Improbasen is a nationwide center in Norway, where children learn to play jazz.
Improbasen is a nationwide center in Norway, where children learn to play jazz.
Improbasens methods for teaching even small children to play complex music, has attracted attention all over Norway and abroad. Since 2008, some of the most progressive jazz musicians in Norway, including Thomas Strønen, Ole Morten Vågan, Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, Mats Eilertsen, Hanna Paulsberg and Tore Brunborg, have conducted workshops at the center. [1] [2]
Thomas Strønen is a Norwegian jazz drummer who has recorded more than 60 albums. He has worked with Iain Ballamy, Arve Henriksen, Mats Eilertsen, Ashley Slater, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Nils Petter Molvaer, Bobo Stenson, John Taylor, Tore Brunborg, Morten Qvenild, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Sidsel Endresen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Tomasz Stanko, Koichi Makigami, Ernst Reijseger, Nils-Olav Johansen, and Stian Carstensen.
Ole Morten Vågan is a Norwegian jazz musician, and the older brother of guitarist Petter Vågan. He is known from several recordings and as orchestra leader, and from cooperating with some of the most influential musicians and composers internationally. He is a central member of the band Motif.
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a Norwegian musician. She is known for a series of album releases and collaborations with musicians like Jon Eberson, Jarle Bernhoft and Hilde Marie Kjersem.
Improbasen has engaged in comprehensive educational projects in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Japan. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
The center also helped develop the jazz club Barnas Jazzhus, and the international festival Kids in Jazz. In August 2014, the founder of Improbasen, Odd André Elveland, received the award Ella-prisen for his work with children and jazz. [12] [13] [14]
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or promotion of jazz-music. Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz, when bands were large and often augmented by a string section. Large rooms were also more common in the Swing era, because at that time, jazz was popular as a dance music, so the dancers needed space to move. With the transition to 1940s-era styles like Bebop and later styles such as soul jazz, small combos of musicians such as quartets and trios were mostly used, and the music became more of a music to listen to, rather than a form of dance music. As a result, smaller clubs with small stages became practical.
Barnas Jazzhus is a jazz club in Norway specializing in concerts and concepts where children perform jazz. Barnas Jazzhus has presented concerts on several venues in the Oslo area, including Nasjonal jazzscene, which is the main stage for jazz in Norway.
Kids in Jazz is an international jazz festival where children perform. The festival takes place in August, with concerts on numerous stages in Oslo.
The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the book's rise from relative obscurity.
"Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" is a song by American Eurodance artist Scatman John. It was released in 1995 and reached number one in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
Werner Günthör is a former Swiss track and field athlete, who was the best shot putter in the history of Swiss track and field.
Marc Anton Kyu Hungerbühler is a New York City―based multimedia artist and curator. He was born in Switzerland to a Swiss father and a Korean mother. He has one sister, Cosima Hungerbühler. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in 1985, and went on to a summer residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited his works in Korea, Japan, China, the United States, and Europe. In 2002, he founded the:artist:network, an independent arts organization based in downtown Manhattan and Beijing, for which he serves as director. For the:artist:network, he has organized and curated more than 40 international exhibitions and established residency programs in New York, Switzerland, and China.
3XN is a Danish architectural practice with head office in Copenhagen.
Hugo Rasmussen was a Danish bassist. Rasmussen is best known for his album Sweets to the Sweet (1978). Sweets To the Sweet was re-released in 2001 on Danish label Music Mecca.
Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, and builders operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. As of 2016, the office has over 400 employees from 25 countries.
Laila Dalseth is a Norwegian jazz singer, married (1963-2012) to the jazz saxophonist Theodor "Totti" Bergh (1935-2012), known for numerous recordings and international cooperation and regarded as one of the leading Norwegian Jazz singers.
Oslo International Jazz Festival is a Norwegian music event, held in August, with a focus on music form the jazz genere, performed on stages in Oslo.
Norsk Jazzforum or The Norwegian Jazz Forum is a member and interest organization that gathers the Norwegian jazz community, and works to promote the Norwegian jazz in terms of cultural policy and the arts.
Corin Curschellas is a Swiss singer-songwriter, vocalist, free improvisation, actress, voice actress in as well as voice instructress.
Odd André Elveland is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), composer, arranger and jazz teacher.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2012 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2014 in Norwegian music.
John (Jean) Stutz is a virtual artist who produces artworks (castings) made of reactive two component polyurethane resins, sculptures and installations. He became well known 2011 by his first big life performance on the Parade Square in Zurich, in front and in the favor of the major Swiss Banks. He lives and works in Rorschach and Pawling, New York.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2014.
Ronni Vindahl is an award-winning and Grammy Awards-nominated Danish music producer, composer, re-mixer and musician. He is co-founder of the Copenhagen-based music collective Boom Clap Bachelors, and has worked with artists such as MØ, Avicii, and Kendrick Lamar. Vindahl occasionally also writes and records under his own name, and released his first solo album in 2012.
Pandijazz, also known as "Los Pequeños Gigantes del Jazz", is the only jazz band of children in Venezuela, it was founded in 2010 in Barquisimeto, Lara State. The school has about 20 members between 6 and 16 years old.
