Marius Reksjø

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Marius Reksjø
Birth name Marius Julian Reksjø
Born (1973-10-03) 3 October 1973 (age 44)
Horten, Vestfold
Origin Norway
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Upright bass
Labels Jazzland
Associated acts New Conception of Jazz
Jazzland Community
Cosmopolitan
Website www.groove.no/artist/38446276/marius-reksjo

Marius Julian Reksjø (born 3 October 1973 in Horten, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass), known from cooperation within Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland Community and the band Beady Belle with his wife Beate S. Lech. [1]

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Career

Reksjø studied music at the University of Oslo, was first bassist of the group Insert Coin. He was known from collaboration within Eivind Aarset's band Electronique Noir, on whose album Light Extracts (2001) he played, and with Bugge Wesseltoft he released the albums Moving (2001) and Jazzland Community 2007. With the Bobby Hughes Combination he recorded the album Nhu Golden Era on (2002). He also appeared with the Danish rock band The Savage Rose, and the singer-songwriter Jan Eggum on the albums Deilig (1999) and 30/30 (2005). [2] He teaches bass at the "Høgskolen i Staffeldtsgate". [3]

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With his wife, the singer Beate S. Lech he formed the band Beady Belle in 1999. Their debut album Home (2001) was followed by the albums Cewbeagappic (2004), Closer (2005) and Belvedere (2008). [1]

Beate Slettevoll Lech is a Norwegian jazz singer, composer and lyricist in modern jazz and related music, raised in Øvre Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane. She grew up in Volda, Møre og Romsdal as daughter of the Polish jazz violinist Zdzislaw Lech, known from bands like "Folk & Røvere", Jon Eberson's band Metropolitan, and Beady Belle with her husband jazz bassist Marius Reksjø, and has attracted attention in concerts internationally.

Beady Belle is a Norwegian jazz band founded by Beate S. Lech with her bassist and husband Marius Reksjø, after having been encouraged to make a record by Bugge Wesseltoft at Jazzland Recordings.

Discography

Within Beady Belle

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With Jan Eggum

Grappa Musikkforlag AS is a Norwegian music company initiated and directed by Helge Westbye. It is one of the oldest and biggest independent record companies in Norway today. The company represents prominent Norwegian artists, and the catalog consists of more than 35 000 tracks in all genres of music. The classic catalog is marketed through Simax Classics. Folk and world music is released on the Heilo label which was taken over by Grappa in 1995. Besides representing the labels Blue Mood, Hubro and Barneselskapet. Grappa is also engaged in several other music companies such as Drabant Music, Curling Legs and Rune Grammofon. Grappa has a close cooperation with the "Norsk Komponistforening" for the marketing of their contemporary music published on the Aurora label and with Norsk Jazzforum for the jazz label Odin. Grappa is the Norwegian Music Publishing company with the most nominations for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen. The company's DVD releases have also set Norwegian sales records. Grappa is part of FONO.

With Bugge Wesseltoft
With Bobby Hughes Combination
With "Folk og Røvere"
With Eivind Aarset
With Beate S. Lech

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Beady Belle – Discography" (in Norwegian). Discogs.com.
  2. ↑ "Marius Reksjø – Discography" (in Norwegian). Groove.no.
  3. ↑ "Høgskolen i Staffeldtsgate – Instrumentlærere" (in Norwegian). HIS.no.
  4. ↑ "Folk og Røvere – Bagateller Review" (in Norwegian). Groove.no.
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