Morten Halle

Although Morten Halle is better-known being a sideman when compared to a bandleader, having only documented a clutch of albums under his very own name, the alto saxophonist is a normal presence for the Western european jazz and songs scenes. Located in Oslo, Norway, Halle initial appeared for the Scandinavian jazz picture in the past due ’70s as the first choice of the group Oslo 13. Theoretically and compositionally just like Belgium’s Soft Verdict (led by Wim Mertens) or England’s the Shed Jockey (led by Andrew Poppy), Oslo 13 was an ever-shifting collective that been around mainly to interpret Halle’s very own compositions, that have been located in jazz but lent components from minimalism and other styles of 20th hundred years structure. Oslo 13’s initial discharge was 1982’s Anti-Therapy, accompanied by 1987’s Off Stability and a posthumous traditional documenting, Oslo 13 Live, in 1993. Together with Knut Vaernes and Helge Westbye, two various other individuals in the Scandinavian avant-jazz picture, Halle shaped Curling Legs Information in 1987 as a fresh outlet because of this willfully uncommercial, however, not unappealing, music. Halle released his 1st recording under his personal name, Etterlatte Sanger, on Styling Hip and legs in 1988, accompanied by two albums documented with guitarist Jon Eberson, bassist Bjorn Kjellemyr, and percussionist Finn Sletten, Halle Eberson Sletten Kjellemyr and Halle Eberson Sletten Kjellemyr 2, in 1990 and 1992. Halle held busy like a sideman through the entire ’90s, showing up on albums such as for example 1995’s Further from the Magnetic North Orchestra, an organization led by his previous Oslo 13 bandmate Jon Balke. Halle and Balke re-formed Oslo 13 beneath the somewhat modified name 1300 Oslo for some concerts in 1999 and 2000. Two of the concerts were documented and released as Reside in the North on Styling Hip and legs in 2001.