Murray / Håker Flaten / Nilssen-Love

This is an exceptional meeting of David Murray with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love, who played together for twenty years in The Thing and have become known as Norway’s heaviest rhythm-section. In 2019 they toured Europe twice, using older and brand new compositions by Murray, and also artists like Yusef Lateef, Butch Morris and even Aretha Franklin, as starting points of ferocious improvisations. Now they will perform new material, written by all three musicians
Hearing the two Norwegians in a more or less straight jazz setting like this, is rare, and wonderful. They forge ahead like a fully tuned and prepped racing car engine, out on the sharpest runway circuit, with a swing technique and control of pitch and speed that is out of this world. (…) It feels so good to once again hear the David Murray we fell for, around forty years ago. The raw, hard-hitting style of playing, where you never doubt its foundation: in the blues. A sound that breathes the raw music from New York we once came to love so deeply.  (Johan Hauknes, Salt Peanuts)
Watch them at Bimhuis Amsterdam https://youtu.be/zvk0MZgafPU