Gard Nilssen (born 24 June 1983) is a Norwegian jazz drummer and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

, and member of the bands Bushman's Revenge and Puma.

Career

Nilssen was born 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 ...

, and got his musical education on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2003). He was voted this year's young jazz musicians in 2006 with the group Puma. Otherwise Nilssen is very active in bands like ''Bushman´s Revenge'', ''Lord Kelvin'', and ''Heidi Skjerve Kvintett''. Nilssen was chosen to represent Norway in the artist development program ''Take Five'', a music developer program promoted by the London-based concert promoter ''Serious''.

Honors

*''This year's young jazz musicians'' 2006, with the band Puma by

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and ''Norsk Jazzforum''

Discography

Solo albums

;Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity, including

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*2015: ''Firehouse'' (Clean Feed Records) *2017: ''Live in Europe'' (Clean Feed Records) *2019: ''To Whom Who Buys a Record'' (Grappa Musikkforlag AS) *2022: ''Elastic Wave'' (

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)

Band releases

;Within Puma trio including

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and

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*2007: ''Isolationism'' (Bolage Records) *2008: ''Discotheque Bitpunching'' (Bolage Records) *2009: ''Fist Full of Knuckles'' (Knuckleman Records), with

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*2010: ''Half Nelson Courtship'' (

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) ;Within Bushman's Revenge trio including Rune Nergaard and

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*2007: ''Cowboy Music'' (

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) *2009: ''You Lost Me At Hello'' (Rune Grammofon) *2010: ''Jitterbug'' (Rune Grammofon) *2012: ''A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza'' (Rune Grammofon) *2012: ''Never Mind The Botox'' (Rune Grammofon) *2013: ''Electric Komle – Live!'' (Rune Grammofon) *2016: ''Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen'' (Rune Grammofon) *2016: ''Bushman's Fire'' (Rune Grammofon), live LP with

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and

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;Within Lord Kelvin trio including

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and Erik Johannessen *2009: ''Dances In The Smoke'' (

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) *2011: ''Radio Has No Future'' (Gigafon Records) ;Within Cortex quartet including Ola Høyer, Kristoffer Berre Alberts and

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*2011: ''Resection'' (Bolage Records) *2012: ''Göteborg'' (Gigafon Records)

Collaborations

;With Marita Røstad *2007: ''Silent Sunday'' (Magica Records) ;Within Team Hegdal quartet including

and Rune Nergaard *2010: ''Vol 1'' (Øra Fonogram) *2011: ''Vol 2'' (Øra Fonogram), sextet including additional

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and

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;Within Scent Of Soil quintet including

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and Rune Nergaard *2011: ''Scent Of Soil'' (Hubro Music) ;With Obara International *2013: ''Komeda'' (For Tune) *2013: ''Live At Manggha'' (For Tune) *2015: ''Live In Mińsk Mazowiecki'' (For Tune) ;With

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and

Mathias Eick Mathias Eick (born 26 June 1979) is a Norwegian jazz musician, and the brother of the jazz musicians Johannes Eick and Trude Eick. He is mainly known from his releases on the jazz label ECM Records. His main instrument is the trumpet, but he als ...

* 2013: ''I Concentrate On You'' (

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) ;With

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and Helge Lien *2016: ''The Rose Window'' (Deutsche Media Productions), live at Theater Gütersloh ;With Maciej Obara Quartet *2017: ''Unloved'' (ECM Records) *2019: ''Three Crowns'' (ECM Records)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nilssen, Gard 1983 births Living people Musicians from Skien 20th-century Norwegian drummers 21st-century Norwegian drummers Norwegian jazz drummers Norwegian male drummers Norwegian jazz composers Avant-garde jazz musicians Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Rune Grammofon artists Hubro Music artists Norwegian male jazz composers 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Puma (band) members Bushman's Revenge members