"Utterly fabulous return from the brilliant Norwegian instrumental nonet.“ (Time Outabout the latest single of Jaga Jazzist)"Dazzling comeback after five years away for the norwegian nonet" (Moj...

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"Utterly fabulous return from the brilliant Norwegian instrumental nonet.“ (Time Outabout the latest single of Jaga Jazzist)
"Dazzling comeback after five years away for the norwegian nonet" (Mojo, 4/5)
"... brilliant piece of intstrumental songwriting that show Jaga Jazzaist to be at the top of their game" (Clash Mag, 8/10)

The return of our favourite Norwegian nonet! Yes indeed, after 5 previous AB visits, Jaga Jazzist is really and truely back once again. After diving into AB-history we have learned that it was from 2005 ago that this band shone on our stage. Earlier this year we saw them perform at the Norwegian Øya Festival in Oslo and we wrote: "We had actually forgotten how good this band really was. Still just as exciting and inventive.". You can hear it right away on their new single ‘One Armed Bandit’, which is also the title of the new album to be released in early 2010 via Ninja Tune. ‘One Armed Bandit’ was mixed in Chicago earlier this year by none less than John McEntire (Tortoise). Welcome back to AB Jaga Jazzist!

Line up:
Mathias Eick – Trumpet, upright bass, keyboards + vibraphone
Stian Westerhus – Guitars + effects
Even Ormestad – Bass + keyboards
Andreas Mjøs – Vibraphone, guitars, drums + electronics
Line Horntveth – Tuba + percussion
Martin Horntveth – Drums + drum-machines
Lars Horntveth – Tenor sax, bass-clarinet, guitars + keyboards
Øystein Moen – Keyboards
Erik Johannessen - Trombone + percussion

7:45 pm FLYING LOTUS
"I've been really feeling this Jaga Jazzist stuff. I've been doing a remix for them as well, but it'd be nice to actually work on a track together." (Flying Lotus' answer to the question from Pitchfork Media regarding who he'd still like to work with)

And who are we to hold back Flying Lotus (or rather: FlyLo to his friends)? Jaga Jazzist and Flying Lotus happened to be touring at the same time and so it was logical for the AB to bring them together... So here you go. Flying Lotus is the alter-ego of Californian Steven Ellison, hip-hop producer, DJ and laptop-musician. He grew up in a musical family as the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane and on his Warp-debut 'Los Angeles’ he fuses juicy beats with soaring, analogue synths and ‘distant’ voices. A style that situates itself somewhere between jazz, electronica and hip-hop. Or rather: somewhere between Madlib, J Dilla or Prefuse 73. He also runs his own label Brainfeeder (with the likes of Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus,...), recorded a few tracks for Hyperdub (the dubstep label par excellence) and has worked with the likes of José James on his latest album and also on 'A Sufi And A Killer' from strange guy Gonjasufi, our tip for 2010. FlyLo's new album 'Cosmogramma' will be released in April and, as a result of the encounter with Jaga Jazzist on this day, another collaboration project at the end of 2010 will undoubtedly follow...