Paal Nilssen-Love

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Name = Paal Nilssen-Love


Img_capt = Paal Nilssen-Love at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, September 24 2006; photo by Seth Tisue .
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Origin = Norway
Instrument = drums
Genre = Jazz
Occupation = Drummer
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Paal Nilssen-Love (born December 24, 1974) is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.

Nilssen-Love was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer. In 1993, during jazz studies at the University in Trondheim, he formed the band Element which musically became a platform for several other groups with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and pianist Håvard Wiik and lead to collaborations with Iain Ballamy and Chris Potter.

Relocating to Oslo in 1996, he took part in the forming of bands like Håkon Kornstad Trio, The Quintet and Frode Gjerstad Trio, as well as self initiated projects and collaborations with Swedish musicians such as pianist Sten Sandell and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. In 1999, Nilssen-Love played his first solo concert.

Today his portfolio also includes Atomic, School Days, The Thing, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, John Butcher, organist Nils Henrik Asheim and noise experimentalist Lasse Marhaug.

elected projects

*Atomic
*Element
*The Thing
*Scorch Trio
*School Days

Major collaborators

*Peter Brötzmann
*Ken Vandermark
*Joe McPhee
*Peter Brötzmann
*Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
*Håvard Wiik

Discography

"Main article: Paal Nilssen-Love discography"

External links

* [http://www.paalnilssen-love.com Official webpage]
* [http://www.panpot.ca/features/renderInterview.php?id=31 MP3 Interview]