Pål Thowsen (born 15 July 1955) is a Norwegian jazz drummer.
He has released several solo albums and received two
Spellemannprisen
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awards.
Career
Thowsen was born in
Lillestrøm
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, and started his career in the early 1970s as a musician in
Arild Andersen
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's quartet, finding international success throughout the decade. At the same time he was a member of the
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. In 1973 he collaborated for the first time with jazz guitarist
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and a member of the
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/ Eberson / Thowsen /
Kjellemyr,
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and Metropolitan.
Thowsen, along with
Jon Christensen, won the 1977 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for the album ''No Time for Time'', and the 1979 Spellmanprisen for jazz album for his album ''Surprise''.
Selected discography
*''No Time for Time'' (1976) (with Jon Christensen)
*''Surprise'' (1979)
*''Carnival'' (1981)
*''Sympathy'' (1983)
*''Call Me Stranger'' (1986) (with
Tor Endresen
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)
*''Life Goes On'' (1988) (with Tor Endresen)
*''Collection'' (1992)
*''...The Rest Is Rumors'' (2002)
References
External links
*
Biography from the Norwegian Jazz Archives
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1955 births
Living people
Norwegian jazz composers
20th-century Norwegian drummers
21st-century Norwegian drummers
Norwegian jazz drummers
Male drummers
Norwegian percussionists
People from Skedsmo
Musicians from Lillestrøm
Spellemannprisen winners
Taurus Records artists
20th-century drummers
Male jazz composers
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Jazzpunkensemblet members