29 results

Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption

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 an...

Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery

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
This chapter considers how four festivals across the UK – Brecon Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners in Belfast, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, and Manchester Jazz Festival – h...

Reflections on an imperfect normal: A letter to the future music industries

Journal Article
Medbøe, H., & Raine, S. (2021)
Reflections on an imperfect normal: A letter to the future music industries. Academia Letters, https://doi.org/10.20935/al125

Islay Jazz Festival

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...

Haftor Medbøe Scandinavian Group: live at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013

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 li...

Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world

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...

Will of the People

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 percuss...

Medbøe | Halle | Malling - Hvor En Var Baen

Other
Medboe, H. (2019)
Medbøe | Halle | Malling - Hvor En Var Baen. Edinburgh
Haftor Medbøe (guitar), Gunnar Halle (trumpet/voice) and Eva Malling (bass) join creative forces in the recording of music inspired by the Danish poet Martin N Hansen. The alb...

Medbøe | Karlzon

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 ...

Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene

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...
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The theoretically embodied improvisor: integrated frameworks for creative practice and pedagogy

2024 - date
Tom Bancroft | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

A space of time: developing screendance practice

2021 - date
Katrina McPherson | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Diane Maclean

Creative autonomy in the jazz framework: An exploration of autonomy and artistic license as it is applied to performance, improvisation and composition in the jazz context

2021 - date
Kyle Irwin | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation

2018 - 2021
James Hind | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Pioneering television food and cooking programmes: overlooked content, controversy, and contributions to innovation in British television production 1936-1976

2018 - date
Kevin Geddes | Director of Studies: Dr Diane Maclean | Second Supervisor: Prof Louise Milne

Publishing empires: picturebook publishing on the peripheries of Europe

2017 - date
Rita Faire | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton | Second Supervisor: Avril Gray

An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom, locality and authenticity

2016 - 2018
Dr Dave Hook | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe

Cultural identity and transnational heritage in contemporary jazz: a practice-based study of composition and collaboration

2011 - 2013
This study focuses on three albums of original music performed and recorded by...
Prof Haftor Medboe | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton