JøKleBa

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JøKleBa
Origin Oslo, Norway
Genres Jazz
Years active 1990–2003, 2011-
Labels Odin Records
Curling Legs
EmArcy Records
Universal Music Norway
Website www.jokleba.no
Members Per Jørgensen
Audun Kleive
Jon Balke

JøKleBa (establishesd 1990 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz band with a free improvising expression. [1]

Oslo Place in Østlandet, Norway

Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. Founded in the year 1040 as Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence, and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 it functioned as a co-official capital. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in the king's honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. The city's name was spelled Kristiania between 1877 and 1897 by state and municipal authorities. In 1925 the city was renamed Oslo.

Norway constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

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All the band members are still very active in different projects, but in recent years has played very few concerts as JøKleBa, but on the tenth anniversary of Finsejazz they excited the Winter Jazz Audience. [2] In 2011 they got into a new active period with festival appearances and a new album, Nu Jøk?. [1]

Band members

Per Jørgensen Norwegian jazz musician

Per Jørgensen is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist with trumpet as his main instrument, also known for his vocal contributions, in collaboration with Dag Arnesen, Knut Kristiansen, Alex Riel, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Terje Isungset.

Audun Kleive Norwegian musician

Audun Kleive is a Norwegian Jazz musician and composer. He was raised in Skien, as the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive.

Jon Balke Norvegian jazz pianist, composer and professor

Jon Georg Balke is a Norwegian jazz pianist who leads the Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the younger brother of saxophonist Erik Balke.

Discography

Odin Records is a Norwegian jazz record company and label founded in 1981 by the Norwegian Jazz Federation, when there were not many independent record labels in Norway. Only major international record companies were to be found in Oslo, so Odin soon became the most important national label for contemporary Norwegian jazz.

Curling Legs Productions A/S is a Norwegian record label with a catalogue encompassing all styles of jazz and improvised music. It was started by Knut Værnes and Morten Halle to release their own music. In 1994 Odin Records was licensed to Curling Legs from the Norwegian Jazz Forum, to continue the production of Norwegian jazz. In addition to Værnes and Halle, the third co-owner of Curling Legs is Helge Westbye, the director of the record label Grappa Music, and the label is part of FONO. The music is distributed through the company Musikkoperatørene.

EmArcy Records American jazz record label, a division of Universal Music Group for the european market

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company.

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References

  1. 1 2 "JøKleBa går i tenkeboksen - Jazz". Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian)
  2. ↑ "JøKleBa åpner Vinterjazz MIC.no". (in Norwegian)
  3. ↑ "Ballades jazzkanon, 6-10 - MIC.no". (in Norwegian)
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