Nipe Nyren Kvartett Live at Kongsberg Jazzfestival 1976, by request, and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays

 

Very similar to the recently posted Missus Beastly Minden CD, recall that one back here. Of note Hakon Graf plays keys in this quartet. Nipe Nyren is a Norwegian guitarist, he has appeared here already in the Nordic Jazz Quintet.  Other than his time in this eponymous quartet, not clear how he spent his time in the 70s. Luckily for us the music is mostly relatively energetic fusion, a little bit meandering and overlong in places, there is a fugue like acoustic guitar number which is quite interesting (track 2 called Suite II), and note that Hakon Graf wrote 4 of the songs.

One of Hakon's is called 3-4-8:

I included a segment I found online which is described as Live on NRK TV from 1977 (presumably a bootleg someone recorded and uploaded?), which does last for about half an hour and it's quite impressive despite being left uncut and not divided into tracks. This is actually more enjoyable than the material released on the CD, a little surprising.