Paal Nilssen-Love | |
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 At the Empty Bottle, Chicago, 24 September 2006 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 24 December 1974 Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Norway |
| Genres | Jazz, Free jazz, Free improvisation |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Website |
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Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. [1]
Early life
Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. [2] His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and he learned to play drums on the kit owned by his father. [2] As a teenager, he played with free-jazz reedsman Frode Gjerstad, which was the start of a long musical relationship. [2] He did musical studies at Sund folkehøgskole 1993-94. In 1994, during studies on the Jazz program at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1994–96), he formed the band Element which musically became a platform for several other groups with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and pianist Håvard Wiik and led to collaborations with Iain Ballamy and Chris Potter. [1] Nilssen-Love also did a little composing in the mid-1990s. [2]
Later life and career
Relocating to Oslo in 1996, Nilssen-Love took part in the forming of bands such as Håkon Kornstad Trio, The Quintet and Frode Gjerstad Trio, as well as self-initiated projects.[ citation needed] In 1999, Nilssen-Love played his first solo concert.[ citation needed]
Continuing, "by the early 2000s, Nilssen-Love had launched an international career, playing alongside Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and American reed player Ken Vandermark, among others." [2] He has worked with his trio Vandermark and Ab Baars, the bands Large Unit (a big band, with about 14 members, which he has led and composed for since 2013), [2] [3] School Days, The Thing, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Peter Brötzmann and Vandermark guitarist Terrie Hessels ( The Ex), saxophonist John Butcher, organist Nils Henrik Asheim, and noise experimentalist Lasse Marhaug. [1] [4]
In 2014, Nilssen-Love decided to leave the band Atomic to concentrate on Large Unit and projects involving more improvising. [5]
Awards
- 2002: Kongsberg Jazz Award, within Håkon Kornstad Trio
- 2006: Buddyprisen
Discography
Solo drum recordings
- 2001: Sticks & Stones (Sofa)
- 2005: 27 Years Later (Utech)
- 2010: Miró (PNL)
- 2012: Chiapaneca (Bocian)
- 2015: News from the Junk Yard (PNL)
References
- ^ a b c "Nilssen-Love, Paal Biography - Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no". (in Norwegian)
- ^ a b c d e f Meyer, Bill (15 March 2018). "Q&A with Paal Nilssen-Love: In a Natural Way". DownBeat. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ^ "Friday June 22, [2018,] 9:00 PM: Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit". Elastic Arts. 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ^ "Stressa ned med intens kontorkonsert - Kultur og underholdning". 6 September 2011. NRK.no (in Norwegian)
- ^ Margasak, Peter (July 2015) "Atomic – Lucidity". Down Beat. p. 52.
External links
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Official website
- Kornstad Trio - official website of the trio.
- Frode Gjerstad Trio
- MP3 Interview
| International | |
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| National | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
- 1974 births
- Free jazz drummers
- Living people
- Musicians from Molde
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni
- Norwegian jazz composers
- 20th-century Norwegian drummers
- 21st-century Norwegian drummers
- Norwegian jazz drummers
- Norwegian male drummers
- Free jazz percussionists
- Rune Grammofon artists
- Norwegian male jazz composers
- 20th-century Norwegian male musicians
- 21st-century Norwegian male musicians
- Atomic (band) members
- The Thing (jazz band) members
- Clean Feed Records artists
- Smalltown Supersound artists
- Utech Records artists
- NoBusiness Records artists