Norwegian Grammy award winning album from Petter Wettre.

Wettre's quartet reprises their performance of his four-part "Fountain Of Youth" suite together with the 52- piece Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra live at Kongsberg jazzfestival in Norway in 2008. The majesty of Wettre's piece, like that of Coltrane's A Love Supreme, is given a royal treatment here with the deft conducting of Django Bates. The music is presented both as a CD and a DVD concert film, and equipped as the film crew were with enough cameras, the concert makes for interesting viewing. Besides the suite, it covers four additional tracks. The quartet sticks to script for the duration here, opting for lavishness over freedom.

Inside the Beehive is Audun Automat's second release and consists of 8 pieces composed by Audun Ellingsen. The pieces vary from high-energy modal jazz to contemplative soundscapes - from chaos to perfect order. The music is based on strong melodies, complex structures, virtuosic improvisations and small hints of inspiration from far and near. The album is recorded on analogue equipment to get that organic sound of the 70´s.

Dusty Groove America writes:

A double-length set from The Core -- one of the coolest combos we've heard on Moserobie in awhile! The group is a quartet -- with sax, bass, drums, piano, and Fender Rhodes -- the last of which is often played with a distorted sound that's very cool -- noisier than usual, and with a great deal of power! In a way, these keys almost come across like their use on an electric Miles Davis album -- but with a different vibe overall, given the smaller lineup, and the more focused sound of the tunes. Some tracks only acoustic piano -- but that's pretty great too -- flowing out with a spiritual jazz sound that gets a whole new sound from the tenor. Players include Jorgen Mathiesen on saxes, Erlend Slettevol on keyboards, Steinar Raknes on bass, and Espen Aalberg on drums -- and titles include "Zaire", "Blue Sky", "The Core", "7th Father", "Caveman's Blues", "The Sun Also Rises", and "Free Bird".

From the opening track, Bolero, it is clear that The Core is a no-nonsense jazz band, hell-bent on making the kind of music they not only like to play, but like to listen to. With a strong melodic base, Møster pushes his sax to the sonic limits, sustaining a loose and free statement of the melody in view, even when it is far beyond what could reasonably be called "tenor".

On Brooklyn Serenade, there is a promise of bright lights, fast cars and an iconic skyline: a promise that Slettevoll's urbane playing delivers, alongside Møster's sax, alternating between anguish and joy over the solid rhythm work of Raknes and Aalberg.

Song for Eive comes in swinging, not so much like jazz, but like a prize fighter, fast-shuffling his feet, jabbing and strutting. Møster and Slettevoll provide the melodic solos that overlay an unstoppable rhythmic engine.

Free-Bird lives up to its name, soaring and diving, swooping and sweeping, allowing itself to rise and fall on the currents that ebb and flow beneath its wings.