Bugge & Henning. Album Last Spring. Het inluiden van het weekend, op een wel heel rustige en luisterijke manier.
With such a focus on jazz, it's easy to forget that, at the end of the day, all music is—or, at least, comes from— improvised music. Whether drawn from the ether and performed in real time or written down on manuscript, it's still drawn from the ether. Classical music has its own history in improvisation, ranging from Beethoven to Mendelssohn. Folk music, too, has its history of extemporization. So when ACT's label head, Siggi Loch, suggested that Norwegian violinist/violist Henning Kraggerud team with pianist Bugge Wesseltoft for a program steeped in the classical and folk traditions, but imbued with a more unfettered improvisational spirit, the seeds of Last Spring were sown.
