Per Jørgensen (born 9 September 1952) is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist with trumpet as his main instrument, also known for his vocal contributions, in collaboration with

Dag Arnesen Dag Syver Arnesen (born 3 May 1950) is a Norwegian jazz pianist with a series of album releases. Career Arnesen was born in Bergen, and studied classical piano under Jiri Hlinka at the Bergen Music Conservatory and got a commitment by Den ...

Knut Kristiansen Knut Johan Bratland Kristiansen (born 14 April 1946) is a Norwegian composer and jazz musician (piano), known from Bergen jazz life primarily for his many interpretations of the music of Thelonious Monk as orchestra leader his own bands with va ...

Alex Riel Alex Riel (13 September 1940 – 9 June 2024) was a Danish jazz and rock drummer.''Jeg skal sgu sidde ved trommerne'' Af Bine Madsen. Dagbladenes Bureau, 9 February 2010. Same interview in Flensborg Avis, 17 February 2010, Side 18''Alex Riel ...

, Jon Christensen,

Jon Balke Jon Georg Balke (born 7 June 1955) is a Norwegian jazz pianist who leads the group Siwan. He is the younger brother of saxophonist Erik Balke. Career Balke started playing classical piano but switched to blues at 12, though he performs withi ...

Audun Kleive Audun Kleive (born 20 October 1961) is a Norwegian jazz drummer.) He was raised in Skien and is the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist Iver Kleive. Career Kleive began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went ...

Jan Gunnar Hoff Jan Gunnar Hoff (born 22 October 1958) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, arranger and professor, living in Bodø, known from cooperations with jazz musicians like Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Alex Acuña, Audun Kleive, Mathias Eick, John Surman ...

Marilyn Mazur Marilyn Mazur (born January 18, 1955) is an American-born Danish percussionist. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur is primarily an autodidact, but she has a degree in ...

Nils Petter Molvær Nils Petter Molvær (), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...

Bugge Wesseltoft Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, and producer, son of jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft. Career In 1989, Wesseltoft collaborated with the Knut Riisnæs Quartet and was soon after ...

, and

Terje Isungset Terje Isungset (born 4 May 1964) is a Norwegian drummer. From his background in jazz and traditional Scandinavian music, he has designed musical instruments from non-traditional materials, including ice. Career Isungset was raised in Geilo ...

. (in Norwegian)

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(in Norwegian)

Career

Jørgensen was a major voice in Bergen Jazz Community in the 1970s, with marked musical performances with bands such as Danmarksplass Rock og Jazz (trumpet and voice) with the young saxophoneplayer

Olav Dale Olav Dale (30 October 1958 – 10 October 2014) was a Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophone he played other woodwinds. He received little formal education in music, but he completed studies at the Vo ...

from

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

and the profound

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

guitarist

Ole Thomsen Ole Thomsen (born 28 November 1952 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known since 1977 as a central figure in the Bergen jazz scene. (in Norwegian) He is the older brother of guitarist Kåre Thomsen. Career The J ...

, now central member of the ''Bergen Big Band''. (in Norwegian) He was also a central member of the

Bergen Blues Band Bergen Blues Band (1974 - 1984) was a Norwegian blues band from Bergen, Norway. Biography The band was founded and led by John Magnar Bernes (vocalist and harmonica player, alias «Hungry John»), along with Per Jørgensen on guitar (replaced ...

(guitar and voice) and ''

Kvintett'', and later on 'Tamma',

JøKleBa JøKleBa (establishesd 1990 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz band with a free improvising expression. Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian) All the band members are still very active in different projects, but in recent years has played very few conce ...

Magnetic North Orchestra Magnetic North Orchestra established in Oslo, Norway (1992–2005) was a Norwegian jazz orchestra, created and led by Jon Balke. MNO was originally a jazz ensemble inspired by Oslo 13, put together with strings and percussion. As Olympic music ...

and in various duo projects with

and others. In 1991, Jørgensen was awarded "Vossajazzprisen" for his contribution to jazz in

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

, and was the same year he was elected "FNJ" (The Norwegian Jazz Musicians Federation) "Jazz Musician of the Year". From 1992, he held a Trio ("J.I.G.") in

together with

and

Ole Amund Gjersvik Ole Amund Gjersvik (born 10 December 1963) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass) and composer, central on the Bergen jazz scene and known from a number of record releases. Career Gjersvik was born in Bergen, Norway, where he studied at th ...

, in 1993 he also had a trio collaboration with

Eldbjørg Raknes Eldbjørg Raknes (born 9 February 1970 in Midsund Municipality, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz vocalist known for her a cappella vocal performances, innovative improvised vocals and electronic effects. She has collaborated with musicians such as Jo ...

and

Christian Wallumrød Christian Wallumrød (born 26 April 1971 in Kongsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (piano, organ and electronic keyboards) and composer, and is considered one of the most prominent musicians of the younger Norwegian generation, known from ...

, and toured with

(recording in 1993 released 1995, another release 2002 and one in 2004). In 1995, he was a soloist with the "Veslefrekk" at

ajazz. Jørgensen has extensive collaboration with many international performers including guitarist

Tobias Sjögren Tobias Sjögren (born 23 October 1970) is a Swedish jazz guitarist and composer, a graduate Master of Arts (1996). He is known for his solo albums, such as ''Hymn'' (1994) and ''Tobias Sjögren'' (2002), and for several collaborations. He has com ...

with ''Unspoken Songs'' and ''The Thule Spirit'' (2006), and percursjonist

with firstly ''Circular Chant'' (1995) with among others

and

Honors

*1991:

Vossajazz Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by ...

prisen, awarded for his contribution to jazz in

*1991: "Jazz Musician of the Year", awarded by "FNJ" (The Norwegian Jazz Musicians Federation) *1995:

Buddyprisen Buddyprisen (established 1956 in Oslo, Norway) is an award, given annually by the Norwegian Jazz Forum to a Norwegian jazz musician that has "been an excellent performer and significantly involved in Norwegian jazz by other means". The award was ...

*2001:

Radka Toneff Memorial Award Radka Toneff Memorial Award (established in 1993) is a Norwegian award given to individuals who are acting in the spirit of Norwegian jazz singer Radka Toneff. The award amounts to 25,000 Norwegian kroner and is managed by the Radka Toneff Memo ...

Discography

Album participations: ;With

: *

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

: ''On And On'' – (

Odin Records Odin Records is a Norwegian jazz record company and label founded in 1981 by the Norwegian Jazz Federation, when there were not many independent record labels in Norway. Only major international record companies were to be found in Oslo, so Od ...

) – trumpet, flute, vocal *

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

: ''Jøkleba!'' – (Norsk Plateproduksjon AS) – trumpet, vocal *

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

: ''Live!'' – (Curling Legs) – trumpet, vocal *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: ''Nu Jøk?'' – (

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Bob Shad for the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Cli ...

Universal Music Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum ...

Norway) – trumpet, vocal *

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 ...

: '' Outland'' (

ECM Records ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's a ...

) ;With

and

: *

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

: ''Further'' – (

ECM ECM may refer to the following: Economics and commerce * Engineering change management * Equity capital markets * Error correction model, an econometric model * European Common Market Mathematics * Lenstra's Elliptic curve method for factor ...

) – trumpet, vocals *

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

: ''Solarized'' – (Emarcy) – trumpet, vocals *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

: ''Kyanos'' – (

) – trumpet, vocals *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: ''Diverted travels'' – (

) – trumpet, vocals *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: ''Magnetic Works 1993–2001'' (

), compilation ;Duo with Tobias Sjøgren: *

: ''Unspoken Words'' – trumpet, vocals *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

: ''The Thule Spirit'' – (ToBeJazz Music) – trumpet, vocals ;With other projects: *

Secret Mission ''Secret Mission'' is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver. Plot British Army Major Peter Garnett assembles a team consisting of Captain ‘ ...

– ''Strange Afternoon'' – trumpet, citar *

and

Oslo 13 1300 Oslo (active from 1979 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian jazz band originally called Oslo 13 (1979–93), founded and operated the first two years by Bror Hagemann and continuated by Jon Balke. In 1994 the band got a joint leadership with Tr ...

– ''Nonsentration'' – trumpet *

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

Kari Bremnes Kari Bremnes (born 9 December 1956) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She got an MA in language, literature, history and theatre studies from the University of Oslo, and worked as a journalist for several years before deciding to dedicate h ...

– ''Gåte Ved Gåte'' – trumpet *

and Pulse Unit – ''Circular Chant'' (Storyville) – trumpet, vocals *

''Monk Moods'' (

) *

– ''Moving'' *

: Hans Børlie lytrics – ''Prøv å sette vinger på en stein'' *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

– ''Reise'' *

Michael Mantler Michael Mantler (born August 10, 1943) is an Austrian avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer of contemporary music. Career: United States Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria. In the early 1960s, he was a student at the Academy of Music and V ...

- ''The School of Understanding'' (

) - vocals *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Berit Opheim Berit Opheim Versto (born 18 June 1967 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, known for her interpretations of folk music. Career Opheim studied at Bergen Musikkonservatorium (1987–90) and Norges Musikkhøgskole (1990–92), and has worke ...

Bjørn Kjellemyr Bjørn Kjellemyr (born 4 December 1950 in Bamble, Norway) is a jazz double bassist, known from a variety of musical contexts like Terje Rypdal & The Chasers, Joe Henderson, Bob Berg, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Dag Arnesen, K ...

Einar Mjølsnes Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology ...

, Per Jørgensen and

Sigbjørn Apeland Sigbjørn Apeland (born 10 May 1966) is a musician (organ and Harmonium) and scientist, known from several recordings and for his work in the borderland between folk music, church music and improvisational music. Career Apeland was raised in ...

– ''Fryd'' ( Vossajazz Records) – trumpet *

: Unge Frustrerte Menn – ''Øl og Peanøtter'' – trumpet *

: Chocolate Overdose – ''Whatever'' – trumpet *

: "Headwaiter" – ''Not Goin' Anywhere'' – vocals *

Cæcilie Norby Cæcilie Norby (born 9 September 1964) is a Danish jazz and rock singer. She has performed as part of the bands ''Street Beat'', ''Frontline'', and ''One-Two''. Since the mid-1990s, she has worked as a solo artist. Career Norby was a foundin ...

– ''First Conversation'' – trumpet, vocals *

: Svein Folkvord's commissioned work for Vossajazz 2004 – ''Across'' (Vossa Jazz Records) – vocals, trumpet *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: Hildegunn Riise and

Edvard Askeland Edvard Askeland (born 10 December 1954) is a Norwegian jazz bassist, known from a series of album releases in various genres and for being regular in Dag Arnesens lineups in 1970–80, and within Cutting Edge. Career Askeland was born in Berg ...

(Lyrics by Olav H. Hauge) ''Under stjernone'' – vocals, trumpet *

: Miki N'Doye – ''Tuku'' – vocals, trumpet *

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 ...

– ''Two Moons'' – vocals, ice-trumpet *

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 ...

: Per Jørgensen and

– ''Agbalagba Daada'' (NorCD) – trumpet, heriba-ton, tabla, flute, coupon, vocals, kalimba, percussion, piano *

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 ...

: Lena Skjerdal – ''Home'' *

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 ...

: Per Jørgensen and Espen Berg's trio "Green Serene" ''Living live'' *

: Daniel Herskedal "City Stories» *

: gruppa BMX med "Bergen open» *

: Markku Ounaskari, Samuli Mikkonen and Per Jørgensen – ''Kuára: Psalms And Folk Songs'' (

) – trumpet *

Gabriel Fliflet Gabriel Fliflet (born 18 July 1958 in Åland, Finland) is a Norwegian accordion player and vocalist, known for his multicultural musical expressions and numerous recordings. He is the brother of bass player and sagspiller Andreas Fliflet, and the ...

– ''Åresong'' ;As producer: *

: Per Jørgensen and

– Agbalagba Daada (NorCD) ;As composer/songwriter: *

– Two Moons *

: Per Jørgensen and

– Agbalagba Daada (NorCD)

References

External links

Biography – Store Norske Leksikon
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