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With Single Engine, Kornstad exposes his complicated, sincere and humorous musical personality. He most certainly has a lot to say and listening to his journey ought to be both enlightening and a lot of fun.
Budd Kopman - All About Jazz (US)
 
Solo saxophone recordings are hardly new in the jazz canon, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one like Kornstad’s Single Engine. (...) Adventurous, yet undeniably accessible, Single Engine is another rung on a ladder that Kornstad’s been climbing for the past few years.
John Kelman - All About Jazz (US)
 
Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad has been one of the central figures on the new Norwegian scene that aspires to break new vistas beyond the almost codified ECM representation of the Nordic scene (...) A Beautiful and impressive statement.
Eyal Hareuveni - AllAboutJazz (US)
 
Kornstad has conceived a singular approach to the saxophone, fully realized on this solo effort. (...) A highly inventive album. Single Engine is a definitive statement from an up and coming artist.
Cadence (US)
Italy
Il risultato nel complesso è di grande qualità e l'opera appare come una lunga suite onirica che mescola sonorità acustiche ad elementi di elettronica, radici afro-americane a echi del nord alternando esplorazione e ricerca alla melodia.
AllAboutJazz, Italian Edition (IT)
 
Click here for an Italian interview with Kornstad
Der feine skandinavische Jazz hat einen zweiten Ausnahme-Saxophonisten neben Jan Garbarek: Håkon Kornstad
Leipziger Volkszeitung (DE)
 
Hakon Kornstad, der durch seine Glanzlichter in Bugge Wesseltofts New Conceptions of Jazz" bekannte Saxophonist, setzt auf "Single Engine" ganz allein auf seine solistischen Talente.
JazzThetik (DE)
 
Dann hat man die besten Gründe, neben Trygve Seim noch einen zweiten großen Saxophonisten aus dem Norden in der Nach-Garbarek-Ära zu begrüßen (...) konzentrierte, abwechslungsreiche, überraschungspralle Soloplatte von großer Souveränität.
Sonic (DE)
 
Eine wunderschöne und ernsthafte Interpretation des Hits »Crying In the Rain« von a-ha beschließt die Platte. Diese Norweger halten eben zusammen.
spex.de (DE)
 
Er versuche, so betont er, "aus Stückchen und Schnipseln, die andere hinterlassen haben, etwas Neues und Frisches zu erschaffen."
Gelingt ihm sehr gut!
Jazzdimensions (DE)
 

«SINGLE ENGINE» läuft nie leer – eine Solo-Platte so spannend hinzubekommen, ist schon eine Kunst. (...) mit dieser ebenso wunderbaren wie gründlichen Klangerforschung seines Instruments hat sich Kornstad auf Augenhöhe zwischen die Großen des Genres gestellt.
Nordische Musik (DE)

   
(...) Kammermusikalische Introspektion mit einer Prise Gospel, irgendwo zwischen Jimmy Giuffre und Albert Ayler. Nach einer etwas längeren kreativen Durststrecke nimmt das einst so innovative Jazzland-Label endlich wieder Fahrt auf.
Stuttgarter Zeitung (DE)
   
Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Vision des in weiten Teilen in Traditionsstarre verharrenden Jazz, ist dieser Saxofonist aus
Norwegen ein großes Stück vorangeschritten.
Financial Times (DE) 4 of 5
   
Spannender und enorm vielseitiger Saxophon-Solo-Trip.
Definitives highlight.
Schallplattenmann.de (DE) 4 of 5
TA definitive artistic breakthrough
Dagbladet (NO)
 

TI can't think of any saxophone player who sounds
quite like Kornstad does
TV2 Nettavisen (NO)

   
Frail, warm, funny, melodious, challenging and entertaining.
Nordlys (NO)
   
For a decade he's been a central figure of the new
Norwegian jazz scene. «Single Engine» is his first
call to accounts, and is a strong and beautiful
listening experience
Dagsavisen (NO)
   
Kornstad as a solo artist has let his music develop
in an untied, free and natural way
Aftenposten (NO)
   
A mature solo debut
VG (NO)
   
Bergens Tidende (NO)

 

  

DUSTYGROOVE.COM
Beautiful (mostly) solo work from saxophonist Hakon Kornstad -- a set that continues the great body of music he built on the Moserobie label! Kornstad plays tenor, bass saxophone, flute, flutonette, and melodica -- always with a relatively gentle sound, one that almost reminds us of late Eric Dolphy at his most personal, introspective moments.
 
ITSATRAP.COM
"Single engine" is one of the most engaging and interesting jazz albums I've heard in quite a while (...) Vocals seem totally unnecessary as Kornstad's saxophone provides a medium, as playful as it can be mournful, through which to reminisce, to create
 
JAZZECHO.DE
(...) einer der interessantesten, innovativsten und aufregendsten Tenorsaxophonisten Europas
 

To get in touch with Kornstad:
Visit www.myspace.com/kornstad
or hakon[a]kornstad.com

Booking inquiries, Europe:
Subtone Concerts, Halle, Germany
info[a]subtone-concerts.de

All press, label and publishing related inquiries:
Jazzland Recordings
Mr. Sten Nilsen
jazzland[a]online.no — www.jazzlandrec.com