Quotes

Musician

"Norbo himself has a strong personal piano style. He constructs his improvisations from long swirling patterns unencumbered by blues or bebop clichés and played with a force and precision that lets each note ring out." The Jazz Breakfast, Peter Bacon

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Composer

”You’re dealing with the kind of music that has a relatively undefined boundary between composition and improvisation and between jazz and classical musical idiom. Their music flowed in exciting patterns with many traversing and implicitly melodious lines. Søren Nørbo, who set the agenda with brilliant and imaginative playing, seasoning jazz creativity with romanticism and atonality, was also responsible for most of the compositions." Kjeld Frandsen, Berlingske Tidende

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Søren Nørbo, Piano

Photo: Karolina Zapolska