Bjørn Klakegg (born 30 January 1958 in
Skien
Skien () is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø. The administrative ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
) is a
Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer, known from a number of recordings and cooperations with the likes of
Nils Petter Molvær
Nils Petter Molvær (), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...
,
Sverre Gjørvad
Sverre Gjørvad (born 26 October 1966 in Stathelle, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums) and composer. He is known for participating in establishing the SoddJazz festival and recording with various notable musicians including Live Maria ...
,
Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk,
Frode Alnæs
Frode Alnæs (born 3 March 1959) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known from cooperation with international artists like Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Henning ...
,
Knut Værnes
Knut Værnes (born 1 April 1954) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar), composer and band leader, known from several recordings in the jazz rock genre. He grew up at Bøler in Oslo, where he became an accomplished guitarist.
Career
Værnes was ...
,
Knut Reiersrud
Knut Reiersrud (born 12 February 1961) is a Norwegian blues guitarist. His work also incorporates elements of Norwegian traditional music and African music. Reiersrud has recorded and played with David Lindley, the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Rickie ...
,
Hanne Hukkelberg
Hanne Hukkelberg (born 17 April 1979) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer from Kongsberg, Norway.
Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth, she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz, rock, ...
,
Tove Karoline Knutsen
Tove Karoline Knutsen (born 14 January 1951 in Torsken) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 2005.
She graduated as cand.philol. in 1982, and spent large parts of her caree ...
,
Terje Gewelt
Terje Gewelt (born 8 June 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
Career
Gewelt was born in Oslo and raised in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast of Norway. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to elect ...
and
Tore Brunborg
Tore Brunborg (born 20 May 1960) is a Norwegians, 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 g ...
.
Career
With his brother, the jazz pianist
Rune Klakegg
Rune Klakegg (born 19 April 1955 in Skien, Norway)
is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, the older brother of guitarist Bjørn Klakegg, and known from a number of recordings and jazz bands including Oslo 13, Cutting Edge, Fuzzy Logic, Ou ...
, he played in bands led by
Guttorm Guttormsen
Guttorm Guttormsen (born 28 June 1950) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone), arranger and composer.
Career
Guttormsen was born in Mo i Rana. After moving to Oslo (1969), he appeared with Ivar Antonsen's Band at «Fe ...
when he was young. He studied music at "Toneheim folkehøgskole" (1978) and on the Jazz program at
Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1979–83). During his studies he established his own bands with among others his fellow students
Nils Petter Molvær
Nils Petter Molvær (), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...
,
Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk,
Frode Alnæs
Frode Alnæs (born 3 March 1959) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known from cooperation with international artists like Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Henning ...
and
Tore Brunborg
Tore Brunborg (born 20 May 1960) is a Norwegians, 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 g ...
, before he settled in
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) 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 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
and joined
Sun
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,
Extended Noise,
Out to Lunch and
Nuku
Nuku was a traditional province of the island of Hiva Oa in pre-European times. It did not function as a unified governmental unit, but rather as a confederation of local tribes during times of war with tribes from Hiva Oa's other province, Pepa ...
. He plays in the
Sverre Gjørvad Quartett and has otherwise contributed to releases by
Tove Karoline Knutsen
Tove Karoline Knutsen (born 14 January 1951 in Torsken) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 2005.
She graduated as cand.philol. in 1982, and spent large parts of her caree ...
, Elsa Kvamme (1990) and
Terje Gewelt
Terje Gewelt (born 8 June 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
Career
Gewelt was born in Oslo and raised in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast of Norway. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to elect ...
(2004 and 2007). He leads his own quartet with Harald Skullerud (percussion), Andreas Utnem (keyboards) and Per Willy Aaserud (trumpet). In recent years he has toured with
Rikskonsertene
Concerts Norway () was established in 1967 on the initiative of the Arts Council Norway (), with its main purpose described as follows: "Concerts Norway is to make living music of high artistic quality accessible to all people in the country." The ...
, in the production ''På hodet og bak frem'', together with
Celio de Carvalho and
Nils Einar Vinjor, and contributed to the
Ingun Bjørnsgaard projects with his compositions (together with
Rolf Wallin). He has been a musician for several of NRK Radio Theatre's radio drama. He also plays in the group "Needlepoint" in collaboration with
David Wallumrød,
Nikolai Eilertsen
Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to:
People Royalty
* Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
* Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Niko ...
(bass) and
Thomas Strønen
Thomas Pohlitz Strønen (born 7 December 1972) is a Norwegian jazz drummer who has recorded more than 70 albums. He has worked with Iain Ballamy, Arve Henriksen, Mats Eilertsen, Ashley Slater, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Nils Petter Molva ...
(drums), releasing the albums ''The Woods Are Not What They Seem'' (2010), ''Outside The Screen'' (2012) and ''Aimless Mary'' (2015).
Discography
Solo albums
*1998: ''Gloria'' (
Curling Legs
__NOTOC__
Curling Legs Productions A/S (established 1992 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label with a catalogue encompassing all styles of jazz and improvised music. It was started by Knut Værnes and Morten Halle to release their own m ...
), with his own compositions together with Harald Skullerud
*1999: ''Swing Waltz'' (Curling Legs)
*2005: ''A day with no plans at all'' (Curling Legs), with his own compositions together with Harald Skullerud and Kåre Vestrheim
*2008: ''Sidewalk View'' (BJK-music), with his own compositions together with Harald Skullerud, Andreas Utnem and Per Willy Aaserud
Collaborative works
;Within
Out to Lunch
*1988: ''Out to Lunch'' (
Odin Records
Odin Records is a Norwegian jazz record company and label founded in 1981 by the Norwegian Jazz Federation, when there were not many independent record labels in Norway. Only major international record companies were to be found in Oslo, so Od ...
)
;With
Needlepoint
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*2010: ''The Woods Are Not What They Seem'' (BJK Music)
*2012: ''Outside The Screen'' (BJK Music)
*2015: ''Aimless Mary'' (BJK Music)
*2018: ''The Diary of Robert Reverie'' (BJK Music)
*2021: ''Walking up That Valley'' (BJK Music)
;With
Karin Krog
Karin Krog (born 15 May 1937) is a Norwegian Vocal jazz, jazz singer.
Life and career
Krog began singing jazz as a teenager and attracted attention while performing in jam sessions in Oslo. In 1955, she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen ...
&
John Surman
John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, Clarinet family, clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for danc ...
*2013: ''
Songs About This And That'' (
Meantime Records
Karin Krog (born 15 May 1937) is a Norwegian jazz singer.
Life and career
Krog began singing jazz as a teenager and attracted attention while performing in jam sessions in Oslo. In 1955, she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing i ...
), including with
Ivar Kolve,
Terje Gewelt
Terje Gewelt (born 8 June 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
Career
Gewelt was born in Oslo and raised in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast of Norway. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to elect ...
&
Tom Olstad
Tom Olstad (born 13 April 1953 in Gjøvik, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz drummer who has performed on many recordings.
Career
Olstad has lived in Oslo since 1973, when he started his musical studies at Østlandets Musikkonservatorium and Unive ...
;With other projects
*1992: ''Det absolutte nullpunkt'' (Curling Legs), within
Nuku
Nuku was a traditional province of the island of Hiva Oa in pre-European times. It did not function as a unified governmental unit, but rather as a confederation of local tribes during times of war with tribes from Hiva Oa's other province, Pepa ...
*2000: ''4G'' (Curling Legs), with
Frode Alnæs
Frode Alnæs (born 3 March 1959) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known from cooperation with international artists like Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Henning ...
,
Knut Værnes
Knut Værnes (born 1 April 1954) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar), composer and band leader, known from several recordings in the jazz rock genre. He grew up at Bøler in Oslo, where he became an accomplished guitarist.
Career
Værnes was ...
and
Knut Reiersrud
Knut Reiersrud (born 12 February 1961) is a Norwegian blues guitarist. His work also incorporates elements of Norwegian traditional music and African music. Reiersrud has recorded and played with David Lindley, the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Rickie ...
*2006: ''Sundslegen, herja og naken'' (Tylden & Co.), with
Lars Klevstrand
Lars Klevstrand (born 30 September 1949) is a Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer and actor. He was born in Drammen, Buskerud, the son of Olav Klevstrand and Grethe Sofie Larsen, and was brought up in Bærum.
Career
His debut album was ''V ...
,
Rune Klakegg
Rune Klakegg (born 19 April 1955 in Skien, Norway)
is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, the older brother of guitarist Bjørn Klakegg, and known from a number of recordings and jazz bands including Oslo 13, Cutting Edge, Fuzzy Logic, Ou ...
& Jan Olav Renvåg
*2007: ''Rykestrasse 68'' (Nettwerk), with
Hanne Hukkelberg
Hanne Hukkelberg (born 17 April 1979) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer from Kongsberg, Norway.
Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth, she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz, rock, ...
*2009: ''Lost Animals (2009), with
Vidar Johansen Quartet
*2013: ''Spindrift'' (Resonant Music), with
Terje Gewelt
Terje Gewelt (born 8 June 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).
Career
Gewelt was born in Oslo and raised in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast of Norway. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to elect ...
References
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20th-century Norwegian guitarists
21st-century Norwegian guitarists
Norwegian jazz guitarists
Norwegian jazz composers
Norwegian male jazz composers
Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni
Musicians from Skien
1958 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Needlepoint (band) members