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Nattjazz
Bergen International Jazz Festival or Nattjazz, is one of the largest jazz festivals of Norway. The festival has a musical profile with an emphasis on ethnic and contemporary jazz. It is held annually in late May, coinciding with Festspillene i Bergen, and is located at Verftet in Bergen. Biography The festival was arranged for the first time in 1972 at ''HÃ¥ndverkeren'' in Bergen (now closed). It moved to ''Studentsenteret'' in 1978 (now demolished and rebuilt), and eventually to ''USF Verftet'' in 1994. In 2012 Nattjazz was held in different localities in ''VÃ¥gsbunnen'' because of the reconstructions of ''USF Verftet''. During the course of the festival most concerts are held indoors, but with some outdoor concerts too. The festival has also collaborated with other events, such as Festspillene i Bergen in Grieghallen. Inside the ''USF Verftet'' there have been concerts on four different stages and the public bought admission to the house, not to individual concerts. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyvind Hegg-Lunde
Øyvind Hegg-Lunde (born 12 February 1982 in Lærdal, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Borgund, Lærdal, but today resides in Bergen. He is known from collaborations with José González (singer), José Gonzalez, Junip, Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken, Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Per Jørgensen, Terje Isungset, Håkon Kornstad, Kurt Johannessen, Stein Urheim, The Megaphonic Thrift, Odin Staveland, Odd Martin Skålnes, Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Marilyn Mazur. Career Hegg-Lunde holds a Master's degree in jazz/improvised music at Griegakademiet and the Högskolan för scen och musik in Gothenburg. He is active in several separate projects, like Building Instrument, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Strings & Timpani, Electric Eye (band), Electric Eye, BERG, Crab is Crap, Glow, Krachmacher, The Big Almost, PSST, Oliva/Abbuehl/Hegg-Lunde, Susanne Abbuehl. Since 2001 he has toured clubs and festivals in Norway and Scandinavia, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Kvien Brunvoll
Mari Kvien Brunvoll (born 20 February 1984 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian folk and jazz singer who has over the past few years attracted attention at festivals internationally with her solo concept, where the voice is complemented by small electronic and acoustic instruments in a sound inspired by jazz, pop and folk music. She is the daughter of Lawyer Knut Anker Brunvoll (b. 1945) and jazz singer and pianist Inger Johanne Brunvoll (born Kvien in 1945), and the younger sister of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Ane Brun (b. 1976) and photographer Bjørn Brunvoll (b. 1973). Career Brunvoll is a 2010 graduate of the Grieg Academy in Bergen. She won the Vital Award at the Nattjazz, Bergen 2009. Her first appearance at Moldejazz was in 2010 with her solo project. Brunvoll is known for her amazing solo project, which has received critical acclaim through concerts at Nattjazz, Moldejazz, and a number of jazz clubs around Europe. As a student in the jazz program at Grieg Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agbaland Nattjazz 2015
Agbaland (initiated 2012 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian trio comprising the veterans Terje Isungset and Per Jørgensen expanding their duo project 'Agbalagba Daada' with the organist Sigbjørn Apeland, known from his works with Berit Opheim 1982. Biography Agbaland approaches the music in a playful manner giving the audience a sense that anything can happen, whether it is wild and noisy, or meditative and ceremonial. Terje Isungset is among the world's most creative and innovative percussionist, and has in recent years been working a lot with ice as a material for musical instrument. Per Jørgensen appears at the Nattjazz festival in many gigs, with a career ranging from solo guitar within Bergen Blues Band, to trumpet and vocal within the trio JøKleBa and the Magnetic North Orchestra. Band members * Per Jørgensen - trumpet, vocals, percussion * Sigbjørn Apeland - keyboards * Terje Isungset Terje Isungset (born May 4, 1964) is a Norwegian drummer. From his background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjetil Møster
Kjetil Traavik Møster (born 17 June 1976) is a Norwegian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet) and composer, known from bands like The Core, Ultralyd, Brat, Zanussi 5, and performance with Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, later released on CD. He has also made his mark with experimental performances at the interface between electronic based fri-rock and jazz. Career Møster was born in Bergen and has played the accordion since he was six years old; he learned the cornet, bass and saxophone in subsequent years, and played the guitar in the rock band "Riper i lakken" since 13. From 1995 to 1996, Møster studied at ''Sund folkehøgskole'' where he wrote a song called "Eg veit ka du gjorde med Åshild" (''"I know what you did with Åshild"'') for the album made by the current class of ''Sund''. He later attended the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1998–2001), where he established the trio "Möster", with Steinar Raknes and Tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Lien
Helge Lien (born 23 April 1975) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and band leader. He has in recent years also developed a passion for photography and digital processing of images and has passion for powerful melancholy, dynamics and detail. Education Lien attended Stange High School 1991 and earned his Examen artium in 1994, before taking up musical studies at Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He got a Cand.mag. in 1998 under guidance of Mikhail Alperin, known as pianist of the Moscow Art Trio and from solo performances and recordings, and did postgraduate studies with the group Tri O'Trang culminating with cand.musicae exam in 2001. Career Lien is known from a variety of musical contexts, such as Tri O'Trang (with Torben Snekkestad on sax and Lars Andreas Haug on tuba), Helge Lien Trio, the duo Hero with saxophonist Rolf-Erik Nystrom, and with the vocalists Live Maria Roggen and Silje Nergaard. The last decade Lien has given us a lot of evidence that a new Norwegian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jazz Festivals
This is a list of notable jazz festivals around the world. Historic jazz festivals Jazz festivals by country The following is an incomplete list of notable jazz festivals, including both current and defunct festivals of note. Africa Angola * Luanda International Jazz Festival in Luanda Cabo Verde * Kriol Jazz Festival in Praia, Cabo Verde Lesotho *Morija Arts & Cultural Festival in Morija Madagascar * Nosy Be Jazz Festival Morocco * Tanjazz in Tangier Nigeria *Lagos International Jazz Festival in Lagos *Music Week Africa South Africa * Cape Town International Jazz Festival in Cape Town * National Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown * Standard Bank Joy of Jazz in Johannesburg Americas Argentina *Bolson Jazz Festival in El Bolson, Rio Negro *Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Buenos Aires *Córdoba Jazz Fest in Córdoba, Córdoba Province *Festival Mar del Plata de Jazz in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province *Festival de Jazz de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Festival
This is a list of notable jazz festivals around the world. Historic jazz festivals Jazz festivals by country The following is an incomplete list of notable jazz festivals, including both current and defunct festivals of note. Africa Angola * Luanda International Jazz Festival in Luanda Cabo Verde * Kriol Jazz Festival in Praia, Cabo Verde Lesotho *Morija Arts & Cultural Festival in Morija Madagascar * Nosy Be Jazz Festival Morocco * Tanjazz in Tangier Nigeria *Lagos International Jazz Festival in Lagos *Music Week Africa South Africa * Cape Town International Jazz Festival in Cape Town * National Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown * Standard Bank Joy of Jazz in Johannesburg Americas Argentina *Bolson Jazz Festival in El Bolson, Rio Negro *Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Buenos Aires *Córdoba Jazz Fest in Córdoba, Córdoba Province *Festival Mar del Plata de Jazz in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province *Festival de Jazz de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tord Gustavsen
Tord Gustavsen (born 5 October 1970) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer. He tours extensively worldwide, and he has been a bandleader for a trio, ensemble and quartet at various times, all bearing his name. Early life Gustavsen was born on 5 October 1970 in Oslo and raised in rural Hurdal, Akershus. He "grew up playing church music". Later life and career Gustavsen holds a bachelor's degree (mellomfag) in psychology at the University of Oslo, before he attended the Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium for a three years study of jazz (1993–96). Thereafter he became a graduate ( Cand.philol.) of musicology at the University of Oslo, where he was guest teacher of jazz piano and theory (1998–2002). Between 2003 and 2007 The Tord Gustavsen Trio released three albums on ECM Records.Conrad, Tom (February 2014) "Extended Circle – Tord Gustavsen Quartet (ECM)". ''The New York City Jazz Record''. p. 25. The trio was made up of Gustavsen on piano, Harald Johnsen on double bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Festival
This is a list of notable jazz festivals around the world. Historic jazz festivals Jazz festivals by country The following is an incomplete list of notable jazz festivals, including both current and defunct festivals of note. Africa Angola * Luanda International Jazz Festival in Luanda Cabo Verde * Kriol Jazz Festival in Praia, Cabo Verde Lesotho *Morija Arts & Cultural Festival in Morija Madagascar * Nosy Be Jazz Festival Morocco * Tanjazz in Tangier Nigeria *Lagos International Jazz Festival in Lagos *Music Week Africa South Africa * Cape Town International Jazz Festival in Cape Town * National Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown * Standard Bank Joy of Jazz in Johannesburg Americas Argentina *Bolson Jazz Festival in El Bolson, Rio Negro *Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Buenos Aires *Córdoba Jazz Fest in Córdoba, Córdoba Province *Festival Mar del Plata de Jazz in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province *Festival de Jazz de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festspillene I Bergen
Bergen International Festival ( no, Festspillene i Bergen) is an annual international music and cultural festival in Bergen, Norway. Biography The Bergen International festival is the largest festival in the Nordic countries in its genre and has a large number of activities in music, dance, literature, visual arts, folklore, etc. The festival is held over fourteen days from the end of May to the start of June and is located in numerous places like the Grieg Hall, Haakon's Hall, Troldhaugen, Lysøen, Siljustøl as well as streets and town squares of Bergen. In the same time span the International Jazz Festival, Nattjazz, takes place in Bergen. The first festival that started on 1 June 1953, exactly 55 years after its predecessor and source of inspiration, the first music festival in Norway Edvard Grieg's ''Bergen Music Festival'' starting on the 26 June 1898. The model was the Salzburg Festival, and the initiative came partly from opera singer Fanny Elstad. The original festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Neset
Marius Søfteland Neset (born 2 January 1985 in Os, Hordaland) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) living in Copenhagen. He is known from collaborations within the jazz bands "People Are Machines", "Kaktusch", "JazzKamikaze" and Django Bates projects "StoRMChaser" big band and " Human Chain". He is the son of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (b. 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (b. 1961), and the brother of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (b. 1987) flautist Ingrid Søfteland Neset (b. 1992). Career Neset holds a Master's degree at the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory 2008, and finished Soloist studies under the guidance of Django Bates among others, at the same place in 2010. The same year he toured with the Klüvers Big Band performing their Rolling Stones project, with whom he did a gig at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival. The debut album under his own name was ''Suite for the Seven Mountains'' (2008). Neset called the band "People Are Machines", i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molde
Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Molde which is also the administrative centre of Møre og Romsdal county, the commercial hub of the Romsdal region, and the seat of the Diocese of Møre. Other main population centres in the municipality include the villages of Hjelset, Kleive, Nesjestranda, Midsund, Nord-Heggdal, Eidsvåg, Rausand, Boggestranda, Myklebostad, Eresfjord, and Eikesdalen. Molde has a maritime, temperate climate, with cool-to-warm summers, and relatively mild winters. The city is nicknamed ''The City of Roses''. Molde was originally the name of a farm by a natural harbour, which grew into a timber trading port in the late 16th century. Formal trading rights were introduced in 1614, and the town was incorporated through a royal c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
