Tore Johansen (born 23 December 1977) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter and the younger brother of drummer Roger Johansen. He has worked with

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, Lars Jansson,

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, Siri Gellein, and

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 ...

Career

Johansen was born in

Bodø Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland cou ...

. As a teenager, he played in the Bodø Jazz Quintet with his brother Roger Johansen and saxophonist Atle Nymo. In 1994 he started his first band with his brother, Terje Venaas (double bass,) and Einar Thorbjørnsen (piano), and joined Bodø Big Band (1994–96) led by saxophonist Henning Gravrok. He was educated at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium where he became a lecturer. He has played with the Swedish saxophonist

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and has appeared with

. He has performed with Swedish pianist Lars Jansson and the Finnish alto saxophonist Jukka Perko. With American pianist

he recorded at Norwegian radio NRK P2 for the program ''Jazzklubben'' (2004) from the jazz club Blå in Oslo. He toured with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and

in the U.S., Scandinavia, and Japan. This was documented on the album at ''Midtnorsk Jazzsenters' ''s label, MNJ Records. Other collaborators include

in 2008 and

in 2009. Johansen often works with musicians from Northern Norway, e.g. with Bjørn Alterhaug (double bass),

(piano),

Finn Sletten Finn Sletten (born 11 August 1952) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums and percussions). Career Sletten was born in Bodø. After a study tour to Arizona (1968–70), he played in his home town with such musicians as Paul Weeden, Paul Weeden B ...

(drumes) and

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(bass). With

he was part of guitarist Hallgeir Pedersen's Trio at

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in 2002. This band was extended to a quartet, including his brother Roger Johansen (drums). They performed with Norwegian folk singer Terje Nilsen at ''Trondheim Jazz Festival'' in 2006 and the nonet

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tribute with John Pål Inderberg (baritone saxophone) and Lars Sjösten (piano). Johansen has also worked extensively in a duo format with pianist

Vigleik Storaas Vigleik Storaas (born 2 February 1963) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, and the younger brother of composer and bassist Gaute Storaas. He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with jazz musicians such as Norma Wins ...

, documented on ''Rainbow Session'' (2007).

Award and honors

* 2002: Nordlandsprofil at Nordland Musikkfestuke * 2002: Nordnorsk Jazzsenter's trainee scheme 2002-2004 * 2005: Norsk Kulturråd's ensemble support * 2005: Recipient of the

Stubøprisen Stubøprisen (an Award initiated in 1989, in memory of the late guitar virtuoso and Northern Norway Enthusiast Thorgeir Stubø) is the highest honor given to a Northern Norwegian jazz musician. The award is given every second year to a person who m ...

Discography

* ''Man, Woman and Child'' (Gemini, 2000) * ''Happy Days'' (Gemini, 2002) * ''Windows'' (Gemini, 2003) * ''Like That'' (Gemini, 2005) * ''Rainbow Session'' (Inner Ear, 2007) * ''Thad Jones Tribute'' (Normann, 2008) * ''Jazz Mass'' (Inner Ear, 2009) * ''I.S.'' (Inner Ear, 2010) * ''Natt, Stille'' (Inner Ear, 2010) * ''Nord'' (Inner Ear, 2011) * ''Double Rainbow'' (Inner Ear, 2012) * ''Open Minds'' (Inner Ear, 2012) * ''Alvin Pang'' with Endre Lund Eriksen (Inner X, 2013) * ''The Set'' (Inner Ear, 2014) * ''Earth Stills'' (Inner Ear, 2015) * ''Sang'' (Inner Ear, 2020)

References

External links

*
Tore Johansen Biografi at ''Inner Ear''''Stubøprisen 2005''Tore Johansen at Myspace
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansen, Tore 1977 births Living people Musicians from Bodø 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 20th-century Norwegian trumpeters 21st-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian trumpeters Gemini Records artists Inner Ear artists Male jazz composers Male trumpeters Norwegian jazz composers Norwegian jazz trumpeters Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Trondheim Jazz Orchestra members