Arve Henriksen/Trio Mediæval – review

LSO St Luke's, LondonThe seeds of Norwegian jazz and improvising trumpeter Arve Henriksen's cross-genre collaboration with Oslo's early-music vocal group Trio Mediæval were planted 18 years ago, when Henriksen's countryman Jan Garbarek hitched post-Coltrane sax improv to medieval church music with the Hilliard vocal ensemble, and created a worldwide cult hit.Like Garbarek, Henriksen transforms the sound of a familiar jazz instrument – by softening the traditionally brazen persona of a trumpet...

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