Origin Norway Role Musician Occupation(s) Musician, composer Genres Jazz | Instruments Drums Music group Ab und Zu Name Finn Sletten | |
Born 11 August 1952 (age 71)
Bodo, Nordland ( 1952-08-11 ) Similar People Tore Brunborg, Audun Kleive, Paolo Vinaccia, Kenneth Ekornes, Kim Ofstad | ||
Finn Sletten (born 11 August 1952 in Bodø, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums and percussions).
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After a study tour to Arizona (1968–70), Sletten played in Bodø with such as Paul Weeden Band at Festival of North Norway (1972) and an album (1974). In Oslo he participated in Magni Wentzel Quintet, including Jon Eberson (guitar), Tore Brunborg (saxophone) and Jon Balke (keyboards) among others. From 1988 he was involved in "Trio Nord" (1988), Ola Bremness Vær hilset! (1995), Marit Sandvik band, Nordland jazzforums Distant Reports (2001), Tore Johansen and Jan Gunnar Hoff's production Free Flows (2005).
Sletten assisted the jazz poet Triztán Vindtorn with percussion on Cecilie Jordal (2001)., a portion of the presentation "Philosophiske Smuler". He also contributes to the Bodø Domkor's Christmas jazz and Beiarn jazz camp, and was recently on contributor Kristin Mellem and Bjørn Andor Drage's film music to Nærkontakt med brunbjørn.
Sletten was at the Festival of North Norway 2009 awarded Stubøprisen to have been "a significant pioneer and inspiration to generations of north Norwegian jazz musicians". That same year he also received the prestigious Gammleng-prisen in the class jazz by "Fond for utøvende kunstnere".