Bands

HAYDEN POWELL TRIO

Hayden Powell – trumpet
Jo Skaansar – bass
Eyolf Dale – piano

After working with several quintets and quartets the last years, Hayden Powell’s band has found it’s current form as a trio. The drum-less band gives great freedom to the musicians, who all know each other well. The result is an original and democratic trio, and a lot of creativity.The music is based on Hayden Powell’s compositions, which spring from the scandinavian jazz tradition, but also incorporate elements as contrasting as traditional jazz and minimalistic contemporary music. The trio’s first album, The Attic, was released in September 2011 and also features guest musicians Jasper van Hulten on drums, Tore Brunborg on saxophone and Erik Johannessen on trombone. It has received great reviews in the Norwegian press, such as Dagsavisen, Dagbladet and Nettavisen.

MAGIC POCKET

Hayden Powell – trumpet

Erik Johannessen – trombone
Daniel Herskedal – tuba
Erik Nylander – drums

Magic Pocket is a brass band in miniature that navigates the gray area between jazz, rock, world and contemporary music. The music is beautiful, intense, groovy, noisy and free! Magic Pocket was started in 2002 while it’s members were studying jazz at the conservatory in Trondheim, Norway. After a couple of very active years the musicians took a break to play in bands like Jaga Jazzist, Ola Kvernberg Trio, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Listen! and Kobert. They re-emerged in 2009 when they were given a scholarship to write the commissioned workKinetic Music for Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Jazz Festival 2010.

Magic Pocket released it’s debut cd, The Katabatic Wind in January 2011. It features Keyboard Wizard Morten Qvenild (Susanna and The Magical Orchestra, In The Country) and received rave reviews from the Norwegian and international press, calling it an “outstanding debut album” (Terje Mosnes, Dagbladet), and “music you can not remain indifferent to” (Tor Hammerø, Nettavisen). Peter Margasak from DownBeat even called it “one of the years most stunning debuts”. Just 6 months later, in July 2011, Magic Pocket released it’s second album, this time in collaboration with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra who has previously recorded with Chick Corea and Joshua Redman. Kinetic Music is an expantion on the idea behind Magic Pocket itself. No chord instruments, just horns, drums (3 sets!), vocals, and the kinetic sculptures of Atle Selnes Nielsen. The music was written and arranged by the members of Magic Pocket, and recorded live at the debut concert at Molde Jazz Festival in 2010. Kinetic Music received a new round of ovations, and has been ranked highly on the Norwegian music streaming site Wimp.

TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra is one of the most important and creative jazz ensembles in Norway. During the course of the last ten years, the orchestra has had a great number of exciting projects with norwegian and international jazz profiles such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Erlend Skomsvoll and Eirik Hegdal.

Hayden has taken part in many of the projects, and has even contributed as a composer to the project with Magic Pocket.

TJO and Terje Rypdal (2004)
TJO and Vigleik Storaas (2004)
TJO and Eirik Hegdal/Maria Kannegaard (2005-2007)
TJO and Geir Lysne (2005)
TJO and New York Voices / Brazz Brothers (2006)
TJO and Bendik Hofset (2006)
TJO and Erlend Skomsvoll (2007-)
TJO and Kobert (2008-)
TJO and Øyvind Brække (2009-)
TJO and Magic Pocket (2010-)