Incredible mix of electronic, jazz & rock. This marked the first and only time a jazz group performed on the show in its 17 year run.A great band from Norway playing Tortoise-like music with extended instrumentation.2 guitars, 2 basses, trumpet, sax, tuba, pedal steel, 2 keyboards & drums. King also released a solo record titled "Indelicate" in 2010 on the Sunnyside label where the drummer plays duets with himself on piano aided by overdubbing in the studio.He has also recorded and or performed with Dewey Redman, Jeff Beck, Boots Reilly, Dead Prez, Bill Carrothers, Anthony Cox, Atmosphere, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jef Lee Johnson, Beniot Delbec, Django Bates, Meat Beat Manifesto, Craig Taborn's Junk Magic, Tchad Blake, Tony Platt, Mason Jennings, Haley Bonar, Wendy Lewis, Chris Morissey, Ursus Minor, Peter Lang, and Craig Green among others.King has also written and performed for modern dance with the world renowned Mark Morris Dance Group and for fashion, composing and performing live for three seasons of maverick designer Isaac Mizrahi's fashion week shows at Bryant Park NYC and for film with the award winning animated shorts "Bike Ride Story" and "Bike Race" by Tom Schroeder.In March 2008 King appeared with The Bad Plus on the Late Night with Conan O'brien television show playing one of Kings compositions "Thriftstore Jewelry". Both ensembles plan on recording in 2011. All copyrights on CDs listed on this site are held by their respective.In March 2010 King formed two new ensembles to debut at a 2 night concert celebration of his work held at the renowned Walker Art Center called The Dave King Trucking Company (with Chris Speed and Brandon Wozniak on tenor saxes, Erik Fratzke on guitar and Adam Linz on bass) and Golden Valley Is Now (with Craig Taborn on keyboards and Reid Anderson on bass and electronics).
Melodic, hypnotizing, delicate and subtle.Jaga Jazzist started out in Tonsberg (a small town outside Oslo) in 1994 at which time Lars Horntveth (the main songwriter in Jaga) was only 14 years old! In 2001 they released their debut album “A Livingroom Hush” on Warner in Scandinavia to massive critical acclaim and great sales (the album sold over 15000 copies in Norway alone.). With no boundaries and an arsenal that includes trumpet, trombone, electric guitars, bass, tuba, bass clarinet,saxes, keyboards, vibraphone and a rack of electronics, Jaga Jazzist create timeless music. It has been this strong involvement with different projects, and different musical styles and sounds which is the key to the unique sound of Jaga Jazzist. Not only is this 9 piece instrumental band regarded as one of the most exciting and innovative in Norway, the members are all involved in other musical projects and have in one way or another contributed to almost every significant recording to come out of that part of the world in the last few years. Here is some background from their website:Jaga Jazzist have become something of a musical phenomenon in Norway since they started 15 years ago.
But of course Jaga's own kaleidoscopic take on rock stylings, rolling from early 90s British shoegazer guitar pop to 70s prog rock, all shot through with Jaga's own unique logic.And now this takes us to their 6th album, "One Armed Bandit", due for release in January 2010. A sound that was closer to their live sound than ever before. Put down in one take in one day, it was a breakthrough moment for the group. It was the perfect balance between (hu)man and machine, and it never lost the organic nature of a live 10 piece.After heavy touring next came their most radical "What We Must" album, the result of the band going into an isolated studio out in the Norwegian woods and recording the demo now known as the Spydeberg Session. As with their first album it was produced by Norwegian superproducer Jørgen Træen the man behind Duper Studios in Bergen (home of Røyksopp, Kings of Convenience, Sondre Lerche et.al.) but this time Jaga wanted to push their musical limits even further and really create a sound they could genuinely call “Jaga Jazzist “. Throughout 2002 the band shocked fans and critics alike with their blistering live shows and the buzz resulted in sold out dates all over Europe and the band soon came to the attention of Ninja Tune who did a license/collaboration deal with Smalltown Supersound.At the same time that their debut album was gaining more and more international success, Jaga recorded the follow up titled “The Stix”, their first for Ninja Tune.
He was enthusiastic about mixing it and in April 2009, 3 members of the band went to Soma Studio in Chicago to mix the album. Jaga quickly thought of John McEntire of Tortoise fame. In December 2008 the band went to Cabin Recorders to record the album with Jørgen Træen, a man who had been a big factor in forming Jaga´s music since A Livingroom Hush and the Stix, Unfortunately after 3 weeks Træen got tinnitus. And this Wagner meets Fela Kuti sound became a kind of theme of the album. The Wagner-Esque fanfares and arpeggios are intended to sound like slot machines. Taking influence from the afro-beat stylings of Fela Kuti but funneled through their own style.
And that's why they're special. That is why they are impossible to categorize. The band always pushing their boundaries, both personal and musical. Jaga went down there with a microphone and laptop and recorded what was to be the intro of the album.At heart of this collective is a restless soul, going in many directions at the same time, but always going forward.
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