Hayden Powell | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Hayden James Richard Powell |
Born | 25 September 1983 |
Origin | England |
Genres | Jazz |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Labels | Inner Ear, Periskop, Edition, ECM, Odin |
Website | haydenpowell |
Hayden James Richard Powell (born 25 September 1983 in England) is a jazz trumpeter and composer based in Oslo, Norway. Powell is English, but moved to Norway as a child and grew up in Molde. He has collaborated with numerous musicians including Terje Rypdal, Kenny Wheeler, Eirik Hegdal, Vigleik Storaas, Nils-Olav Johansen, Ole Morten Vågan, Eyolf Dale, and Ståle Storløkken, and released his debut solo album The Attic in 2011. [1]
Powell holds a bachelor in Performing jazz from the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2006), and completed the masters at Norges Musikkhøgskole in 2011. He started his career at 13 in the jazz band Dixi in Molde, they released four albums. [2]
Early in his career, Powell played with groups such asMagic Pocket, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Jens Carelius in addition to his own trio. Powell received jazz scholarship from "Sparebank 1" at Moldejazz (2006), "Trondheim jazzfestivals" talent award (2009), and was with the band Magic Pocket JazZtipendiat in 2009/2010. The scholarship was accompanied by a commissioned work which was documented on the album Kinetic Music with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Magic Pocket.
More recently, Powell has played and recorded with musicians and small groups such as Eyolf Dale, Espen Berg, Natacha Atlas, Solfrid Molland, Iro Haarla, og Bridges with Seamus Blake. He has also appeared with larger ensembles such as Trondheim Jazzorkester, Scheen Jazzorkester og Oslo Jazzensemble & Maria Schneider.
Hayden Powell has released four albums under his own name. His first, The Attic, was released on the Inner Ear label in 2011, and was recorded by his trio with pianist Eyolf Dale and bassist Jo Skaansar, as well as guest musicians Jasper Van Hulten (drums), Tore Brunborg (saxophone) and Erik Johannessen (trombone). The trio with Dale/Skaansar became Powell's regular band in the period that followed, and together they recorded the albums, Roots and Stems (2013), Circadian Rhythm and Blues (2015) and Six Commissions (2018). The latter album consists of six tracks specially written for the trio by various composers (including Erlend Skomsvoll, Espen Reinertsen and Per "Texas" Johansson). The album "Circadian Rhythm and Blues" consists of two parts, one with the trio, and the other where Powell plays completely solo, recorded in Tøyen Church in collaboration with producer Øyvind Røsrud Gundersen.
In addition to his performance activities, Powell has been involved in teaching, and since 2015 has been a university lecturer at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he has taught subjects including trumpet, arranging, ear training and ensemble playing.
As composer Powell, in addition to the aforementioned, has written commission works for big band (e.g. "Midtnorsk Ungdomsstorband", "Big Boss Band", "Ett Fett Storband"), wind bands ("Luftforsvarets Musikkorps", "Bispehaugen Ungdomskorps") and a number of smaller ensembles. He has also written a mini-opera based on the novel about «Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde» (2006), and made musical arrangements to Jens Carelius' album The Architect (2011). [1]
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*Review of Hayden Powell - Roots and Stems by John Kelman at Allaboutjazz.com