1st of February this year, we played a concert at the great Amsterdam venue Bumhuis – and here´s a snapshot from the evening… Enjoy!
The tune is Eyolf´s Pickup Truck, taken from our Yonkers album.
Great review in AllAboutJazz
Today we received yet a
nother great review of our 3rd, “Yonkers”. Managing editor of the great online jazz magazine AllAboutJazz, John Kelman, sums it up:
” Together, Albatrosh makes for one of today’s most expressive and intuitive piano/sax pairings.Yonkers is another winner from a duo that may still be young in years, but whose reach and ability to work within and without the jazz tradition belies its youthful age and, instead, makes a strong case for partnership and the commitment to finding a collective voice that transcends individual strengths to create an unbreakable yet ever-pliant bond. “
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More reviews and international airplay!
After an international release i December, reviews of our latest, Yonkers, shows up around the world. From what we´ve heard, uur music is also played at major radio stations both in Europe and USA. BBC as well! We´re also planning a lot of touring in 2012, and we´re looking forward to play more concerts outside Norway.
Here´s a couple of new reviews!
“Track three, Major Little, is a good place to start, showing how neatly the pair have melded European and American jazz influences into a fresh material. Coral Fox is possibly the loveliest – a really dreamy ebb and flow of timbral richness, with melodic hints of an American songbook classic that I am still trying to identify.”
“Der so entstehende Eindruck einer weiten Landschaft ist dabei ein glücklicher Nebeneffekt. „Yonkers“ ist das Ergebnis einer ebenso spannenden wie entspannten Studiosession, die zwei Musiker im Einklang mit sich selbst zeigt. Großartiges Ohrenkino aus Norwegen!”
ROCK A ROLLA (JAN 2012)
“The interplay between Dale on piano and Roligheten on sax is never less than perfectly intuitive, while always allowing for one or another to embark on flights of fancy. Perfect late-night jazz.”
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Concerts in The Netherlands!
From 1st to 3rd of February we´re doing a short tour in The Netherlands. We´re traveling together with the great Mathias Eick 6tet, and doing concerts at:
We´re really looking forward to play in The Netherlands again, last time was at the North Sea Jazz festival back in 2010. Our latest album, Yonkers, was just released in The Netherlands, so we will for sure bring lots of CDs!
Spread the word, and welcome to Bimhuis and Paradox!
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Review in The New York Times!
Today we received a notification about a stunning review in The New York Times! We were really excited, to say the least, that our album has reached the states. The album is actually recorded in New York as well, so the cycle is closed 
To read it, click on this link, or read below.
Albatrosh
Seen from one angle, this pliable young Norwegian duo could be slotted squarely in the lineage of Keith Jarrett’s exalted work with Jan Garbarek in the 1970s: all the identifying traits are there, from the classical poise to the emotional ardor to the intimation of melodic caprice. But there’s more to Albatrosh — which is to say, the pianist Eyolf Dale and the saxophonist André Roligheten — than any sort of pigeonholing could allow. “Yonkers” (Rune Grammofon), the duo’s third album, is an outright joyride, full of sprightly intricacies (“Linedance”) and boppish contingencies (“Fifths”) and meditative spaces (“Central Park”). Mr. Roligheten has a brusque but appealing tone on tenor saxophone, and Mr. Dale extracts rich sonorities from the piano; their fundamentals are sound. But it’s their intuitive chemistry that lifts the album to another plane, raising hopes for the next go-round.
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