Arild Andersen Trio

ARILD ANDERSEN, bass

Born in Norway October 27 - 1945. He has been one of Europe's leading bassplayer for more than 25 years. Andersen started out as a member of Jan Garbarek Quartet (67-73). The group also included Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen. In the same period he also worked with norwegian singer Karin Krog and played in the rhythm section for visiting american musicians such as; Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon, Hamton Hawes, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, and Chick Corea. He also worked with Don Cherry and George Russell in this years.

In 1972-74 he visited New York several times and worked with Stan Getz Quartet, Sam Rivers trio, Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn and Paul Bley.

In 1974 Arild Andersen formed his own quartet . The band toured Scandinavia and Europe and recorded 3 albums for ECM with this band. He also had a band together with singer Radka Toneff in the late 70-ties and early 80-ties.

In 1980 Arild Andersen put together a band that included Kenny Wheeler, Paul Motian, and Steve Dobrogosz (Lifelines-ECM). In -81 he had a band with Alphonse Mouzon, Bill Frisell and John Taylor (A Molde Concert-ECM). This band also toured Europe in -83, this time with John Abercrombie on guitar.

In 1982 he formed &The Arild Andersen Quintet& with Jon Christensen dr. Jon Balke p, Tore Brunborg sax, Nils Petter Molvær tp.The band changed name later to &Masqualero&. This band was in the forefront of european jazz for 10 years, the last years as quartet without piano. Masqualero toured USA, Canada, East and West Europe and made four albums, one for the norwegian label &Odin& and three for ECM. Three of the albums won the norwegian &Grammy& award.

Arild Andersen released in 1993 a trio recording with Ralph Towner and Nana Vasconcelos, &If You Look Far Enough&.

Over the last years Arild Andersen has also spent time investing the possibility of combining traditional norwegian folk music with improvised music. He started in 1988 a collaboration with singer Kirsten Braaten Berg, one of the leading artists in norwegian folk music. This lead to the successful work &Sagn& premiered in -90 and performed more than 40 times including Town Hall, New York , Germany and Scandinavia. &Sagn& was recorded -91 on The Norwegian label &Kirkelig Kulturverksted& and later released on ECM. In 93 he premiered a new work called &Arv&, also recorded on Kirkelig Kulturverksted.

In 1994 he wrote music for a theatre version on the Nobel prized trilogy &Kristin Lavransdatter& by Sigrid Undset. This also lead to several performances of the concert version of the music and a recording.

Arild Andersens last work commissioned by &The Molde International Jazz festival& premiered in 95. This music was recorded in october-96 and the CD called &Hyperborean& was released in september 1997 by ECM.

PAOLO VINACCIA, Drums, percussion

Born in Italy march 27 -1954 . He came to Norway 1979 and soon worked with all named groups in Norway, among them Terje Rypdal, Bendik Hofseth, Jan Eggum and Knut Reiersrud. He also toured and recorded with Palle Mikkelborg, Mike Manieri, Jon Christensen and David Darling. He is now the most sought after studio-musician in Norway with more than 100 recordings over the years. Vinaccia´s first own record is with a choir from Sardinia &Neoneli& + the trio Andersen, Brunborg, Vinaccia. Released in October-97.

TORE BRUNBORG, Tenor- and soprano saxophone

Born at Voss, Norway may 20 -1960. Studied at Trøndelag Music Conservatory 1980-83. In 82 he joined Arild Andersen Quintet that later changed name to Masqualero. This band recorded &Bande a´part&-85, &Aero&-87 and &Re-enter&-90 for the German label ECM. With Masqualero he toured USA, Canada and Europe. He also recorded and toured with Danish bassplayer Bo Stief-84-87,Italian piano player Rita Marcotulli-89-92 and Scottish piano player Chick Lyall-87-89 In 1989 Brunborg had a commission work for &Vossajazz& called &TID& witch he also recorded . He also worked in Jon Balke´s Magnetic North with a recording in -93 for ECM. Brunborg is part of Billy Cobham`s Nordic Project. He also performed with Gino Vannelli . His collaboration with Misha Alperin also led to recordings for ECM . The last years he has been working with Arild Andersen in different settings ,among them a recording of theatermusic: &Kristin Lavransdatter& and Andersens latest record &Hyperborean& on ECM.

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