{{Short description|2010 studio album by Vigleik Storaas Septet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Infobox album | name = Open Ears | type = Studio | artist = <br />Vigleik Storaas Septet | cover =Open Ears.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|df=yes|2010|09|20}} | recorded = January 5, 2010 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = {{duration|m=56|s=17}} | label = Inner Ear/Musikkkoperatørene | producer = | chronology = Vigleik Storaas | prev_title = Now | prev_year = 2010 | next_title = Epistel No 5 | next_year = 2012 }}
'''''Open Ears''''' (released September 20, 2010 by the label Inner Ear/Musikkkoperatørene - INEA 08) is a studio album by Vigleik Storaas Septet.<ref name=nettavisen>{{cite news |first=Tor |last=Hammerø |title=Åpent og vakkert |url=http://www.side3.no/musikk/anmeldelser/article3007767.ece |language=Norwegian |date=2010-10-19 |accessdate=2012-12-11 |agency=Nettavisen Side3.no}}</ref><ref name=nrk>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_jazz/1.7512338 |title=Vigleik Storaas - Open Ears Review |first=Erling |last=Wicklund |language=Norwegian |date=2011-02-17 |accessdate=2012-12-11 |publisher=NRK Jazz}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://radioludo.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=935:vigleik-storaas-trio-epistel-5&catid=37&Itemid=173 |title=Vigleik Storaas Discography |accessdate=2012-12-10 |publisher=RadioLudo.no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084647/http://radioludo.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=935:vigleik-storaas-trio-epistel-5&catid=37&Itemid=173 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{Album ratings | rev1 = ''Nettavisen'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|6}}<ref name=nettavisen/> }}
== Reception == The review by Tor Hammerø of the Norwegian electronic newspaper Nettavisen awarded the album four out of six.<ref name=nettavisen/>
Reviewer Erling Wicklund of the Norwegian radio broadcasting NRK states: {| class="wikitable" |- |"... And bandleader Vigleik Storaas is himself delightfully impossible to classify and diverse, both as pianist and composer. So then you just have to enjoy the septet-jazz rebirth in Norway..."<ref name=nrk/> |}
== Track listing == #«Number One» (5:25) #«Fort Gaelic» (4:38) #«Haunting» (6:39) #«Cicada» (6:21) #«Reminiscing» (6:36) #«Every Now And Then» (8:02) #«Second Thought» (8:05) #«TTW» (5:49) #«Open Ears #1» (4:42)
== Personnel == *Tore Johansen - trumpet and flugelhorn *Jukka Perko - alt and soprano saxophone *Tore Brunborg - tenor saxophone and flute *Øyvind Brække - trombone *Vigleik Storaas - piano *Mats Eilertsen - double bass *Per Oddvar Johansen - drums
== Credits == *Mastered by Jan Erik Kongshaug *Mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug *Recorded by Jan Erik Kongshaug
== Notes == *Recorded and mixed 5 and 6 January 2010 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Vigleik-Storaas-Open-Ears/release/3020437 |title=Vigleik Storaas – Open Ears |accessdate=2012-12-10 |publisher=Discogs.com}}</ref>
== References == {{portal|Norway|Jazz}} {{Reflist}} {{Vigleik Storaas}} {{Authority control}}
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