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Olavi Louhivuori
Olavi Louhivuori (born 13 July 1981 in Jyväskylä, Finland) is a Finnish jazz drummer and composer, the leader of his own ensemble Oddarrang, and also performer within several other bands. He is married to the singer Emma Salokoski. Career Louhivuori was raised in a musical family. His father is professor at the Department of Music University of Jyväskylä and his mother, a violinist and music educator. Each of the five children in his family was taught to play instruments. Louhivuori started to play violin at four, and changed to cello and piano when eight. When he was nine years of age he changed to drums and founded his first band together with classmate Joona Toivanen. While at Cygnaeus high school (1997), he played with the Joona Toivanen Trio, as well as joining gigs at local jam sessions. In 1998 he attended the jazz program at Finnish Music Conservatory, graduating in 2002, and then moved to Helsinki, and joined the Sibelius Academy to study jazz with Jukkis Uotila. ...
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Mats Eilertsen
Mats Eilertsen (born 4 March 1975) is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer. He is known for recording with numerous bands, including the Maria Kannegaard Trio, Ola Kvernberg, Nils Økland, Eldbjørg Raknes, Anders Aarum Trio, Eirik Hegdal, Sverre Gjørvad, Nymark Collective, SKRUK, «Jazzmob», «Dingobats», Håkon Kornstad Trio, Food with Iain Ballamy, Jacob Young Band, Solveig Slettahjell's Slow Motion Orchestra, Håvard Wiik Trio, and «JazzCode». Career Eilertsen was born in Trondheim and attended the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium, where he participated in the Jazz program and was part of the Jazz band Dingobats along with fellow students Eirik Hegdal (saxophones), Njål Ølnes (tenor saxophone), Thomas Dahl (guitar) and Sverre Gjørvad (drums), primarily playing Hegdals compositions. He has two band releases as leader of the band Turanga, with band members Fredrik Ljungkvist, Ernst Reijseger, and Thomas Strønen. He also performed with the quartet «Parish», wit ...
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Blue Note
In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard. Typically the alteration is between a quartertone and a semitone, but this varies depending on the musical context. Origins and meaning The blue notes are usually said to be the lowered third, lowered fifth, and lowered seventh scale degrees. The lowered fifth is also known as the raised fourth.Ferguson, Jim (1999). ''All Blues Soloing for Jazz Guitar: Scales, Licks, Concepts & Choruses'', p. 20. . Though the blues scale has "an inherent minor tonality, it is commonly 'forced' over major-key chord changes, resulting in a distinctively dissonant conflict of tonalities". A similar conflict occurs between the notes of the minor scale and the minor blues scale, as heard in songs such as "Why Don't You Do Right?", " Happy" and " Sweet About Me". In the case of the lowered third over the root (or the lowered seventh over the dominant), the resul ...
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Trygve Seim
Trygve Seim (born 25 April 1971) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer. He started to play the saxophone in 1985 after hearing Jan Garbarek's CD ''Eventyr''. Career Seim was born in Oslo. He studied music at Foss videregående skole (1987–90) and attended the Jazz program at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1990–92), where he completed studies in jazz saxophone. Further more Seim studied composition with Terje Bjørklund, Bertil Palmar Johansen, Edward Vesala and Bjørn Kruse. In 1991, he and fellow student, the pianist Christian Wallumrød founded the group Airamero in 1991, including bassist Johannes Eick and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. The band released the album ''Airamero'' in 1994. It also undertook several concert tours in Scandinavia and Germany. Seim became part of Jon Balke's band Oslo 13 in 1992, and took over the joint leadership of this orchestra in 1994 together with Morten Halle and Torbjørn Sunde. Now the band is called 1300 Os ...
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Eirik Hegdal
Eirik Hegdal (born 3 October 1973 in Gjøvik, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone), composer, arranger and music teacher, known from the band Dingobats (1995-2005) and as leader of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (from 2002). Career After a year at ''Sund folkehøgskole'', he attended the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1995–98), where he established the band Dingobats, with Njål Ølnes (tenor saxophone), Thomas Dahl (guitar), Mats Eilertsen (bass) and Sverre Gjørvad (drums), primarily playing Hegdals compositions. He later took over as leader of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, after pianist Erlend Skomsvoll. In 2006 he performed the commissioned work for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, ''Space is still the place'' with the US saxophonist Joshua Redman as guest soloist. In 2002, Hegdal with drummer Tor Haugerud, started a collaboration with the classic piano trio Alpaca Trio, consisting of Else Bø (piano), Sigrid Elisabeth Stang (violin) and Marianne Bau ...
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2016 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting jazz events in the year 2016. Albums released January February March April May June July August September October November December Unknown date # A * ''Quiet Revolution'' (Newvelle) by Ben Allison solo piano (vinyl LP). D * ''Return'' (Newvelle) by Jack DeJohnette solo piano (vinyl LP). F * ''Strength and Sanity'' (Newvelle) by Don Friedman Piano Trio (vinyl LP). K * ''Meantime'' (Newvelle) by Frank Kimbrough (vinyl LP). P * ''Some Other Time'' (Newvelle) by Noah Preminger (vinyl LP). Deaths January * 3 – Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (born 1932). * 4 – Long John Hunter, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (born 1931). * 6 – Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, Cuban trumpeter(born 1928). * 7 – Alan Haven, English organist (born 1935). * 16 – Hubert Giraud, French composer and lyricist (born 1920). * 31 – Janusz Muniak, Polish saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer (born 1941). Februar ...
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Thomas T
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ...
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Tore Brunborg
Tore Brunborg (born 20 May 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer who plays saxophone. He was born in Trondheim but grew up in Voss where a jazz environment was flowering. Known from numerous appearances with international greats including Bugge Wesseltoft, Håvard Wiik, Audun Kleive, Anders Jormin, Diederik Wissels, Arild Andersen, Pat Metheny, Per Jørgensen, Geir Lysne, Misha Alperin, Bjørn Alterhaug, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Jarle Vespestad, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Nils Petter Molvær, Vigleik Storaas, Bo Stief, and Billy Cobham. Career After playing with Knut Kristiansen and Per Jørgensen, Brunborg debuted at Vossajazz (1980, 1982). After this he studied music at ''Toneheim folkehøgskole'' and on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1980–82), and has evolved to be one of the most sought jazz saxophonists in Norway. He was on the lineup for the acclaimed band Masqualero and was three times awarded Spellemannprisen with this band. Brunborg also was ...
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List Of Hubro Albums
The following is a summary of the Hubro Music albums. Hubro Music is a Norwegian record label dedicated to releasing music from the Norwegian jazz and improvised music scene, and is a label under the Grappa Grappa is an alcoholic beverage: a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). Grappa is made by distilling the skins, pulp, seeds, and stems (i.e., the poma ... parent label. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubro Music Discographies of Norwegian record labels ...
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ECM Records
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the most beautiful sound next to silence", taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in ''Coda'', a Canadian jazz magazine. ECM has been distributed in the U.S. by Warner Bros. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram, worldwide. Its album covers were profiled in two books: ''Sleeves of Desire'' and ''Windfall Light'', both published by Lars Müller. History The first ECM release produced by Manfred Scheffner was pianist Mal Waldron's 1969 recording '' Free at Last''. The label went on to release recordings by many prominent jazz musicians, including Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Chick ...
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Piirpauke
Piirpauke is a Finnish musical group combining free jazz, flamenco, mbalax, Arabesque, carnatic, romantic, modern, classical, humppa, impressionist, hindustani, salsa, Amharic, Lappjoik, Tibetan, Balkan, Karelian, Finnish, national romantic and rock music influences (among others) in their compositions. The band was founded in 1974 by the keyboardist-saxophonist Sakari Kukko, who is the only original member left in the band today. In addition to a large number of Finnish musicians, several musicians from various countries have also played in Piirpauke. The name "Piirpauke" comes from an Sakari Kukko's Karelian father and means a noise or a racket. The band has released 20 studio albums as well as several live and compilation albums. In October 2010 their album Koli peaked number one at the World Music Charts Europe.October 2010
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2017 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2017. Events January * 12 ** The 16th All Ears festival started in Oslo (January 12–15). ** The 3rd annual Tucson Jazz Festival started in Tucson, Arizona (January 12 – 22). * 20 – The 36th annual Djangofestival started on Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway (January 20 – 21). * 21 – Hot Club de Norvège headline at the annual Djangofestival at Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway. * 28 – Nils Petter Molvær is presented as winner of the 2016 Spellemannprisen Jazz award. February * 1 – The 6th Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (February 1 – 4). * 2 – The 19th Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 2–5). * 9 – The 12th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (February 9 – 11). March * 3 – The 13th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 3 – 5). * 31 – The 18th Cape Town International Jazz Festival started in C ...
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2013 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2013. Events January * 23 – The 2nd Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 23 – 27). * 24 – The 8th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 24 – 27). * 31 – The 15th Polarjazz Festival 2013 started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 31 – February 7). February March * 1 – The 9th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 1 – 3). * 22 – The 40th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 22 – 24). * 23 ** Tore Brunborg was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2013 as well as the Buddyprisen 2012 at Vossajazz. ** Stian Carstensen performed the commissioned work ''Flipp'' for Vossajazz 2013. April * 24 – The 19th SoddJazz 2013 started in Inderøy, Norway (April 24 – 28). * 26 – The 2nd Torino Jazz Festival started in Turin (April 26 – May 1). * 30 – The International Jazz Day. May * 17 – The 42nd Moers Festival started in ...
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