Live at Molde Jazz Egil Kapstad

• 1The Peacocks (Live)06:59
• 2Concerto for Orchestra / Remembering The Rain / In a Sentimental Mood (Live)09:10
• 3Egils blues / Basin Street Blues / Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Live)07:50
• 4Reinblom / Epilog / Epilogue (Live)05:51
• 5Preludium / Blue in Green (Live)07:34
• 6It Might As Well Be Spring (Live)08:28
• 7Round Midnight (Live)05:11
• 8Close Enough For Love (Live)06:08
• Total Runtime57:11

Info for Live at Molde Jazz

Solo concert recorded at Molde Jazz Festival in 1997. Never before released - a long lost tape found and now released for the first time!

At last - a solo-piano-release with Egil Kapstad, three years after he past away. The great Norwegian jazz pianist Egil Kapstad has left us an overwhelming collection of music, both as jazz pianist, composer and arranger, within both jazz and contemporary music.

In 1997 Kapstad did a solo-concert at Molde International Jazz Festival, a concert which has become an outstanding document withing modern jazz. He is drawing lines from classical compositions over to original jazz compositions, and he is also talking about what he's playing. This album is a unique documentation of Egil kapstad's wonderful, musical universe.

NRK recorded it, but the concert were never sent as one complete concert, and Egils wife, Hilde Hefte, has been searching for this tape ever since. Everybody thought it was lost for ever, but after 23 years they found it - thanks to Roald Vegheim at NRK.

Hilde Hefte, the owner of Ponca Jazz Records, got the lisence, cleaned the tape the best way she could together with Simen Hefte and Roald Råsberg. Hefte & Hefte listened and listened, thought about, and worked with Egil close to their hearts, thinking about how he would have wanted the sound; then Råsberg mastered it, and the result is an unique album, with liner notes by his close and dear friend - the poet Jan Erik Vold, and a cover designed by the person who always took the photos, created the cover-art, and designed the album-covers for Kapstad's productions, Alf Solbakken.

Egil Kapstad, piano

Egil Kapstad
(6 August 1940 – 13 July 2017) was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He wrote the music for more than 50 productions for theater, and also composed for film and television drama. Kapstad composed classical works for orchestra, choir, string quartet, and smaller ensembles, and was a chief executive of the association Ny Musikk. He worked as a host in television for NRK. Egil Kapstad's Trio worked as a small orchestra in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix of 1965.

Kapstad was born in Oslo, Norway. He taught jazz history and improvisation at the Musikkonservatoriet i Kristiansand and performed as a pianist on more than 60 albums. Kapstad worked with jazz musician such as Karin Krog, Chet Baker, Red Mitchell, Bjørn Johansen, Bjarne Nerem, Jon Larsen and Magni Wentzel, being also known for his longstanding collaboration with poet Jan Erik Vold.

Kapstad received numerous awards and honors. He received Norsk jazzforbund's Buddyprisen in 1977, NOPA's award for the work of the year, (Epilog) in 1984, Gammleng-prisen in the class jazz in 1985 and was awarded Spellemannprisen in the class jazz twice, for the record Cherokee at the 1989 award of Spellemannprisen and Remembrance with the Egil Kapstad Trio at the 1994 award of Spellemannprisen.

Kapstad became a government scholar in 2003.[3] He died in Kristiansand during July 2017.

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