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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.

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). Cham: 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.

Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017). Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi)

Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug took hold and, in the period that followed, spread throughout Europe. This... Read More about Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe.

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
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..

Botanic Lights: Night in the Garden (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
Innes, M., & Winton, E. Botanic Lights: Night in the Garden. Performed at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. 29 October 2014 - 23 November 2014. (Unpublished)

In 2012, The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE) approached Malcom Innes to explore options to use light art installations and events to generate a new income stream for RBGE. The project began with a small feasibility study (funded by an Inter... Read More about Botanic Lights: Night in the Garden.

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
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..

Jazz Scenes and Networks in Europe: Repackaging Independent Jazz – New Strategies for Emerging Markets. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2014, July). Jazz Scenes and Networks in Europe: Repackaging Independent Jazz – New Strategies for Emerging Markets. Paper presented at KISMIF conference: Underground music scenes and DIY cultures

Recent years have witnessed significant changes to the methods by which artists connect with their fans. Where in the previous century these connections were primarily made through touring, media promotion and the physical distribution of product, th... Read More about Jazz Scenes and Networks in Europe: Repackaging Independent Jazz – New Strategies for Emerging Markets..

The promoter as cultural conduit: between jazz and a hard place. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2013, November). The promoter as cultural conduit: between jazz and a hard place. Paper presented at Jazz Talks: 1st university of Aveiro jazz conference

This paper examines the interdependencies and frictions between the creators and the promoters of jazz in the city of Edinburgh, UK. In providing a platform for the delivery of the cultural message of jazz (in all its many guises), the promoter wal... Read More about The promoter as cultural conduit: between jazz and a hard place..

Cultural identity and transnational heritage in contemporary jazz: a practice-based study of composition and collaboration (2013)
Thesis
Medbøe, H. Cultural identity and transnational heritage in contemporary jazz: a practice-based study of composition and collaboration. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6124

This study focuses on three albums of original music performed and recorded by the author as the leader of the Haftor Medbøe Group and released variously by Linn Records and Fabrikant Records between 2006 and 2010. Through the prisms of historiogr... Read More about Cultural identity and transnational heritage in contemporary jazz: a practice-based study of composition and collaboration.

Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2013, April). Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular. Paper presented at Rhythm Changes 2013

Debate over origin and authenticity aside, the musical language of jazz is today spoken and understood amongst a diversity of communities the world over. Standard repertoire, evolved formal structures, and aesthetic tenets provide a lingua franca sup... Read More about Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular..

Haftor Medbøe & Anneke Kampman - Places and Spaces (2012)
Other
Medbøe, H. (2012). Haftor Medbøe & Anneke Kampman - Places and Spaces. Edinburgh, UK

An album of nine compositions featuring Anneke Kampman (vocals), Andy Jeffcoat (synth), Richard Kass (percussion). Engineered by Michal Jankowski Produced by Graham Coe Released in September 2009

Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2012, July). Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. Paper presented at International Musicological Society

Historians and educators have traditionally presented the century long evolution of jazz in a linear, canonical fashion. Applications of this model are often limited to the music’s domestic evolution, paying scant heed to activities outside the USA.... Read More about Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style..

Cultural identity and creative autonomy in Nordic jazz. (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2011, September). Cultural identity and creative autonomy in Nordic jazz. Paper presented at Rhythm Changes: Jazz and National Identities conference 2011

Historians and educators have traditionally presented the relatively short evolution of jazz in a linear, epochal fashion. Applications of this model are often limited to the music’s domestic evolution, paying little or no heed to activities outside... Read More about Cultural identity and creative autonomy in Nordic jazz..

Haftor Medbøe Group - New:Happy (2008)
Digital Artefact
Medbøe, H. (2008). Haftor Medbøe Group - New:Happy. Edinburgh, UK

An album of eight original compositions featuring Konrad Wiszniewski (tenor saxophone), Chris Greive (trombone), Signy Jacobsdottir (percussion) and Eva Malling (bass). Recorded in Edinburgh and Copenhagen in 2007. Engineered by Dave Hook. Mix... Read More about Haftor Medbøe Group - New:Happy.

In Perpetuity (2006)
Digital Artefact
Medbøe, H. (2006). In Perpetuity. Edinburgh, UK

An album of seven original compositions featuring Sue McKenzie (soprano saxophone), Chris Greive (trombone), Signy Jacobsen (percussion) and the strings of The Edinburgh Quartet. Engineered by Dr Paul Ferguson and Dave Hook Mixed, mastered and pr... Read More about In Perpetuity.