Singer Live Maria Roggen is, perhaps, best known in Norway for Come Shine, a straight-ahead jazz group that reunited for a special at the 2011 Oslo International Jazz Festival, but her reach is considerably broader, something that was instantly clear upon walking into Victoria early in the afternoon for the sound checks, to find her in the midst of an incendiary improvisational workout with Stian Westerhus and Audun Kleive. Roggen collaborated with Wibutee on Newborn Thing (Jazzland, 1998), is a member of the innovative Trondheim Voices and, after an invitation to perform with guitarist in 2001 with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, ultimately went on a Norwegian tour with the influential guitarist. For this evening—in addition to a completely free improv where she demonstrated just how deeply Endresen has touched singers in Norway while, at the same time, encouraging them to assert their own voices—Roggen performed a particularly popular song from Endresen, one that Endresen herself has recorded more than once.

'The title is 'Truth,' Roggen explained during the sound check. 'It's a very nice song, but I'm more familiar with the So I Write version [the song can also be found on Endresen's third duo recording with Bugge Wesseltoft, 2002's Out Here. In There (Jazzland)], which sounds more improvised. 'I first met her as a singer as part of the audience and in a summer jazz school,' Roggen continued.

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'So I was partly terrified, but that quickly passed because she was so warm and cared so much about her students. Her efforts as an instructor have been very important for all of us. I don't really know her that well personally, except that she's a very personable person.

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She's not shy; she's very direct. Chatology Download Free. But I do now know her as a colleague, as we teach together; she's a professor at the music academy where I also teach [Oslo's Norwegian Academy of Music]. We talk a lot about anything concerning singing, which I'm obviously deeply interested in. She's an eye-opener; she's always broadening the subject, and she's got a lot of experience dealing with others.'

'Truth' was another gentle moment in the first set, despite Westerhus' more aggressive stance; but if their afternoon sound check set a high bar for their improvising trio with Kleive, they somehow managed to raise it even higher during the evening's performance with a spontaneous composition that just about blew the roof off of the 300- plus-seat club. Singer Solveig Slettahjell's career has, to a large extent, been predicated on the idea of slow music, whether it's taking standards and original material down a couple of dozen clicks in her Slow Motion Quintet and Orchestra, last heard on (Universal Norway, 2010), or looking at more contemporary cover material in duo with Slow Motion keyboardist Morten Qvenild (also of the popular trio ), on the more recent (Universal Norway, 2012). Her exposure to Endresen came at a young and formative age.

'I think that must have been the Pigs and Poetry album,' Slettahjell explained. 'I was in college, doing music studies, and was actually introduced to jazz through those records. I was astonished, but I didn't meet her until she was my teacher at the academy. In those years that I was studying, she was working with Bugge [Wesseltoft] in their duo, and she was tremendously important to me during those years. 'For me, the most significant thing about Sidsel is her truthfulness and her sense of genuineness,' Slettahjell continued. 'She does things in a very musical way when she is working; even though she's quite intellectual, she's still very practical musically, and that combination is a rare thing.'