NYC!

The next couple of weeks I am staying in New York with some friends and music colleagues of mine. We are renting an apartment with a studio in the basement, so we hope to jam with some local musicians, and plan to go to lots of concerts, and soak up the jazz scene here. It will hopefully be a really fun and inspirational stay!

View from our apartment in Brooklyn

Playing at Jazzkaar tomorrow with Hanna Paulsberg Concept

Tomorrow we are flying to Estonia to play at Jazzkaar, a jazz festival in Tallinn. We are very excited about the concert, and I am also looking very much forward to seeing Kadri Voorand again, an amazing Estonian vocalist I met last year in the European Jazz Orchestra. She will be performing with a band after our set, but if we are lucky we might be able to convince her to do a little song with us:) Link to concert info on Jazzkaars web page: http://www.jazzkaar.ee/en/jazzkaar-english/item/hanna-paulsberg-concept-norway.html

Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Spring greeting to Jazzkaar 2013 from Jazzkaar Festival on Vimeo.

Playing with Come Shine ++ at Oslo Jazzfestival

This summer I will be lucky enough to play at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet with a lot of amazing musicians during Oslo Jazz Festival. The concert is a tribute to legendary Norwegian vocalist Nora Brockstedt who turned 90 this january, and this concert is Oslo Jazz Festival's way of marking the occasion. If you click the picture you can get more info about the concert, buy tickets, and read more about the program at Oslo Jazz Festival this summer.

Line up: 

Live Maria Roggen - vocals             

Erlend Skomsvoll - piano   

Tuva Syvertsen - vocals
Svante Thuresson - vocals
Jan Eggum - vocals/guitar                  
Sondre Meisfjord - bass              

Håkon Mjåset Johansen - drums              

Emilie Christensen - vocals
Hanna Paulsberg - saxophone

Copenhagen Jazz Festival

I am very happy to announce that we will play at Copenhagen Jazz Festival this summer with Hanna Paulsberg Concept. The concert will be at Jazzhouse, and we will be travelling with some other norwegian bands as well; Pelbo, Knyst and Ola Kvernberg Trio. This is part of an "exchange project" between Kongsberg Jazzfestival and Copenhagen Jazz Festival that we are very glad to be a part of. More festival dates coming soon!
Tomorrow we are playing at Urijazz, Tønsberg. Show starts at 20:00!

Video from HPC's spring tour

We have made a small video from the tour we did a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy!

Concert at Vossajazz with Marius Neset and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra tonight

Tonight I am playing in another version Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, this time with Marius Neset as the leader. He is an amazing musician and composer, and he has written some really cool music that we have only played one time live before, at Molde International Jazz Festival last summer. It is going to be very exciting and hopefully a lot of fun!

If you click the picture below you can find out more about the concert and the festival.

 
Photo: Håvard Kallestad 

This projects musicians are:
Marius Neset – soprano and tenorsaksofon
Erik Eilertsen – trumpet
Eivind Lønning – trumpet
Erik Johannessen – trombone
Daniel Herskedal – tuba
Peter Fuglsang - altsaxophone and flute
Hanna Paulsberg – tenorsaxophone
Eirik Hegdal – barytone and sopranosaxophone
Jovan Pavlovic – accordion
Espen Berg – piano
Petter Eldh – double bass
Gard Nilssen – drums
 

Recording with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Elin Rosseland

This week I am lucky to be a part of a project with Elin Rosseland and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. This project has been going on for some years now, and finally we are recording it. Elin is an amazing vocalist, and I am so proud to get to play on this project. The band consists of: Hedvig Mollestad(guitar), Vigleik Storaas(piano), Ida Marie Sørmo(flute), Erlend Skomsvoll(producer), Jo Skaansar(bass), Tomas Eidsvaag(vocal), Helge Andreas Norbakken(percussion), Trond Kopperud(drums), Karin Hammar(trombone), Shannon Mowday(bassclarinet), Elin Rosseland(vocal) and Hildegunn Øiseth(trumpet), some really great guys!