Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and improvised music label based in Oslo, Norway, often associated with nu jazz.
Sidsel Endresen is a Norwegian singer, composer, and actress. She was part of the Jon Eberson group. Since 1987, Endresen has pursued a successful solo career, recording for ECM.
Stian Westerhus is a Norwegian guitarist known for his experimental style, explored with keyboardist Øystein Moen in the bands Jaga Jazzist and Puma and with Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, and Ingar Zach.
Bergen International Jazz Festival or Nattjazz, is one of the largest jazz festivals of Norway. The festival has a musical profile with an emphasis on ethnic and contemporary jazz. It is held annually in late May, coinciding with Festspillene i Bergen, and is located at Verftet in Bergen.
Håvard Skarpnes Wiik is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, known from a number of recordings with bands like Atomic, and performances with musicians like Petter Wettre, Ola Kvernberg and Stian Carstensen.
Ola Kvernberg is a Norwegian jazz musician known for his virtuosic string swing violin playing and his international performances. He is the son of traditional musicians Liv Rypdal Kvernberg and Torbjørn Kvernberg, and the brother of traditional musicians Kari Kvernberg Dajani and fiddler Jorun Marie Kvernberg, and grandson of the fiddler and traditional music composer Peter L. Rypdal. Kvernberg studied classical violin from the age of nine, and won 3rd prize in a great classical violin competition in Italy when he was fourteen.
Kjetil Traavik Møster is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer, known from bands like The Core, Ultralyd, Brat, Zanussi 5, and performance with Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, later released on CD. He has also made his mark with experimental performances at the interface between electronic based fri-rock and jazz.
Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by Trude Storheim since August 2007.
Stein Urheim is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer, known from cooperations with Gabriel Fliflet and Mari Kvien Brunvoll.
Mari Kvien Brunvoll is the debut album of the Norwegian singer Mari Kvien Brunvoll, recorded February 2010 at the "12 Points Festival", Stavanger, Norway by Per Ravnaas and Kaj Hjertenes at NRK Musikkteknikk. "Is It Love" and "Joanna" was recorded July 2010, at Clusone Jazz Festival, Italy. "Oh How Much" was recorded November 2009, at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Marc Broer and Willem Feenstra of NTR Radio. All music performed live in concert by Mari Kvien Brunvoll.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2011 in Norwegian music.
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 2010 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2015 in Norwegian music.
Ensemble Denada or Norske Store Orkester is a Norwegian miniature big band run by "Østnorsk jazzsenter".
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2009 in Norwegian music.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2009.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2012.
Øyvind Hegg-Lunde is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Borgund, Lærdal, but today resides in Bergen. He is known from collaborations with José Gonzalez, Junip, Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken, Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Per Jørgensen, Terje Isungset, Håkon Kornstad, Kurt Johannessen, Stein Urheim, The Megaphonic Thrift, Odin Staveland, Odd Martin Skålnes, Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Marilyn Mazur.
Stephan Meidell is a Norwegian guitarist and composer living in Bergen.
