Line #32 Music/JagaJazzist


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Live at Molde International Jazz Festival, 2009.]]
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4	->''"I think you can hear with many Norwegian acts that they're from Norway, especially in the jazz scene, that they have some kind of melodic, Nordic thing going on. With Jaga I try to steer away from it, but I grew up with ECM Records and all that stuff so it's in our system. And here in Norway it's really hard to get on the radio without being really nostalgic. Everything has to be kind of depressing to be popular."''
5	-->-- '''Lars Hornthveth''', in [[http://thequietus.com/articles/05956-jaga-jazzist-interview-lars-horntveth an interview]] with ''The Quietus''
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7	Jaga Jazzist is a band from Norway whose style defies categorization beyond the vague label of Nujazz. They began as a mix of big-band {{jazz}} and trip-hop (on ''Grete Stitz''), then they added drum-n-bass and other electronic influences (on ''A Livingroom Hush'' and ''The Stix''). Then they added PostRock (on ''What We Must''), then {{Progressive\|Rock}} and MathRock (on ''One-Armed Bandit'').
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9	[[folder:Discography]]
10	* ''Jævla Jazzist [[GreatestHitsAlbum Grete Stitz]]'' (1996; [[NoExportForYou exclusive to Norway]])
11	* ''Magazine'' (1998 in Norway; 2004 internationally)
12	* ''A Livingroom Hush'' (2001 in Norway; 2002 internationally)
13	** ''Airborne / Going Down EP'' (2001 in Norway)
14	* ''The Stix'' (2002 in Norway; 2003 internationally)
15	** ''Days'' 12" vinyl (2002, exclusive to Norway)
16	** ''Day EP'' (2003; rereleased in 2004 with additional live tracks)
17	** ''Animal Chin EP'' (2003)
18	** ''In the Fishtank 10'' (2003) A collaboration between "Jaga Jazzist Horns" (Lars Horntveth, Mathias Eick, and Jørgen Munkeby) and Motorpsycho.
19	* ''What We Must'' (2005)
20	* ''One-Armed Bandit'' (2010)
21	** ''Bananfleur Overalt EP'' (2010)
22	* ''Live with Britten Sinfonia'' (2013)
23	** ''[='=]94 -- '14'' (2014) A deluxe vinyl reissue of ''A Livingroom Hush''.
24	* ''Starfire'' (2015)
25	** "Oban" single (2015)
26	[[/folder]]
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28	[[folder:Roster]]
29	[[AC:Current]]
30	* Lars Horntveth: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, flute, guitar, piano, Mellotron, Roland SH-2 keyboards, programming, lap steel guitar, bass guitar, glockenspiel, tamboura, e-bow banjo, piano, programming, vocals
31	* Line Horntveth: tuba, flute, euphonium, melodica, percussion, glockenspiel, vocals
32	* Martin Horntveth: drums, synth-drums, drum machines, programming, keyboards, Typatune, bulbul tarang, marxophone, mandolin harp, spike piano, psaltery, bells, tubular bells, temple blocks, other percussion
33	* Andreas Mjøs: guitar, percussion, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, drums, Korg [=MS10=], omnichord, other keyboards and synthesizers, crotales, percussion
34	* Even Ormestad (since 1995): bass guitar, bass synthesizer, percussion, glockenspiel, keyboards
35	* Mathias Eick (since 1998): trumpet, french horn, keyboards, upright bass, salina strings, vocals
36	* Erik Johannessen (since 2005): trombone, marxophone, percussion, vocals
37	* Øystein Moen (since 2008): synthesizers, piano, organ, percussion, programming
38	* Marcus Forsgren (since 2009): guitar, synthesizer, programming, effects, vocals
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40	[[AC:Former]]
41	* Harald Frøland (1994–2007): guitar, synths, effects
42	* Ivar Christian Johansen (1994–2001): trumpet, Fender Rhodes, Hammond-102, piano, vocals
43	* Jonas Bendiksen (1994–1997): keyboards
44	* Lars Wabø (1994–2005): trombone, euphonium
45	* Mads Jansen (1994): trombone
46	* Marius Hesby (1994): trombone
47	* Thomas Viken (1994) tenor saxophone
48	* Lars Erik Myran (1994): bass
49	* Jørgen Munkeby (1995–2002): flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, harmonica, glockenspiel, keyboards
50	* Håvard Myklebust (1996): trombone
51	* Torgeir Audunson (1996–1997): trumpet
52	* Bjørn Strand (1997): tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
53	* Sjur Miljeteig (1997): trumpet
54	* Morten Qvenild (2001): synthesizer, piano, cassette tape-recorder
55	* Ketil Einarsen (2002–2005): flute, alto flute, toy saxophone, wind controller keyboards, percussion
56	* Andreas Hessen Schei (2002–2007): synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, piano, Mellotron, vocals
57	* Nils Martin Larsen (2005): keyboards
58	* Anders Hana (2005): guitar, effects
59	* Stian Westerhus (2008–2009): electric guitar, baritone guitar, 12-string guitar, harp, effects, percussion
60	[[/folder]]
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63	!!Provides examples of:
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65	* AccidentalAimingSkills: The protagonist of the "Airborne" video opens a celebratory bottle of champagne, completely unaware that a gunman is taking aim at him. The cork flies off the bottle and hits the gunman.
66	* ASCIIArt: For the Norwegian release of ''The Stix'', the back cover has the album credits formatted in the shape of a mountain range.
67	* AnimatedMusicVideo: "Animal Chin", "Day", and "Two Things".
68	* BandOfRelatives: Martin, Lars, and Line are siblings--and nearly the only members who've been with the band since the beginning.
69	* ChangedForTheVideo: The video for "All I Know Is Tonight" edits all the {{Subdued Section}}s from the middle of the track. The album version of the song runs 7:51, while the video version is just 3:35.
70	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A few early songs ("Jazzthing" and "Yo! It's Christmas" from ''Grete Stitz'', and "Seems to Me" from ''Magazine'') feature singing with actual lyrics. Subsequent albums have no lyrics at all--the only singing is scatting.
71	* EpicRocking: Many.
72	** Their longest studio song is "Big City Music" (14 minutes) and their longest official live recording is "One-Armed Bandit" from ''Live with Britten Sinfonia'' (15 minutes).
73	** Their longest track is "Out of Reach (or Switched Off)" (28 minutes, but see LeaveTheCameraRunning, below).
74	** All five of the songs on ''Starfire''. The shortest is 6:35, and the longest is 14:07.
75	* FaceOnTheCover: ''What We Must'' has a pencil portrait of one band member, and the interior pages of the liner notes have similar portraits of the rest of the band. And ''Starfire'' has inverted-color photos of everyone's heads floating in the night sky, with gold lights in place of their eyes.
76	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Nearly every track on ''A Livingroom Hush''.
77	* FlyingCar: Used in the "Animal Chin" music video.
78	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz'' is a parody of this--their ''debut'' album is a retrospective of their (non-existent) prior career.
79	* HiddenTrack: The original version of ''Magazine'' had an unlisted song at the end of "Serefin I Jungelen". On the 2004 rerelease, the song is no longer hidden at all, but listed on the back cover.
80	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The song portion of "Out of Reach (or Switched Off)" is about six minutes long. It's followed by ''22 minutes'' of what sounds like a TV show host discussing the album.
81	* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''[='=]94 -- '14'', released to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, is basically an extravagant vinyl reissue of ''A Livingroom Hush'', with a bunch of remixes and new cover art.
82	* OrderVersusChaos: The "Day" music video, at least [[AllThereInTheManual according to the director]]:
83	-->An industrious group of Jazzists maintains the universal equilibrium by means of knobs and levers. As harmony seems secured their chaotic counterparts get going.
84	* PerformanceVideo: "All I Know Is Tonight" has the band playing in a cabin in the middle of a dark forest, while a bunch of taxidermied animals watch them.
85	* RevolvingDoorBand: Just look at all those band members listed above!
86	* {{Scatting}}: "Swedenborgske Rom" features an ''a cappella'', lyricless interlude. "All I Know Is Tonight" has lyricless singing in unison with the [[EpicRiff epic horn riff]].
87	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Day" and "Another Day", which fade together, and "Another Day" ends by reprising "Day"'s main motif. In fact, at live shows JJ tends to play the songs back-to-back, with no break in between--anyone not already familiar with the studio version would think they were a single song.
88	* SongStyleShift: On ''Starfire'', JJ take advantage of the extended compositions to switch at the drop of a hat from ambient electronic music to psychedelic rock, to clubby electronic music, to jazz horns over programmed beats, and back again. The press release for the album quoted the band: "The idea was that we thought about the songs as both the original song and [[RearrangeTheSong a remix]] in one."
89	* StartMyOwn: Several alumni of Jaga Jazzist have gone on to start their own bands. The most famous example is probably Jørgen Munkeby's [[Music/ShiningNorway Shining]].
90	* StopMotion: Both the "Animal Chin" and "Day" music videos involve animated cutouts from photographs and magazines (although "Day" also used some vector graphics).
91	* SurrealMusicVideo: "Animal Chin" is so odd that the characters themselves get weirded-out by the proceedings and promptly leave.
92	* TapOnTheHead: In the "Airborne" music video, the assassin is incapacitated by a popped champagne cork.
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