Jaga Jazzist

来自挪威的十人超级大乐团.
现为北欧最知名独立厂牌之一smalltown supersound的当家乐队
风格游走于nu-jazz,modern-bigband,progressive-jazz,indie electronica之间.
灵动
大气
浑然天成
by David Jeffries
Plenty of your hipper bands might vary their influences list with acts like Tortoise, Charles Mingus, and the Neptunes just to prove they are cool. With the risky, sprawling, and somehow serene Jaga Jazzist, you can actually hear it. The ten-piece, jazz-meets-electronics band from Norway came to life in 1994 when their main brain and songwriter Lars Horntveth was only 14. Two years later their debut album, Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz, appeared, and Norwegians got their first taste of the band's combination of jazz chops and electronic quirkiness. Two years after that the Magazine EP appeared, but it was 2001's A Livingroom Hush that grabbed all the attention due to rave reviews and distribution by Warner Brothers in their homeland. Coldcut's label, Ninja Tune, picked the album up for worldwide distribution in 2002 and BBC radio listeners crowned it the "Jazz Album of the Year." The remix-based Animal Chin appeared at the end of 2002 and was followed in 2003 by Stix, an album that found the band using more electronics without the help of remixers.