Odd-Arne Jacobsen

Odd-Arne Jacobsen
Live in Russia
Background information
Born	December 29, 1947 (1947-12-29) (age 63) Tromsø, Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar
Labels	OAJ Records
Website	www.oddarnejacobsen.no

Odd-Arne Jacobsen was born on 29.12.1947. He stands today as a unique personal "voice" in European improvisation music, with his own distinctive tone language. Odd-Arne has worked with most of the leading artists in Norway in theatre and music, and has also presented his art internationally. He has had his own television programme in Russia, as well as a solo concert at the Moscow International Jazz Festival and has toured the USA, Mexico, Russia, France, China, Kuwait, Scotland, and Japan. In 1990 he undertook a solo concert of his own compositions in Carnegie Hall, New York.

Musical career

In the early 1970s Jacobsen toured with the saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Arild Andersen and the finish percussionist Edward Vesala. Odd-Arne soon discovered he didn't want to be an ECM artist and decided to go his own ways. Projects and tours in Japan and China soon led him to expressions his music would be influenced by. Odd-Arne Jacobsen is the first Norwegian guitar player ever to hold a solo concert in Weil Recital Hall at Carneige Hall, New York. He has also done his own TV shows both in Norwegian television (NRK) and in Russian TV with the show "Vinter nattens hemmeligheter". His success in Russia has also included a performance at Moscow international jazzfestival as a guest solo artist with the Russian guitar legend Alexei Kuznetsovs quartet. Jacobsen is also one of the few Norwegians who have toured with alto saxophonist Arne Domnerus and the Swedish jazz guitarist Rune Gustafsson. He also played a Robert Normann memorial gig with Rune Gustafsson in Sarpsborg, Norway.

Odd-Arne has also had great success as a composer. In the recent years he have written "Music for the silence minority" for guitar, string quartet and bassoon. It was performed for the first time at an art-exhibition with works from Edvard Munch and Gustav Vigeland at the Munch Museum in Oslo. He also played the opening concert at Nordlysfestivalen in Tromsø, Norway in January 2007. Together with the MIN Ensamble and Edvard Debess he performed his work "For strings Only" written for string quintet and guitar for the first time. Odd-Arne are currently working with music students from the University in Tromsø - the world northernmost university

Discography

Albums

År	Tittel	Plateselskap
1985	Vakkert Land	HCR
1990	Odd-Arne Jacobsen, They did not expect him	OAJ Records
1991	Autumn Rain in May	OAJ Records
1993	Far North	OAJ Records
2002	Coro Kallos - The 20th Anniversary	Kojima Recordings
2002	Tir'D With All These	OAJ Records
2005	Midnight sessions	OAJ Records
2011	Prosjekt Obstfelder	TMA Music

External links

• Official Website
• Odd-Arne's MySpace profile
• Odd-Arne on youtube
• Odd-Arne on Norwegian Wikipedia
• Reference from Professor Per Brevig from The Juillard School,The Metropolitan Opera and The mannes College Of Music
• Reference from professor Haruna Miyake from Ferris University in Japan
• Reference from the University in Tromsø

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Name	Jacobsen, Odd-Arne
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Date of birth	December 29, 1947
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