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From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption (2023)
Journal Article
Medboe, H. (2023). Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption. Jazz Research Journal, 16(2), 129-146

This article examines environmental consequences in the manufacture and dissemination of recorded jazz alongside the ecological impacts of jazz festivals as sites of fandom and convergence. By tracing the roots and development in the models for produ... Read More about Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption.

First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age (2023)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H., & Dias, J. (in press). First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212638-19

The chapter is a reflection on the radical changes that characterize the music industry in the digital age. With reference to European jazz collectives and cooperative initiatives, the authors explore the various informal strategies jazz musicians de... Read More about First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age.

Haftor Medbøe|Konrad Wiszniewski: Poiesis (2023)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H., & Wiszniewski, K. (2023). Haftor Medbøe|Konrad Wiszniewski: Poiesis. [Compact Cassette and digital distribution]

An album of freely improvised music recorded in July 2022 and released on compact cassette and digital platforms by Subcontinental Records, Bangalore.

Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery (2022)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., Medboe, H., & Dias, J. (2022). Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery. In G. Morrow, D. Nordgård, & P. Tschmuck (Eds.), Rethinking the Music Business: Music Contexts, Rights, Data, and COVID-19 (109-127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09532-0_7

This chapter considers how four festivals across the UK – Brecon Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners in Belfast, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, and Manchester Jazz Festival – have adapted their processes and practices in order to reimagine the jazz fe... Read More about Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery.

Islay Jazz Festival (2020)
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020). Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304

This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through interviews with festival promoters, performers and audience members, along... Read More about Islay Jazz Festival.

Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 (2019)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019). Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013. [Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album]

Musicians:

Haftor Medbøe: Guitar
Gunnar Halle: Trumpet
Espen Eriksen: Piano
Eva Malling: Bass
Benita Haastrup: Drums
Konrad Wiszniewski: Tenor sax on "New Happy"

Recorded live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Captured, mixed and mastere... Read More about Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013.

Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world (2019)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019). Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851

Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music as a refreshing alternative to a corrupt and stagnant American tradition,... Read More about Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world.

Will of the People (2019)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H. (2019). Will of the People

Will Of The People features four furious live improvisations by Haftor Medbøe (guitar and effects), Pete Furniss (clarinet and electronics) and Tom Bancroft (drums and percussion). The set was recorded live at the Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh in May... Read More about Will of the People.

Medbøe | Karlzon (2019)
Other
Medboe, H. (2019). Medbøe | Karlzon. Edinburgh

Norwegian/Scottish guitarist Haftor Medbøe and Swedish pianist Jacob Karlzon join creative forces in the recording of a set of original compositions. The album is released on limited edition, hand-numbered 10” vinyl on 05/APRIL/19 and available for p... Read More about Medbøe | Karlzon.

Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene (2017)
Journal Article
Medbøe, H., & Moir, Z. (2017). Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene. Jazz Research Journal, 11(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.32504

Definitions and roles of the promoter within the ecology of the music industries have over recent years become the subject of attention by academics working within the eld of popular music studies. It has become accepted that precise de nitions are... Read More about Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene.

Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (2016)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016). Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press

Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the marketing and critical discussion of jazz from the region. While undoubtedly... Read More about Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice (2015)
Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015). Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1

This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related areas: participants’ interpretations and definitions of the term ‘composition’... Read More about Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice.

The compass of Nordic tone: jazz from Scandinavia. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medbøe, H. (2015, February). The compass of Nordic tone: jazz from Scandinavia. Paper presented at Nordic Research Network 2015

Jazz from Scandinavia has, over the past fifty years, come to represent a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form. Following the global spread of jazz through the dissemination technologies of the modern age, Scandinavian jazz music... Read More about The compass of Nordic tone: jazz from Scandinavia..

Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination. (2014)
Journal Article
Medbøe, H., & Dias, J. (2014). Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination. First Monday, 19, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i10.5553

Those that create, promote and disseminate jazz are experiencing a period of radical change. The dwindling interest from the major labels in releasing jazz has led to a mushrooming of both traditionally imagined and virtual independent jazz labels, o... Read More about Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination..

Dictated dichotomies: Locating Scandinavian jazz. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medbøe, H. (2014, September). Dictated dichotomies: Locating Scandinavian jazz. Paper presented at Rhythm Changes 2014 - Jazz Beyond Borders

Scandinavian jazz is arguably the most established appropriation of the genre outside the United States, with a uniquely defined cultural identity stretching back to the early 1970s. The region’s repurposing of an acculturated American music has resu... Read More about Dictated dichotomies: Locating Scandinavian jazz..