Mari Boine is a Norwegian Sámi singer. She combined a form of Sámi joik singing with rock. In 2008, she became a professor of musicology at Nesna University College.
Guo Yue is a virtuoso of the dizi and bawu. He was born in Beijing, China during the period of the Cultural Revolution. He plays a wide range of the bamboo flute and currently lives in London. He has recorded for Peter Gabriel's Real World label. He is also dedicated to cooking, and has found ways of combining cookery with flute playing at some of his concerts.
Giovanni Amighetti is an Italian contemporary musician.
Paolo Vinaccia was an Italian jazz drummer who lived in Norway. He died on 5 July 2019 after almost ten years of living with pancreatic cancer.
The Gammleng Award is a Norwegian culture award created by The Fund for Performing Artists in 1982, 25 years after the fund was established in 1957. The award's official name is the Rolf Gammleng award to performing artists. It's awarded to artists who have in a meritorious way contributed on recordings, stage performances, or concerts.
Snorre Bjartmann Bjerck is a Norwegian jazz musician. He has played in bands like "First Set", Jon Balke, Batagraf, and the sami band Transjoik., and is otherwise known from recordings and performances with others like: Morten Harket, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Mari Boine, Nils Petter Molvær, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Sigvart Dagsland, Frode Alnæs, Eivind Aarset, Annbjørg Lien, Arve Henriksen, Nils-Olav Johansen, Tim Whelan Trans Global Underground, Karoline Krüger among others.
Helge Lilletvedt is a Norwegian jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger, known from collaborations and album releases with Herborg Kråkevik, Anne Dorte Michelsen, Vamp, Göran Fristorp, Terje Rypdal, Vigleik Storaas, Arve Henriksen, Per Jørgensen, Olav Dale, Helén Eriksen, Ole Amund Gjersvik.
Vladimir Denissenkov was born in Chernivtsi on March 30, 1956. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1979. He won with the nomination of best accordionist in a world competition of ethnic and traditional music held in 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1981 to 1990 he performed with the Moscow Philharmonic.
Kenneth Ekornes is a Norwegian jazz musician (percussion) and member of the 'Brazz Brothers', known from a number of recordings, as well as for his multiethnic musical expression and his creative use of electronics.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2017.
