Continental Europe
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2011 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2011 in Music of Norway, Norwegian music.
Events
January
* 26 – The very first Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø (January 26–29).
* 28
** Nordlysfestivalen started in Troms ...
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2011 in South Korean music
The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in South Korea.
Award shows and festivals Award ceremonies
Festivals
Debuting and disbanded in 2011
Debuting groups
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2011 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2011.
Events
January
* 20 – The 6th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 20 – 23).
* 26 – The first Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 26 ...
Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his Serialism, serial and electronic music.
Biography
Babbitt was born in Philadelphia t ...
(94), American jazz composer, music theorist, and teacher.
; February
* 3 –
Eline Nygaard Riisnæs
Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (5 July 1913 – 3 February 2011) was a Norwegian pianist and musicologist at UiO, mother of the pianist and piano pedagog Anne Eline Riisnæs (1951-), and the saxophonists Knut Riisnæs (1945-) and Odd Riisnæs (1953- ...
(87), Norwegian pianist and musicologist.
* 14 –
George Shearing
Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 t ...
(91), British jazz pianist.
* 22 –
Beau Dollar
William Hargis Bowman, Jr. (April 21, 1941 – February 22, 2011), better known by his stage name Beau Dollar, was an American soul vocalist and drummer for King Records. He performed on many studio albums for various artists under contract wit ...
(69), American soul-R&B singer and drummer.
;March
* 29 – Ray Herr (63), American rock guitarist (
The Ides of March
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).
; April
* 10 –
Børt-Erik Thoresen Børt-Erik Thoresen (5 May 1932 – 10 April 2011) was a Norwegian television host and folk singer.
He hosted musical programmes for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1968 to the late 1980s. He also released several records.
Thoresen wa ...
(79), Norwegian television host and folk singer.
* 22 –
Eyvind Solås
Eyvind Stauri Solås (11 May 1937 – 22 April 2011) was a Norwegian musician, composer, actor and program host in NRK, both the Norwegian television and radio.
Solås was instrumental in the establishment of the music and theater line subje ...
(74), Norwegian musician, composer, actor, and program host.
* 24 –
Dag Stokke
Dag Stokke (1 April 1967 – 27 April 2011) was a Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond. He owned an online mastering service called OnlineMaster ...
(44), Norwegian keyboardist in the band
TNT
Trinitrotoluene (), more commonly known as TNT, more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. TNT is occasionally used as a reagen ...
, church organist and mastering engineer (cancer).
* 26 –
Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "San Francisco Bay Blues", "Poetry Man", "Harpo's Blues", and her credited g ...
(60), American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
; May
* 14 – Don Wood (61), American rock drummer (
The Gants
The Gants was an American garage rock band that formed in 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the cultural and geographic Deep South.
History
The Kingsmen – a different band from the Kingsmen that had a major hit with "Louie Louie" in the ...
)
* 15 – Bob Flanigan (84), American jazz tenor vocalist and founding member of
The Four Freshmen
The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, and The Mel-Tones, founded in the barbershop tradition. The singers accom ...
.
* 31 –
Sølvi Wang
Sølvi Valborg Wang (28 August 1929 – 31 May 2011) was a Norwegian singer, actress and comedian.
She was born in Bærum, Akershus, to the jazz musician Yngvar Wang and the singer Marie Gulbrandsen. Already at an early age she sang with ...
(81), Norwegian singer and actress.
; June
* 3 –
Andrew Gold
Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop rock, pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold played on scor ...
(59), American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger
; July
* 23 –
Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues and jazz.
A membe ...
(27), English rock, soul and jazz singer, and songwriter.
* 24 –
Harald Johnsen
Harald Gill Johnsen (19 March 1970 – 24 July 2011) was a Norwegian jazz double bassist, known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio, and a series of recordings with such as Sonny Simmons, Sigurd ...
(41), Norwegian bassist (heart attack).
* 26 – Frank Foster (82), American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer.
; August
* 11 –
Jani Lane
Jani Lane (born John Kennedy Oswald; February 1, 1964 – August 11, 2011) was an American singer and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the glam metal band Warrant. From Hollywood, California, the band experienced su ...
(47), American metal singer and songwriter ( Warrant).
; September
* 4 –
Hilde Heltberg
Hilde Heltberg (30 September 1959 – 4 September 2011) was a Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oslo, Norway. Career
Heltberg started her career in the late 70s when she entered a talent competition judged by Stein Ove Berg, who ...
(51), singer songwriter (cancer).
* 7 –
Eddie Marshall
Edwin "Eddie" Marshall (April 13, 1938 – September 7, 2011Obituary ) was an American (73), American drummer.
* 19 –
Johnny Răducanu
Johnny Răducanu (born Răducan Crețu; 1 December 1931 – 19 September 2011) was a Romanian jazz pianist of Romani ethnic background, whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century.
He was born in Brăila and started ...
(79), Romanian pianist.
* 21 – John Larson (61), American trumpeter (
The Ides of March
The Ides of March (; la, Idus Martiae, Late Latin: ) is the 74th day in the Roman calendar, corresponding to 15 March. It was marked by several Religion in ancient Rome, religious observances and was notable in Rome as a deadline for settling d ...
).
; October
* 8 –
Roger Williams
Roger Williams (21 September 1603between 27 January and 15 March 1683) was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation ...
(87), American pianist.
; November
* 19 – Russell Garcia (95), American composer and music arranger.
* 22 –
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.
He first came to prominence in the l ...
(80), American guitarist.
; December
* 2 –
Bill Tapia
William Tapia (January 1, 1908 – December 2, 2011), known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy", was an American musician, born to Portuguese parents. At age 8, Tapia was already a professional musician, playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" for World War ...
(103), American guitarist.
* 17 –
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora GCIH (; 27 August 194117 December 2011), more commonly known as Cize, was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album ''Voz d'Amor''. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without ...
(70), Cape Verdean singer.
* 20 –
Sean Bonniwell
Thomas Harvey "Sean" Bonniwell (August 16, 1940 – December 20, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter/guitarist, who was known as the creative force behind the 1960s garage rock band, The Music Machine.
Bonniwell was quoted in Richie Unterb ...
(71), American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (
The Music Machine
The Music Machine was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1966. Fronted by chief songwriter and lead vocalist Sean Bonniwell, the band cultivated a characteristically dark and rebellious image reflected in an untamed mus ...
).
See also
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Women in music
Women in music include women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists, and in other musical professions. Also, it describes music movements (e ...