norway. He began like a trumpet participant, but turned to tenor sax like a fill-in for an R&B music group, and it has trapped with the device since. Gjerstad was drawn to free of charge jazz after hearing albums by Eric Dolphy and, most influentially, Albert Ayler. Nearly ten years after his jazz saxophone origins, Gjerstad began up his very own label, Circulasione Totale. He previously difficulty finding various other music artists in Norway who have been thinking about playing, therefore his initial, cassette-only discharge was a single recording. Gjerstad ultimately began a trio called Detail with United kingdom drummer John Stevens. The trio — and Gjerstad and Stevens’ close musical romantic relationship — continuing until Stevens’ loss of life in 1994. By this time around, Gjerstad also led the Circulasione Totale Orchestra, which documented several schedules for his label. Pursuing Detail’s abrupt end, Gjerstad performed with Borah Bergman in N.Con., toured Norway with Evan Parker, and performed and documented within a duo with Peter Brotzmann. In 1997, Gjerstad was voted Norwegian Jazz Musician of the entire year, an honor which was included with a award of the tour using the music artists of his choice. The effect was a Scandinavian tour that same calendar year with two outstanding U.S. music artists: bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake. The trio would continue to record two albums in the past due ’90s — the very first on Gjerstad’s label, the next on Cadence — and tour jointly once again in 2000, this time around performing within the U.S. as well.