The Norwegian trumpeter Erik Thormod Halvorsen is like a denial of what we have defined for many seasons as "scandinavian sound of jazz". He is far from the sounds of the fjords and secrets of ECM Records, because the Norwegian jazz veteran is a pure jazzman, an artist heavily embedded in the tradition of modern mainstream jazz, in which the swinging nature of the trumpeter and composer is probably the strongest. Erik Thormod Halvorsen is not only a veteran of the jazz movement in Scandinavia, but also a pioneer and legendary leader and musician of many jazz groups, the pillar of the famous Oslo Big Band and, above all, the artist that everyone wants to play with and who brings together the elite in his workshop Oslo Groove Company today's modern-jazz Oslo.
from Era Jazzu, Poland