Hi! I just came back from Vadsø/Varangerfestivalen, where I had the great honour and privilege to play with the legendary Polish trumpetplayer Tomasz Stanko and his quintet. I was substituting for the band’s regular guitarplayer, and it was so much fun! Tomasz’ compositions are really fascinating, totally open but still structured. Beautiful pieces. The interplay… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Jazz
Fly Fishing – an Improviser's Game
In interviews, we’ve often said that improvisation is one of the common denominators between fly fishing and jazz. In fly fishing as in jazz, you have to be able to adjust quickly to the ever-changing conditions and deal with unexpected challenges. A recent example: Three days ago, I went up to my cabin in the… Read more »
Picture gallery from the north
Here are some pictures from one of the recent Jazz and Fly Fishing trips. Let’s start with the introduction:
Fly Fishing in the Nuclear Zone
Håvard goes fishing in a secret area in Northern Norway known as “The Zone”. For years, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and the Norwegian government have been conducting secret weapons tests in the area, wiping out all animal life except the aquatic insects and the fish. As a consequence, the fish grow to enormous size…. Read more »
Finnish Nonsense
Blog from Eco-Rapids #3 Hellau! I´m back from Russia. Here are some interesting videos from our tour in Finland in early June. The first one was made by Fredrik, who stole my camera and made this epic masterpiece entiteled Karja while I was searching desperately for the camera, thinking I´d forgotten it somewhere along the… Read more »
News from Russia
Hello from Russia (with love)! My own Håvard Stubø Quartet has been touring in the Ukraine and Russia for some days now. It’s been great, Russia is really somehing else – big and ugly and scary and beautiful and very, very exciting, filled with incredibly friendly and open people. Hopefully we can do a tour… Read more »
Picture gallery from the tour
Blog from Eco-Rapids #2 Here are some more photos from the Finnish tour. There were taken at Eco-Rapids by our guide Antti Härkönen, who is of course a fly fisherman, but also very much into music. He sings in a heavy metal band but after meeting us he’s totally into jazz and is considering going… Read more »
Tour feelings
Blog from Eco-Rapids #1 Greetings from the JFF mini tour in Finland! We started off with a gig in Helsinki, it was nice to be together again! We also saw some of the TV documentary for the first time and I can tell you it was special. Soon a year has gone since the TV-tour… Read more »
Restless in Ransarån
Tapani and I just came back from the legendary Ransarån. Terje Storsten, a great bass player/fly fisherman came with us on the trip. The objective of our little expedition was to hunt for the ultimate Nordic trophy fish – the big arctic char. Ransarån offers excellent fishing for good-sized brown trout and arctic char, but… Read more »
A Video of Lars, Lars & Me at Smestaddammen
I was out fishing with Lars & lars again the other day, and Lars Lenth took us to his secret urban fishing spot in Oslo, known only to a few die-hard urban anglers: Smestaddammen. Maestro Nilssen made a short film out of it, and the video is out now on Lars&Lars´ blogTV now. Check it… Read more »
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