HOME





Bodil Niska
Bodil Aileen Niska (born 21 August 1954 in Vadsø, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist known for her recordings of jazz standards. Career Raised in Hammerfest ,she was taught music by her father, the accordion player Aksel Niska, and studied under the guidance of Kjell Bartholdsen, and ran the jazz club "Montenegro" (1979–89). After moving southward in Norway in 1990, Niska collaborated within the trio "Girl Talk" from 1992, the other members being Tine Asmundsen (double bass) and Elizabeth Walker. They recorded the album ''Talkin' Jazz'' (1996). She formed the Bodil Niska Quartet, including Per Husby (piano), Stig Hvalryg (bass) and Roger Johansen (drums), at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2005. She is also known for her collaboration with Pete Brown Trio, including Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen. Niska has established the "Bare Jazz" store in Oslo, and a record label by the same name. For her work she received "Sildajazzprisen" in 2005 and the Oslo Jazz Festival award " ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Vadsø
Vadsø (; sme, Čáhcesuolu; fkv, Vesisaari) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark County, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vadsø, which was the administrative centre of the former Finnmark county. Other settlements in Vadsø include Ekkerøy, Kiby, Krampenes, Skallelv, Valen, and Vestre Jakobselv. The municipality is the 83rd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Vadsø is the 170th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 5,568. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 9.1% over the previous 10-year period. Economy: the service industries have more impact on employment than the total of farming, fishing and the manufacturing industy. The city has suppliers to the regional construction industries, including a concrete works. One bookstore exists. General information The village of Vadsø was granted town status in 1833. In 1838, the town of Vadsø and t ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Sildajazz
Sildajazz is a jazz festival, which is held annually on the second weekend of August, in Haugesund, Norway. The inaugural festival was in 1987. Both domestic and international artists participate at the festival and each year an award Sildjazzprisen is given to a Norwegian jazz musician or band. The festival is named after the Norwegian word for herring Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Ocea ... (sild). The reason for this can be found in the rich fishing heritage of past days, and the influence that fishing had on the creation of the city of Haugesund itself. External linksSildajazz home page Jazz festivals in Norway Haugesund Culture in Rogaland Music festivals established in 1987 Annual events in Norway Summer events in Norway {{Norway-stub ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Sildajazzprisen
Sildajazzprisen awarded by the company Statoil to a Norwegian jazz musician or group. The award consists of a sum of money and a picture signed the year Sildajazz artist. Statoil sildajazz Prize was first awarded in 2000. Award Winners *2000: The Brazz Brothers, from Langevåg *2001: Egil Kapstad, from Kristiansand *2002: Svein Olav Herstad, from Haugesund *2003: Dag Arnesen, from Bergen *2004: Alf Wilhelm Lundberg, from Haugesund *2005: Bodil Niska, from Oslo *2006: Staffan William-Olsson, from Oslo *2007: Christina Bjordal, from Haugesund *2008: Olav Dale, from Voss *2009: Sigurd Ulveseth, from Bergen *2010: Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, from Haugesund *2011: Marius Neset Marius Søfteland Neset (born 2 January 1985 in Os, Hordaland) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) living in Copenhagen. He is known from collaborations within the jazz bands "People Are Machines", "Kaktusch", " JazzKamikaze" and Django B ..., from Os *2012: Marte Maaland Eberson, from Bergen ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Alf Wilhelm Lundberg
Alf Wilhelm Lundberg (born 8 May 1979 in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar and piano) and composer. Career Lundberg studied music on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium, where he earned specialization in arranging and composition. In 2003 Lundberg was awarded the first prize at the "Umbria Jazz Clinics" in Italia as guitarist in a strong competition. He has subsequently also studied guitar under the guidance of Adam Rogers in New York and Nelson Veras in Paris. Lundberg has toured England, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Italy and France with bands "All Strings Trio", "Faces" and "Kofi/Makowski Quartet", and played on some of the biggest jazz festivals in Europe, like Kongsberg Jazzfestival, London Jazz Festival and Umbria Jazz. He has also won Sildajazzprisen and the "Haugesund Kommunes Kulturstipend" in 2004. Has been described as one of the best guitarists in Norway and has been compared to jazz and classical giants like Egberto Gismonti, Keith ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) is a Norwegian company and record label, founded in 1974 by Erik Hillestad. Among the musicians who have issued records on the label are Ketil Bjørnstad, Kari Bremnes, Erik Bye, Ole Paus, Sigvart Dagsland, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Knut Reiersrud, Deeyah and SKRUK. Artists * *Arild Andersen *Arne Domnérus *Carola *Dronning Mauds Land * Elle Melle *Erik Bye *Farmers Market *Henning Sommerro * Iver Kleive * Kari Bremnes *Karoline Krüger * Katia Cardenal *Kjetil Bjerkestrand *Knut Reiersrud * Lars Bremnes *Lars Lillo-Stenberg *Lill Lindfors *Maria Solheim *Mahsa Vahdat *Morten Harket *Ole Paus *Rim Banna *Sigvart Dagsland *SKRUK * Sondre Bratland * Susanne Lundeng *Tom Russel *Tore Brunborg See also * Kulturkirken Jakob * ''Lullabies from the Axis of Evil ''Lullabies from the Axis of Evil'' (2004) is an album collecting traditional lullabies sung by women from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea ("the axis of evil"), as well as Syria, Libya, and Cuba ("beyond ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Staffan William-Olsson
Staffan William-Olsson (born 13 December 1959) is a Swedish jazz guitarist in the band The Real Thing who has worked with Bob Berg, Lee Konitz, and Palle Mikkelborg. Career He played piano, guitar and drums already at the age of 7, and studied classical piano with a jazz-oriented teacher. Eventually he was oriented towards the guitar, with the blues and rock music as main sources of influence ( Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin as main models). When he discovered jazz-rock, Weather Report, John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth among others became the new sources of inspiration. George Benson's record ''Bad Benson'' was a turning point, it opened up his ears for the clean, undistorted guitar sound, and guitarists like Pat Martino was a great influence. William-Olsson was after classical piano studies at Göteborg Musikhögskola (he is autodidact guitarist), the replacement for Ulf Wakenius in the Swedish fusion band Hawk on Flight, and also collaborated with su ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Paul Wagnberg
Paul (Palle) Wagnberg (born 25 April 1961 in Norrköping, Sweden) is a Swedish–Norwegian jazz musician, mostly known for his jazz-organ playing. He also sings and plays the piano in addition to composing. Career Wagnberg was born in Norrköping, Sweden. Since 1985 he has been playing professionally with his Hammond B3 organ. He is in particular known for his footwork on the bass pedals. He is known for his collaborations within the Swedish-Norwegian jazz quartet The Real Thing, comprising Wagnberg (Hammond B3 organ), Staffan William-Olsson (guitar), Børre Dalhaug (drums) and the late Sigurd Køhn (saxophone). The Real Thing is currently put on hold after Køhn died in 2004 in Thailand by the tsunami catastrophe. With his own trio Wagnberg has released three albums, ''Eat Meat'' (1999) with Torstein Ellingsen (drums) and Randy Johnston (guitar), ''Gone Fishing'' (2001) with Torstein Ellingsen (drums) and Frode Kjekstad (guitar) and ''Catch 22'' (2007) with Erik In 20 ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Aksel Niska
:''See Kusaila for the 7th-century Berber leader.'' Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia, a variant of Axel. People with the name include: *Aksel Agerby (1889–1942), Danish composer, organist, and music administrator *Aksel Airo (1898–1985), Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner *Aksel Andersen (1912–1977), Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist *Aksel Frederik Andersen (1891–1972), Danish mathematician *Aksel Arstal (1855–1940), Norwegian theologist, schoolteacher and geographer *Aksel Bender Madsen (1916–2000), Danish furniture designer *Aksel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral (in Engineering) *Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (born 1987), Norwegian professional football player *Aksel Bonde (1918–1996), Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics * Aksel Brehm (born 1889), Estonian politician *Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish professor of meteorology ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Pelle Hultén
Pelle may refer to: * ''Pelle'' (album), a 2000 studio album of the Italian band Punkreas * Pelle (given name) * Pelle (surname) * Pelle Pelle, a fashion brand ** "Pelle Coat", a 2023 song by Lil Durk named after the brand * An enzyme, also known as IRAK1 * A familiar form of the male given name Per * Another name of Pella (Thessaly), an ancient town * Dead (musician) (1969-1991), nicknamed Pelle, Swedish musician See also *Pell (other) Pell is a surname. Pell may also refer to: * Pell (musician) (born 1992), American rapper * Pell (''One Piece''), a minor character in the Japanese anime ''One Piece'' * Pell Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia * Pell Grant, an American f ...
{{disambiguation ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Bjørn Alterhaug
Bjørn Alterhaug (born 3 June 1945) is a Norwegian jazz bassist, arranger, composer and professor of music. Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) Career Alterhaug was born in Mo i Rana, Norway. He is one of the grand masters among European bassplayers and has been leading an international career in jazz since the late 1960s. He has played and worked with a great number of international greats such as Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Chet Baker, Thorgeir Stubø, Joe Henderson, Lucky Thompson, Sheila Jordan, Vigleik Storaas, Karin Krog, John Surman, Ben Webster and Clark Terry. He continues to lead his post as a professor at the Institute of Music at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet in Trondheim, Norway and has taught on the Jazz programme there since the start in 1979. Honors *''Buddyprisen'' 1975 *Rana municipality Culture Prize 1975 *This year's jazz musicians in Norway 1975 . *Spellemannprisen 1980 in the class jazz for the album ''Moments'' (1979) *Gammleng-prisen 1989 * ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]