Bendik Baksaas (born 28 November 1991) is a jazz and electronica musician who has got some attention in the recent past, including through performances at places like Turkish Delight, Brukbar and
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Career
Baksaas was born in
Oslo
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. He has played with the electronica comet
Mathias Stubø
Mathias Stubø (born 6 April 1992 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician and DJ in the genre electronica, also known as Proviant Audio. He is the son of jazz vocalist Kjersti Stubø, grandson of jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø and nephew o ...
from
Vestfold
Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...
, and his Proviant Audio. In 2012 he released his debut album with Bendik Baksaas Band with
David Aleksander Sjølie
David Aleksander Sjølie (born 7 May 1988) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist, known from bands like Mopti, married 31 July 2014, to the jazz singer Anja Eline Skybakmoen.
Career
Sjølie was born in Oslo, where he lives and works as a musician, pro ...
and
Jonas Barsten Johnsen, an EP on the Trondheim-based record label Dayladore Collective. Unlike the band's little ambitious name, the debut album of the band got the eloquently name ''The Shape Of Beats To Come'' (2012), undoubtedly inspired by the chord progression free and simultaneous improvised album ''The Shape Of Jazz To Come'' (1959), by free jazz saxophonist
Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...
. The similarity of Coleman genre defining release however stops there. The material that is presented on the five track and just over twenty minutes long release, fits nicely into the aesthetics that have been funded by Mathias Stubø and Proviant Audio In the recent past (2015), but is probably also inspired by sample delighted hiphop magicians J Dilla, and smooth jazz guitarists such as
George Benson
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A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, pla ...
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Discography
*2012: ''The Shape Of Beats To Come'' (Dayladore Collective)
*2013: ''1991'' (Aspén Records)
References
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Norwegian jazz musicians
Norwegian DJs
Norwegian electronic musicians
Norwegian record producers
Norwegian composers
Norwegian male composers
Musicians from Oslo
1991 births
Living people
Electronic dance music DJs
Male jazz musicians
Jazzland Recordings (1997) artists