Arild Andersen Group m. gjest Karin Krog - Live Stream

Krog also sang at the first-ever jazz festival in Molde in 1961 – in front of a packed Revehall, and with Kjell Karlsen's orchestra. She's since visited Molde many times. At the anniversary concert, the audience will get to listen to some of what she sang in Revehallen 59 years ago.

Already on Krog's recording of Break of Day in Molde from 1969, Arild Andersen played bass, and over the years he's done nearly 50 concerts in the city. In almost 60 years, nobody has played Moldejazz more than him. Many of the concerts stand as milestones in Moldejazz history.

If anyone can be called a supergroup in Norwegian jazz, it must be the band Arild Andersen is joining this year. A virtuoso and expressive saxophonist about to lay the world at his feet, the piano jazz' greatest lyricist and a bass/drum duo that oozes sophisticated elegance, imagination and punch. Supergroups don't get any better than this. Panegyric reviews like these are for once in their rightful place:

«What a quartet! Marius Neset is already a superstar […] and Arild Andersen – the godfather of Norwegian Jazz […] is leading the band through the most beautiful ballads and the wildest hurricanes.»
– Nils Kvamsdal, Hordaland

«But tonight we are one, united around Arild Andersen's music, performed by a quartet that sets fire and flame in the music, through the music, out of the music.»
– Johan Hauknes, Salt Peanuts

This is truly an anniversary concert to look forward to. Fabulous performers serve a selection of tunes from different eras in the history of the festival and musicians, bound together by Arild Andersen's comments.

It will be a night for the books – both for people who have followed the festival since its inception and for those who have come to later.

Arild Andersen – bass, Marius Neset – saxophone, Helge Lien – piano, Håkon Mjåset Johansen – drums, Karin Krog – vocals.