Jonas Howden Sjøvaag (born 3 November 1978 in

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, Germany) is a Norwegian jazz drummer.

Biography

Sjøvaag started playing piano at an early age. He had his solo debut with Vestfold Youth Symphony Orchestra at age 11, started playing drums at age 10, and switched main focus to jazz drums at age 17. He graduated at the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...

with a

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in improvised music in 2008. From 2003 he has been regular drummer of the Eple Trio.

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums

*2001: ''Navyelectre 1 (Shipwreckords)'' *2008: ''Navyelectre The Mourning (Shipwreckords)'' *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: ''Navyelectre Large Ensemble'' (Shipwreckords)

Collaborations

; Eple Trio *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

: ''Made this'' (

NorCD NorCD (established 1991 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label for folk, jazz, world music and improvisational music, led by the founder saxophonist and composer Karl Seglem. NorCD is distributed through Musikkoperatørene, and is a member ...

) *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: ''The Widening Sphere Of Influence'' (NorCD) *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

:''In The Clearing'' / ''In The Cavern'' (double album) (NorCD) *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

: ''Universal Cycle'' (Shipwreckords) ; Kallerdahl / Seglem / Ulvo /

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/ Sjøvaag *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: ''Skoddeheimen'' (NorCD) ;

Karl Seglem Karl Seglem (born 8 July 1961) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and bukkehorn), composer and producer, known from a series of combined jazz and traditional music releases, as well as leading his own record label NorCD from 1991. Care ...

*2007: NorskJazz.no (Ozella Records) *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

: ''NyeSongar.no'' (Ozella Records) *2017: ''Nordic Balm'' (Ozella Records)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sjovaag, Jonas Howden 1978 births Living people Jazz musicians from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian drummers 21st-century Norwegian drummers Norwegian jazz drummers Norwegian male drummers Norwegian jazz composers Avant-garde jazz musicians Norwegian Academy of Music alumni NorCD artists Norwegian male jazz composers 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Eple Trio members