Hayden Powell

Hayden Powell
Hayden Powell
	October, 2017
Background information
Birth name	Hayden James Richard Powell
Born	25 September 1983 (age 41)
Origin	England
Genres	Jazz
Instrument	Trumpet
Labels	Inner Ear, Periskop, Edition, ECM, Odin
Website	haydenpowell.com

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]

Career

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]

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums

2011: The Attic (Inner Ear), as Hayden Powell Trio including Eyolf Dale & Jo Skaansar^[2]
2013: Roots and Stems (Periskop)
2015: Circadian Rhythm & Blues (Periskop)
2018: Six Commissions (Periskop), with Hayden Powell
2024: Undergrowth (Periskop), with Hayden Powell

Collaborations

With Dixi

1998: Just Over in the Dixi-Land
1999: Some of Those Days
2002: Going to the Mardi Gras (Herman Records)
2005: The New Orleans Sessions

With Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

2006: Tribute (MNJ Records), with Vigleik Storaas
2007: Live in Oslo (MNJ Records), with Maria Kannegaard Trio
2009: Live at Moldejazz (MNJ Records), with Kobert
2009: What if: A Counterfactual Fairytale (MNJ records), with Erlend Skomsvoll
2011: Kinetic Music (MNJ Records), with Magic Pocket
2011: Migrations (MNJ Records), with Øyvind Brække
2014: Tree House (MNJ Records), with Trondheim Jazzorkester & Albatrosh
2024: Maetrix (ODIN), with Espen Berg

With others

2009: Vi som ser i mørket (Grappa Music), with Siri Nilsen
2009: Live at Dokkhuset (Komponist og dirigent, MNJ Records), with "Midtnorsk Ungdomsstorband"
2010: Den Blåaste Natt (Talik Records), with Jo Skaansar
2011: The Katabatic Wind (Bolage Records), with Magic Pocket & Morten Qvenild
2011: The Architect (Jansen Plateproduksjon), with Jens Carelius
2011: Katedral For Tapte Drømmer (Kirkelig Kulturverksted), with Solfrid Molland
2016: BRIDGES with Seamus Blake (AMP), with Bridges
2016: Cornua Copiae (Clean Feed), with DaMaNa
2016: Ante Lucem (ECM), with Iro Haarla
2016: Forvandling (Kirkelig Kulturverksted), with Solfrid Molland
2016: Wolf Valley (Edition Records), with Eyolf Dale
2016: Regnbueponniens Significante Påskesang (Periskop), with Significant Time
2018: Return to Mind (Edition), with Eyolf Dale Wolf Valley
2018: Multiverse (Pling Music), with Anders Lønne Grønseth
2019: Continuum (AMP), with Bridges
2019: Owerset (Dell Daisy Records), with Sarah-Jane Summers
2019: Theory of Anything (Pling Music), with Anders Lønne Grønseth Multiverse
2019: Fange av min tid (Grappa), with Jo Skaansar
2019: Strange Days (Whirlwind), with Natacha Atlas
2020: Håpets kappe (KKV), with Solfrid Molland
2020: Outer View (NXN), with Anders Lønne Grønseth Multiverse
2020: Inner View (NXN), with Anders Lønne Grønseth Multiverse
2023: Water Fabric (ODIN), with Espen Berg