DIGITAL OPEN VENUE - MEET ELSA NILSSON
A socially engaged jazz artist, educator, with a Special focus on mimicry in nature.
Elsa Nilsson is a flutist and composer from Gothenburg, Sweden, living and active in New York since 2010, where she works as a bandleader and freelance musician. She has released 15 albums as a bandleader and sideman with, among others, Bill Frisell (Sound and Fury, Esthesis Quartet), Jon Cowherd and Chris Morrissey (Atlas Of Sound, Coast Redwoods) and Pulses, which was played here on Radio P2 as a live broadcast from the Viktoriateatern in Malmö.
Nilsson also works as a professor at The New School in New York where she teaches courses in Rhythm, Socially Engaged Artistry, Improvisation and Collaboration, Composition and Ensemble. She has toured North and South America and Europe with her Band Of Pulses and has plans to come to Sweden.
Elsa has played at Carnegie Hall with Ravi Coltrane, has received several awards from Chamber Music America and is the winner of the 2018 National Flute Association's Jazz Flute competition.
She also has a special interest for mimikry in nature.
Elsa is also touring in Europe in June and July!
https://elsanilsson.bandcamp.com
Books::
Atlas Of Sound: Coast Redwoods
https://elsanilsson.bandcamp.com/album/atlas-of-sound-coast-redwoods-41-32098n-124-04355w
Atlas Of Sound: Quila Quina
https://elsanilsson.bandcamp.com/album/atlas-of-sound-quila-quina-40-17-3821-n-71-45-6848-s
Nature:
Biomimicry - Janine M Benyus
Harnessed - Mark Changizi
Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Songs of Trees - David George Haskell
Race/music:
Blues People - LeRoi Jones
Music, a subversive history - Ted Gioia
As Serious as Your life - val Wilmer
Notes and tones - Art Taylor
Music I listen to atm:
Gustavo Beytelmann
Leo Genovese
Leila Pinero : Cataveno e Girassol
Paul Bley: Open to Love
Clifford Brown: Jordu
Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
Nano Stern: Refugio
Karl Berger and KirkKnuffke: heart is a melody
Kendrick Lamar: Mr.Morale and The Big Steppers
Paul Motion: Lost In A Dream
Martina Liviero: Formas al Desaparecer
Caroline Davis: Fallows
Marike Van Dojt: Stranded
Angelica Sanchez: Nighttime creatures
