99 Minutes #10 - Cheltenham Jazz Festival focus
MIC celebrates the strong Norwegian line-up at the UK’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival with a webcast dedicated entirely to the strong cast of performers that performed at the event in late April. Joining '99 Minutes' presenter Guttorm Andreassen as co-host of the webcast is no other than BBC Radio Three's Late Junction presenter Fiona Talkington.
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In addition to a strong playlist that includes tracks from such heavyweights as Tord Gustavsen, Stian Westerhus, Nils-Petter Molvær and much more, the latest ’99 Minutes’ webcast also features the programme’s first co-host, no other than Fiona Talkington from BBC Radio Three’s popular Late Junction programme. 
Fiona Talkington
The Cheltenham Jazz Festival which was staged from 27th April – 2nd May 2011 featured performers and acts such as Susanna, Tord Gustavsen trio and Stian Westerhus. The Cheltenham Jazz Festival also followed previous success of hosting a special collaboration between musicians from Trondheim Conservatory and Birmingham Conservatoire, two of Europe’s most creative jazz institutions.
MIC’s latest ‘99 Minutes’ webcast celebrates the strong Norwegian line-up at the Cheltenham with a playlist that reads as a who’s who of young, contemporary Norwegian jazz: Food, Farmers Market, Beady Belle, Nils Petter Molvær, Stian Westerhus, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra w/ Maria Kannegaard Trio, Paal Nilssen-Love w/Ken Vandermark, Tord Gustavsen Ensemble, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Spin Marvel, Masqualero, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Eple Trio, Elephant9, Zanussi Five and Helge Lien Trio are all parts of a vital mix of improvised and arranged tracks ranging from free improv to groove-fuelled nu-jazz.
Playlist:
| #10 |  | | |
| ARTIST | TITLE | ALBUM | CD# |
| Theme song: Tøyen | India Pindia | Did you bring me on national television to tell me this too? | Blackbean and Placenta BBPTC 203 |
| Food | Nature's Recipe | Runeology 3 - Recent and forthcoming releases on rune grammofon 2007-2008 | RCDS3WIRE |
| Farmers Market | Surfin' USSR | Surfin' USSR | IPECAC Recordings IPC101 |
| Beady Belle | April Fool | Cewbeagappic | Jazzland 067154-2 |
| Nils Petter Molvær | Sabkah | Hamada | Sula Records 602527020419 |
| Stian Westerhus | Pitch Black Star Spangled | Pitch Black Star Spangled | Rune Grammofon RCD 2009 |
| Stian Westerhus | Sing with me somehow | Pitch Black Star Spangled | Rune Grammofon RCD 2009 |
| Trondheim Jazz Orchestra / Maria Kannegaard Trio | Simply | Live in Oslo | MNJ Records |
| Stian Westerhus | Thy Gospel | Pitch Black Star Spangled | Rune Grammofon RCD 2009 |
| Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark | Train hits the Station | Dual Pleasure 2 | Smalltown Supersound STS 085 |
| Tord Gustavsen Ensemble | Way In | Restored, Returned | ECM Records ECM 2107 (179 8987) |
| Tord Gustavsen Ensemble | Spiral Song | Restored, Returned | ECM Records ECM 2107 (179 8987) |
| Tord Gustavsen Ensemble | Your Crooked Heart | Restored, Returned | ECM Records ECM 2107 (179 8987) |
| Susanna and the Magical Orchestra | Recall | 3 | Rune Grammofon RCD2090 |
| Spin Marvel | Reconciled Rotation | The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James | Edition Records EDN 1020 |
| Spin Marvel | Basildon Gangster Ghost | The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James | Edition Records EDN 1020 |
| Masqualero | Wallen, Wallen! / Helsinki Song | Masqualero | Odin Records ODIN NJ 4008-2 |
| Nils Petter Molvær | Icy Altitude | Hamada | Sula Records 602527020419 |
| Arve Henriksen | Black Mountain | Strjon | Rune Grammofon RCD 2061 |
| Stian Westerhus | Discipline of Undiscipline | Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep | Rune Grammofon RCD 2100 |
| Eple Trio | House | Eple Trio Made This | NORCD 0766 |
| Elephant9 | John Tinnick | Walk the Nile | Rune Grammofon RCD 2095 |
| Zanussi Five | The Afreet | Ghost Dance | Moserobie Music Production MMP cd071 |
| Helge Lien Trio | The Axis of Free Will | Hello Troll | Ozella Music OZ 021 CD |
Listen to previous editions of ’99 Minutes’ HERE.
DJ 99, aka Guttorm Andreasen, has worked as a presenter, DJ, reporter and producer at the national Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for 16 years, from 1992 to 2008 during which he hosted a wide range of programmes ranging from popular children’s shows, cutting-edge music programmes at the youth channels as well as culture and arts programmes on national TV. From 2003 to 2006 he produced 702 editions of the multi-rhythmic daily programme Wasabi on the NRK P2 channel. Up to 200,000 people would tune in daily on the complete genre-free blend of Swedish funk, Jamaican tango, Belarusian electro, Nigerian jazz, Venezuelan rock, Danish cumbia, Norwegian and Chinese jungle techno ... and virtually every imaginable genre in between! DJ 99 has performed in a wide range of settings ranging from the Sónar Festival in Barcelona to a small bar on the edge of a Serbian village. In 2007 he was one of only three selected DJs to play at the major music industry WOMEX festival in Seville. In 2005 he reached the finals of the International World Beat DJ Competition in London.
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