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Håkon Mjåset Johansen
Håkon Mjåset Johansen (born 1 August 1975 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz drummer and composer, known from playing with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra featuring Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, cooperations with Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions of Jazz, Ole Morten Vågan's Motif, Siri Gjære's Cricket Club and the Ola Kvernberg Trio. He has also contributed to releases with Jon Larsen, the Atle Nymo/Frode Nymo Quartet and Jan Garbarek. Career Johansen was educated on the Jazz program at '' Trondheim Musikkonservatorium'', where he and fellow students established the band Urban Connection in 1996 and Come Shine (1999–2003). He also plays with a series of other bands and participates on many recordings. With the Håvard Wiik Trio he has performed with Ole Morten Vågan, and at the Oslo Jazz Festival 2006, he played with Jon Gordon in quartet with Roger Arntzen and Asbjørn Lerheim. He has also been a regular member of Håvard Stubø Quartet. Honors *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and was the fourth largest urban area. Trondheim lies on the south shore of Trondheim Fjord at the mouth of the River Nidelva. Among the major technology-oriented institutions headquartered in Trondheim are the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF), and St. Olavs University Hospital. The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post, and it served as the capital of Norway during the Viking Age until 1217. From 1152 to 1537, the city was the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nidaros; it then became, and has remained, the seat of the Lutheran Diocese of Nidaros, and the site of the Nidaros Cathedral. It was incorporated in 1838. The current municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław Garbarek, and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. He grew up in Oslo, stateless until the age of seven, as there was no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway at the time. When he was 21, he married the author Vigdis Garbarek. He is the father of musician and composer Anja Garbarek. Biography Garbarek's style incorporates a sharp-edged tone, long, keening, sustained notes, and generous use of silence. He began his recording career in the late 1960s, notably featuring on recordings by the American jazz composer George Russell (such as '' Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature''). By 1973 he had turned his back on the harsh dissonances of avant-garde jazz, retaining only his tone from his previous approach. Garbarek gained wider recogni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spellemannprisen
Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians. The award was established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. First awarded in 1973, the prize honours musicians from the previous year; it is still awarded annually, usually in January or February. The Spellemann committee, composed of members of IFPI Norway and FONO, manages the award and acts as the judge. 21 categories are currently awarded, in addition to other honorary and industry awards the committee may give. In 2020 and 2021, the award show was held digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Juries and scoring Separate juries convene for each category. Members are confidential from both the general public and the other juries. The juries score each nominee separately, then convene to deliberate until there is a winner. Usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling Legs
__NOTOC__ Curling Legs Productions A/S (established 1992 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label with a catalogue encompassing all styles of jazz and improvised music. It was started by Knut Værnes and Morten Halle to release their own music. In 1994, Odin Records was licensed to Curling Legs from the Norwegian Jazz Forum, to continue the production of Norwegian jazz. In addition to Værnes and Halle, the third co-owner of Curling Legs is Helge Westbye, the director of the record label Grappa Music, and the label is part of FONO. The music is distributed through the company Musikkoperatørene. By the time of their fiftieth issue, on 3 May 1999, Curling Legs had won Spellemannprisen four times. The Radka Toneff Memorial Award is funded by the royalty income from all her releases on Odin, Universal and Curling Legs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongsberg Jazz Award
Kongsberg Jazz Festival or Kongsberg Jazzfestival is an international jazz festival that has been held annually in Kongsberg, Norway, since 1964. Artists Several worldwide great artists have visited Kongsberg during this festival; international stars including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Nigel Kennedy, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, McCoy Tyner, Radka Toneff, Bobby McFerrin, John Butcher, Anthony Braxton, Diana Krall and Pat Metheny have played in Kongsberg several times. The festival is also an opportunity for young talented musicians to perform, and many now well-known Norwegian jazz-artists have begun their career in Kongsberg. Awards The Kongsberg Jazz Award (also called the DNB award, established in 1996) is an award given to the most prominent Norwegian jazz artists of the year at the festival, given in cooperation with DNB. Until 2011, the prize was 100,000 Norwegian kroner, but fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spellemannsprisen
Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians. The award was established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. First awarded in 1973, the prize honours musicians from the previous year; it is still awarded annually, usually in January or February. The Spellemann committee, composed of members of IFPI Norway and FONO, manages the award and acts as the judge. 21 categories are currently awarded, in addition to other honorary and industry awards the committee may give. In 2020 and 2021, the award show was held digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Juries and scoring Separate juries convene for each category. Members are confidential from both the general public and the other juries. The juries score each nominee separately, then convene to deliberate until there is a winner. Usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Stubø
Håvard Aasan Stubø (born 26 March 1977 in Narvik, Northern Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer, son and musical successor of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943–1986) and Grete Karin Aasan Stubø (b. 1943), and brother of Jazz singer Kjersti and Theater director Eirik Stubø. (in Norwegian) NRK.no (in Norwegian) Early life Stubø was raised in Narvik surrounded by jazz music. His father died from cancer when he was nine. He picked up the guitar when about twelve, and had his first gigs with local alternative rock bands in Narvik, such as ''Magnet''. After a few years at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen studying English language and philosophy, he went to study music with the jazz program at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music (2000–2004), where he participated in jazz the groups ''Marita Røstad & Velvet Lounge Orchestra'', ''Ping Pong'' and a trio with Tore Johansen and Roger Arntzen. After that, he moved back to Oslo, working as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbjørn Lerheim
Asbjørn Erlend Lerheim (born 28 April 1977 in Ålesund, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and music educater. Career Lerheim was raised in Langevåg, Sula, Møre og Romsdal, but has been based in Oslo since 1996. He is a graduate of music at Fagerlia upper secondary school, and executed further studies at Viken folkehøgskole, University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music. As college/university lecturer, he teaches inter alia, at the University of Oslo and the Fjellhaug Internasjonale Høgskole. Lerheims has numerous recordings on his shoulders, the two main projects is with the band Chrome Hill, as composer and baritone guitarist with Jørgen Munkeby (saxophone), Torstein Lofthus (drumes) and Roger Arntzen (upright bass), and in collaboration wit Lisa Dillan in the duo Quite Quiet Project, where they re-interprets material known from Elvis Presley's performances. On the duo's first album ''Love me tender – The Quite Quiet Way'' and by a variety of live performan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Arntzen
Roger Arntzen (born 3 June 1976) is a Norwegian jazz bassist, known from playing in bands like In The Country, Ballrogg, Chrome Hill and Håvard Stubø Trio. He has also previously played within the band Østenfor Sol. Career Arntzen was born in Bodø, Norway. He picked up playing the accordion at five years of age, changing instrument to the tuba when he was at high school. Later he switched to electric guitar bass, before he eventually became an upright bass player. He attended musical studies at the University of Oslo (1998–99) and at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (1998–2006). Arntzen has been involved in different bands such as Østenfor Sol, and is now part of bands like the piano trio In The Country accompanied by the pianist and keyboarder Morten Qvenild and the drummer Pål Hausken. In the Country has been active since 2003, releasein five (2014) well received albums, ''This Was The Pace Of My Heartbeat'' (2004), ''Losing Stones'' (2006), ''Collecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Gordon (musician)
Jon Gordon (born 1966 in New York City) is an American jazz saxophonist who leads the Jon Gordon Quartet. In 1996, he won first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. He is currently a professor in the jazz program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada."Jazz is 'not about competition,' says Juno-nominated Winnipeg musician Jon Gordon" Manitoba, May 11, 2022. He received a nomination for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Wiik
Håvard Skarpnes Wiik (born 10 March 1975) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, known from a number of recordings with bands like Atomic, and performances with musicians like Petter Wettre, Ola Kvernberg and Stian Carstensen. Career Wiik caused sensation at 17 years old in a concert at the Moldejazz, with bassist Steinar Raknes, as the "Wiikrak Duo". He attended the jazz program at Trondheim musikkonservatorium from 1994 to 96, where he and fellow students established the jazz band Element. After moving to Oslo he has been a key player in many band projects, such as Atomic, "Free Fall", "Atomic Schooldays", a duo with Håkon Kornstad, a new project with Axel Dörner and Fredrik Ljungkvist. He has been an obvious choice as collaborator with giants in jazz, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano representing the old school, and Ken Vandermark being a soul mate from the here and now., for example the band Motif. He also led the Håvard Wiik Trio with Mats Eilertsen (bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Shine
Come Shine is a Norwegian jazz band, established 2001 in Trondheim. Biography Their eponymously titled debut album was released in 2001 on Curling Legs, and was followed by a later studio album, ''Do Do That Voodoo'', and a live album, ''Come Shine with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Concert''. Come Shine has a long history at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, where they this summer again is on the playlist. They also played at the Norwegian National Jazz Scene, Victoria, in Oslo. Personnel *Erlend Skomsvoll - piano *Håkon Mjåset Johansen - drums *Sondre Meisfjord - bass *Live Maria Roggen - vocals Discography Albums *2001: ''Come Shine'' (Curling Legs) *2002: ''Do Do That Voodoo'' (Curling Legs) *2003: ''Come Shine with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Concert'' (Curling Legs) *2014: ''Red and Gold'' ( Jazzland) *2016: ''Norwegian Caravan''( Lawoo Classics) References External links *Come Shine - a peek from the Operaon YouTube YouTube is a global online video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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