Supercharger@ BodøJazzOpen, Picadilly (English)

When you're travelling to a foreign city for cultural events, you look for the extraordinary. At a festival, you first look for the big names and when it says that a free concert is being moved from one pub to another, your expectations are not exactly high.

However, I knew that Ernst-Viggo Sandbakk is a colourful figure in the Norwegian jazz scene. As a musician, drum teacher and director of the jazz festival in Trondheim. Perhaps he has even helped to shape one or two of the many Norwegian jazz drummers I admire. My friend Theo from Germany replied to my post this morning with this record: "Oh yes, I've been practising with it for hours."

How to play a modern drumset

My appeal: Give us more musicians like Supercharger who enjoy what they do and, by the way, return to the roots of jazz in honky tonk. Actually, the video is too shaky, but what the hell? I quote Enst-Wiggo: "It's jazz, and that's where improvisation comes in!

Which is not to say that they were sloppy or noodled down inferior stuff. Eirik and Ernst-Wiggo radiate the spirit of Rag Time, of New Orleans at the beginning of the last century. jazz was born in the pub and only became art music in the course of the second half of the last century. It does it good and it inspires it, gives it wings when it is played in the spirit of this duo.

I was most enthusiastic about St Thomas, the song by Sonny Rollins! Great class, Eirik and Ernst-Wiggo!