HEDVIG MOLLESTAD & TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Maternity Beat RUNE GRAMMOFON

FRASER LEWRY

Prolific Norwegian jazz guitar great amps up the ambition. In 2020 the London Jazz Festival replaced its normal programming with a series of pandemic-friendly livestreams. Amid the YouTube performances, the première of Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad’s Maternity Beat – filmed at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway that July – was truly something to behold. There was an actual crowd in attendance, which seemed like some sort of miracle, but there was also an amplified breadth to Mollestad’s new material, as if the enforced claustrophobia of lockdown had forced her to expand her music upwards and outwards. “Frequently exhilarating, occasionally terrifying, and ultimately rewarding.” Nothing’s quite that simple, of course. Maternity Beat – written with Mollestad’s experience as a mother in mind – began to take shape in 2019, and…

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