Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption
Journal Article
Medboe, H. (2023)
Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption. Jazz Research Journal, 16(2), 129-146
This article examines environmental consequences in the manufacture and dissemination of recorded jazz alongside the ecological impacts of jazz festivals as sites of fandom an...
Islay Jazz Festival
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020)
Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304
This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through...
Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019)
Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013. [Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album]
Musicians:
Haftor Medbøe: Guitar
Gunnar Halle: Trumpet
Espen Eriksen: Piano
Eva Malling: Bass
Benita Haastrup: Drums
Konrad Wiszniewski: Tenor sax on "New Happy"
Recorded li...
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019)
Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851
Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music...
Will of the People
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019)
Will of the People
Will Of The People features four furious live improvisations by Haftor Medbøe (guitar and effects), Pete Furniss (clarinet and electronics) and Tom Bancroft (drums and percuss...
Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene
Journal Article
Medbøe, H., & Moir, Z. (2017)
Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene. Jazz Research Journal, 11(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.32504
Definitions and roles of the promoter within the ecology of the music industries have over recent years become the subject of attention by academics working within the eld of...
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe
Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017)
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi
Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug...
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016)
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press
Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the m...
Medbøe/Eriksen/Halle - The Space Between
Other
Medbøe, H. (2015)
Medbøe/Eriksen/Halle - The Space Between. [Compact Disc, Digital Download and Streaming]. Norway
An album of original compositions performed by Haftor Medbøe (guitar), Espen Eriksen (piano), Gunnar Halle (trumpet)
Released on Losen Records, November 2015 with financal su...
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice
Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015)
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1
This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related are...