Villa Records
 

Joycenotes (1993)
VRCD 004

Louis Stewart (guitar), Knut Risnæs (tenorsax og flute), Nils Jansen (altsax og flute), Roy Nicolaysen (trumpet og flugelhorn), Henryk Lysiak (piano), Kåre Garnes (bass), Ole-Jacob Hansen (drums), Jens-Ivar Dagestad (percussion), Knut Mikalsen (guitar)

1. Bronse ved gull (Bronze by gold)
2. Gery McDowell
3. Natteliv (Nightlife)
4. Stephen
5. W.B.Murphy
6. Molly

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This is a live recording from September 5, 1992. It was recorded in Sandvika theatre, Sandvika being a small town just outside of Oslo. The music was composed by Louis Stewart in connection with the celebration of the centennial for James Joyce’s birth in 1982. It is called ‘Joycenotes’ and consist of six music sequences, blended with the reading of passages from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. The passages are read by norwegian actor Lars Andreas Larssen.

The performance was part of the annual Big Band Festival in Sandvika in 1992. The translation of ‘Ulysses’ into norwegian by Olav Angell, had just been published by Cappelen. The composition ’Joycenotes’ was initially performed at the Guinness Jazz Festival in 1982.

Review Dagens Næringsliv june 1993
(Translated from norwegian by Villa Records)
”Jazzy James Joyce

[…] Joyces wild cascades of words found an excellent transmitter in Lars Andreas Larssen[…]. From a solistic viewpoint this release is a real feast. Nicolaysen (on both trumpet and flugelhorn) and Jansen (alto saxophone) delivers multiple and well articulated solos, however, the undisputable gravitational centre is naturally Riisnæs. His ablity to spread an original drizzle of music on his surroundings should soon be reckognized as a national treasure […]. Louis Stewart’s guitar playing is some of the most thoroughly musical to be offered on the music market, and he deserves a much larger audience than he enjoys today […]. In honesty a daring and unexpected experiment […]. “Joycenotes” offers ample playing time – more than 73 minutes, of which the Joyce-lyric is about twenty minutes […]. -KB”


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