Frode Nymo (born 27 November 1975), is a Norwegian jazz musician (

alto Saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

), and older brother of the tenor sax. player

Atle Nymo Atle Nymo (born 9 June 1977) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet), and the younger brother of Jazz saxophonist Frode Nymo. He is known for his contributions with the orchestras Motif (band), Motif, one of his main pro ...

Career

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Nymo was born in

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and brought up in

Valnesfjord Straumsnes or Valnesfjord is a village in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Valnesfjord area of Fauske. The Fauske (town), town of Fauske lies to the east and the Bodø (town), town of Bodø to the west. The ...

, near

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. Early in his career, he was a member of the Bodø Big Band led by Henning Gravrok, and he is a graduate of the Jazz Program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium, where he and fellow students established Urban Connection, awarded the title of "Young Jazz Musicians of the Year" in 1998, at Norway's prestigious Molde International Jazz Festival, forerunner of today's Jazz Intro Award, and

Spellemannprisen The Spellemannprisen (also referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards) is a Norwegian music award ceremony presented by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry#Local associations, IFPI Norge and :no:FONO, FONO. It was first awarded i ...

2001. The result have been three album releases, and touring under the auspices of the Moldejazz, where they visited several of the major festivals in Europe, like the

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, the

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, and the Istanbul Jazz Festival amongst others, as well as being Norway's contribution EBU Festival in the Czech and Norwegian jazz forums envoys to the jazz festival in the

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. With his brother, he released the album ''Inner Urge'' (2004), and was honored "This year's attention" in

1997.

Honors

*"This year's attention" in

1997 *"Young Jazz Musicians of the Year" 1998 at

Moldejazz Molde International Jazz Festival (MIJF) or Moldejazz (established 1961 in Molde Municipality) takes place annually in July, and is known as one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe. It was initiated by the local Storyville Jazz Club. Since 1 ...

2001 in the class Jazz, for the album ''Urban Connection'' (2001), within Urban Connection

Discography (in selection)

Within Urban Connection

*2001: '' Urban Connection'' (Bergland Productions) *2002: '' French Only'' (Bergland Productions) *2004: '' UC 3'' (Bergland Productions)

Within "Atle Nymo and Frode Nymo Quartet"

*2004: ''Inner Urge'' (

Taurus Records The following is a summary of the Taurus Records albums. Taurus is a Norwegian record label with records published by the parent label Gemini Records Gemini Records (initiated 1984 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label founded and run by B ...

), feat.

Roger Kellaway Roger Kellaway (born November 1, 1939) is an American composer, arranger and jazz pianist who has recorded over 250 albums, and composed over 20 film scores Life and career Kellaway was born in Waban, Massachusetts, United States. He is an alum ...

, with additional

Håkon Mjåset Johansen Håkon Mjåset Johansen (born 1 August 1975 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegians, Norwegian jazz musician, jazz drummer and composer, known from playing with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra featuring Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, cooperations wit ...

(drums) and

Ole Morten Vågan Ole Morten Vågan (born 8 May 1979) is a Norwegians, Norwegian jazz musician and composer (double bass, upright bass), and the older brother of guitarist Petter Vågan. He is known from several recordings and is currently acting as artistic dir ...

(bass)

Within Børre Dalhaug's "Bigbandblast"

*2004: ''

Bigbandblast! ''Bigbandblast!'' (released 24 August 2004 by Real Music Records in Oslo) is an album by the big band Bigbandblast led by Børre Dalhaug. Reception ''Bigbandblast!'' sounds like the drummer of The Real Thing has assembled a hard-swinging bi ...

'' (Real Records) ;With Erik Wesseltoft *2013: ''To Someone I Knew'' (Normann Records)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nymo, Frode Norwegian jazz saxophonists Norwegian jazz composers Taurus Records artists Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Spellemannprisen winners Musicians from Fauske 1975 births Living people People from Egersund 21st-century Norwegian saxophonists Ensemble Denada members Trondheim Jazz Orchestra members Urban Connection members