Torstein Ellingsen (born 7 August 1966) is a Norwegian drummer and music producer, known from a series of album recordings.

Career

Ellingsen was born in Oslo and started his career playing in his older brother's band The Royal Rakes Jazzband (1980), collaborated within Christiania Jazzband (1981), and was a part of "Caledonia Jazzband" (1982–1998), with The Real Thing (1995–1998 og 2010–2014), with Magnolia Jazzband (from 1999), and with his Danish wife and singer

Majken Christiansen Majken Christiansen (born 14 September 1967) is a Danish jazz vocalist, known from several releases and jazz standard performances. Biography Christiansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She led the band Fjeldtetten, including Per Rick, Ebbe L ...

(from 2001). Ellingsen lead his own band The Sinatra Songbook (from 1999) along with jazz singer Ingar Kristiansen. He plays in these bands: Prima Vista Social Club, Rubber Soul Quartet and Gigaphonics. He has also recorded albums with Paul Wagnberg Trio, Rune Nicolaysen Trio, Anders Aarum Trio, Tor Einar Bekken, Sandvika Storband, Ola Kvernberg, Harald Bergersen, Anne Marte Slinning and Jan Werner. He has also collaborated with musicians like

Sigurd Køhn Sigurd Eystein Køhn (6 August 1959 – 26 December 2004) was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer. Career Køhn was born in Kristiansand, Norway, and started playing the violin and the clarinet at the age of 9, and begun playing the alt ...

, Georg Reiss,

Norbert Susemihl Norbert Susemihl (born August 26, 1956) is a German trumpeter, drummer, singer, and bandleader. He is a promoter of New Orleans Jazz and New Orleans Music. Early years Susemihl grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He started playing music at the age of ...

, Halvdan Sivertsen and Øystein Sunde. Ellingsen holds a master's degree in political science at the University of Oslo (1994) and diploma degree in Music Management from

Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium The Royal Academy of Music (Danish: ''Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium'') in Aarhus and Aalborg, Denmark, is a conservatoire and state institution under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture (Denmark), Danish Ministry of Culture, charged with resp ...

in Århus, Denmark (2012). He was the host of the TV program "Bandbox" at NRK (1997), worked as a jazz writer and editor of the jazz magazine Jazznytt (2001–02). He also was a communications consultant in

Rikskonsertene Concerts Norway ( no, Rikskonsertene) was established in 1967 on the initiative of the Arts Council Norway ( no, Norsk kulturråd), with its main purpose described as follows: "Concerts Norway is to make living music of high artistic quality acces ...

in Oslo (1998–2001) and was employed as a concert producer the same place until 2016 where he facilitates concerts for children and young audiences. Ellingsen has published the norwegian language book Rosinen i pølsa (Kagge, 2005) with

Knut Lystad Knut Ove Lystad (born 31 January 1946) is a Norwegian actor, singer, translator, screenwriter, comedian and occasional director, best known from the comedy trio KLM, alongside Trond Kirkvaag and Lars Mjøen. Career Lystad and Mjøen began their ...

and Rune Semundseth.

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums

*2001: ''The Sinatra Songbook'' ( Curling Legs)

Collaborations

;With Caledonia Jazzband *1985: ''Moods of New Orleans'' (

Hot Club Records Hot Club Records is a jazz record label established 1982, by guitarist Jon Larsen in Oslo, Norway.Dregni, Michael (2008) ''Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing'', OUP USA, , p. 229 The label has released over 350 ...

) *1987: ''Walkin (Hot Club Records), with Wendell Brunious *1991: ''Is You Or Is You Ain't'' (Hot Club Records), with Norbert Susemihl *1997: ''Creole Nights'' (Hot Club Records), with Geoff Bull ;With Garden of Delight *1987: ''Big Wheels in Emotion'' (Pale Productions) ;With The Real Thing *1995: ''Live'' (Real Records) *1997: ''Pleasure Is An Attitude'' (Real Records) *2011: ''Back on Track'' (Real Records) ;With Sandvika Storband *1999: ''Lining Up!'' (SS Records) ;With Ola Kvernberg *2001: ''Violin'' (Hot Club Records) ;With Paul Wagnberg Trio *1999: ''Eat Meat'' (Real Records) *2001: ''Gone Fishing'' (Real Records) ;With Anders Aarum Trio *2001: ''The Lucky Strike'' (Hot Club Records) ;With Magnolia Jazzband *2002: ''In that Sweet Old Garden of Eden'' (MJB Recordings) ;With

*2011: ''Norbert Susemihl's Joyful Gumbo – New Orleans Reflections'' (Sumi Records) *2014: ''Norbert Susemihl – A Tribute to the Louis Armstrong All Stars – Live at Maribo Jazzfestival'' (Sumi Records)

References

External links

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Biography at JazzbasenDiscography at Jazzbasen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellingsen, Torstein 20th-century Norwegian drummers 21st-century Norwegian drummers Norwegian jazz drummers Male drummers Norwegian jazz composers 1966 births Living people Musicians from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian expatriates in Denmark 20th-century drummers Male jazz composers 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian male musicians The Real Thing (Norwegian band) members