Terje Rypdal (born 23 August 1947) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer.
He has been an important member in the
Norwegian jazz community, and has also given show concerts with guitarists
Ronni Le Tekrø
Ronni Le Tekrø (born Rolf Ågrim Tekrø, 5 October 1963) is a Norwegian guitarist best known for playing with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT and as a solo guitarist cooperating with guitarists Terje Rypdal and Mads Eriksen as "N3". LeTekr ...
and
Mads Eriksen
Mads Eriksen (born 15 July 1977) is a Norwegian cartoonist, best known for the comic strips '' M'' and ''Gnom''.
Biography
Eriksen was born in Malvik. His career in comics began in 2000, when his first comic strip, ''Gnom'', was accepted into ...
as "N3".
Career
Rypdal was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
, Norway, the son of a composer and orchestra leader.
He studied classical piano and trumpet as a child, and then taught himself to play guitar as he entered his teens.
Starting out as a
Hank Marvin
Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is widely known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows, a group which primarily performed instrumentals and was the ba ...
-influenced rock guitarist with
The Vanguards
The Vanguards were a rock band from Bærum, Norway that debuted in 1961. Although the band disbanded eight years later, members continued to reunite for appearances during the 1970s.
The Vanguards were one of Norway's most popular rock band dur ...
, Rypdal turned towards
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
in 1968 and joined
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 ...
's group and later
George Russell's sextet and orchestra.
An important step towards international attention was his participation in the
free jazz
Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during ...
festival in
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...
, Germany, in 1969, where he was part of a band led by
Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Biography
Born in ...
.
During his musical studies at
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
university and conservatory, he led the orchestra of the Norwegian version of the musical ''
Hair
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The human body, apart from areas of glabrous skin, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and f ...
''. He has often been recorded on the
ECM record label, both jazz-oriented material and classical compositions (some of which do not feature Rypdal's guitar).
His compositions "Last Nite" and "Mystery Man" were featured in the Michael Mann film ''
Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary. A thermodynamic system does not ''contain'' heat. Nevertheless, the term is al ...
'', and included on the
soundtrack of the same name.
File:Terje Rypdal 2005.jpg, Terje Rypdal in Warsaw, 2005
File:Terje Rypdal + Elephant9@51. Heineken Jazzaldia (28766660972).jpg, Rypdal in the Basque Country, 2016
Personal
Rypdal was married (1969–1985) to the Norwegian singer
Inger Lise Andersen/Rypdal, and they had two children, the auditor Daniel (1970) and the electronica musician
Marius (1977). Rypdal was married again in 1988 to Elin Kristin Bergei (born 28 May 1955). They have two children Ane Izabel (1988) and the guitarist
Jakob Rypdal (1989). They (as of 2013) live in
Tresfjord.
Discography
References
External links
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Terje Rypdal on ECM RecordsNotes on the Road Interview with Terje Rypdal
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1947 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian composers
20th-century Norwegian guitarists
20th-century guitarists
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
21st-century Norwegian composers
21st-century Norwegian guitarists
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Norwegian jazz composers
Norwegian jazz guitarists
Norwegian male guitarists
Norwegian rock guitarists
Avant-garde jazz guitarists
Avant-garde jazz musicians
ECM Records artists
Grappa Music artists
Male jazz composers
Musicians from Oslo
People from Vestnes
Spellemannprisen winners
20th-century jazz composers
21st-century jazz composers