Origin Norway Role Musician Name Erik Johannessen | Instruments Trombone Occupation(s) Musician, composer Genres Jazz | |
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Born 22 July 1975 (age 48)
Oslo ( 1975-07-22 ) Website Erik Johannessen on Myspace Music groups Jaga Jazzist, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Magic Pocket Albums One‑Armed Bandit, Live with Britten Sinfonia, What We Must, Jaevla Jazzist Grete Stitz, A Livingroom Hush Similar People Jaga Jazzist, Lars Horntveth, Martin Hagfors, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Martin Horntveth | ||
Erik Johannessen (born 22 July 1975 in Oslo) is a Norwegian musician (trombone) and composer, known from playing in bands like Jaga Jazzist, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Loud Jazz Band, Lord Kelvin, Funky Hot Grits, Ensemble Denada and Magic Pocket.
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Career
Johannessen grew up at Lambertseter and is educated at the Jazz program Trondheim Musikkonservatorium and the University of Oslo. He mainly plays jazz and pop music and works with music in many context. He has also toured extensively around moust of Europe and the rest of the world with Jaga Jazzist and Ensemble Denada, in all over Poland with Loud Jazz Band and Norway with various other bands. He has played with Joshua Redman and Trondheim Jazzorkester, Eirik Hegdal, Terje Rypdal, Jon Balke, Erlend Skomsvoll, Maria Kannegaard, and his own band, Magic Pocket. He has also released albums with Lord Kelvin and Magic Pocket. He got the "Sparebank1 Midtnorges JazZtipendiat" 2009/10 with Magic Pocket and was awarded Spellemannprisen 2010 in open class, for the album One-Armed Bandit with Jaga Jazzist.
He has Conducted, arranged and Composed for various big bands like Kjellerbandet, "Midtnorsk Ungdomstorband", "Follo Big Band", "Orkdal Storband", "Kristiansund Storband", "Vollen Big Band", "Travelin' Storband" and "Sintefstorbandet", and has also contributed with his trombone to Dum Dum Boys, Maria Mena, Martin Hagfors, Jens Carelius and other projects.
Johannessen's first solo album Inkblots (2012) is a beautiful set of short compositions, with noisy sounds, hard swing, free improvissations. He is accompanied by the tight rhythm section of bassist Jon Rune Power, from the Frode Gjerstad Trio, and young Magic Pocket drummer Erik Nylander.
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Discography
Inkblots (2012)