18/12/2025
Special thanks to UKVIBE for a 4/5 on our Ditlef Eckhoff release !
"The closing ‘Blues’ is an Eckhoff composition, it pushes a sound more reminiscent of 1950s hard bop with its angular forms and sharp changes. There’s satisfying tension on the record between these stylings and the development of a home grown sound which was to bear so much fruit in the coming decades."
Jazzaggression, the Norwegian jazz label based in Finland has issued a fascinating historical set by Norwegian trumpeter Ditlef Eckhoff. It was recorded at Sogn student campus, Oslo in 1968 by the then recently formed Sogn Jazz Society; recorded by uncredited tech students it has been skillfully res...
