Talk:JazzKamikaze

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this is an award winning band from Scandinavia with apearences on many of the moust important international jazz festival scenes, like the North Sea Jazz Festival and Moldejazz. JazzKamikaze Biography on ArtPlaneta.com. Ian Patterson of the All About Jazz states in a review of the album Mission 1 (2006) that: "... Jazz Kamikaze, yet another progressive group from Scandinavia, won the Young Nordic Jazz Comets award in 2005 and wasted no time at all in recording this memorable first album..." Jazz Kamikaze: Mission 1 (2006) Review and in a review of the album Supersonic Revolutions (2010): "...Jazz Kamikaze fairly exploded onto the music scene in 2005 by winning the Young Nordic Jazz Comets. Its first album, Mission 1 (Stunt Records/Sundance Music, 2006), featured high energy hard bop-meets-rock for the new millennium, and pianist Morten Schantz's memorable tunes were peppered with searing solos from the dual spearhead of saxophonist Marius Neset and guitarist Daniel Heloy-Davidsen. The band's second album, Traveling at the Speed of Sound (Stunt Records/Sundance Music, 2007,) saw guest trumpeter Matt Schulman widen the sonic palette, but two standout tunes, "Everest" and "Until the Sun Comes," with a progressive edge that lay between Genesis and Radiohead, hinted at greater changes to come. And boy, Jazz Kamikaze have indeed rung the changes this time. Supersonic Revolutions is an apt title given that all 12 songs feature Schantz's vocals, a first for the previously instrumental band. The rip-snorting solos have largely taken a back seat to well-crafted, melodically pleasing songs which have more to do with sophisticated pop than jazz or jazz-rock—not that these labels will mean a thing to the guys in Jazz Kamikaze whose flight path is proving to be as unpredictable as it is entertaining..." Jazz Kamikaze: Supersonic Revolutions Review. Best regards Knuand (talk) 15:13, 3 September 2013 (UTC)