Gard Nilssen

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Origin Norway Role Musician Name Gard Nilssen		Instruments Drums Occupation(s) Musician, composer Genres Jazz

Born 24 June 1983 (age 40) Skien, Telemark ( 1983-06-24 ) Associated acts Bushman's Revenge, Puma Website Gard Nilssen on Myspace Music groups Bushman's Revenge, Puma (Since 2005) Albums A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza, Thou Shalt Boogie!, You Lost Me at Hello, Never Mind the Botox, Electric Komle ‑ Live! Similar People Eirik Hegdal, Per Zanussi, Stian Westerhus, Oystein Moen, Kjetil Moster

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Gard Nilssen (born 24 June 1983 in Skien, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (drums) and composer, and member of the bands Bushman's Revenge and Puma.

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Career

Nilssen was educated on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2003). He was voted this year's young jazz musicians in 2006 with the group Puma. Otherwise Nilssen is very active in bands like Bushman´s Revenge, Lord Kelvin, and Heidi Skjerve Kvintett.

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Nilssen was chosen to represent Norway in the artist development program Take Five, a music developer program promoted by the London-based concert promoter Serious.

Honors

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This year's young jazz musicians 2006, with the band Puma by Rikskonsertene and Norsk Jazzforum

Solo albums

Gard Nilssen´s Acoustic Unity, including with André Roligheten and Petter Eldh

2015: Firehouse (Clean Feed Records)

Band releases

Within Puma trio including Øystein Moen and Stian Westerhus

2007: Isolationism (Bolage Records)

2008: Discotheque Bitpunching (Bolage Records)

2009: Fist Full of Knuckles (Knuckleman Records), with Lasse Marhaug

2010: Half Nelson Courtship (Rune Grammofon)

Within Bushman's Revenge trio including Rune Nergaard and Even Helte Hermansen

2007: Cowboy Music (Jazzaway Records)

2009: You Lost Me At Hello (Rune Grammofon)

2010: Jitterbug (Rune Grammofon)

2012: A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammofon)

2012: Never Mind The Botox (Rune Grammofon)

2013: Electric Komle – Live! (Rune Grammofon)

2016: Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen (Rune Grammofon)

2016: Bushman's Fire (Rune Grammofon), live LP with Kjetil Møster and David Wallumrød

Within Lord Kelvin trio including Eirik Hegdal and Erik Johannessen

2009: Dances In The Smoke (Jazzland Recordings)

2011: Radio Has No Future (Gigafon Records)

Within Cortex quartet including Ola Høyer, Kristoffer Berre Alberts and Thomas Johansson

2011: Resection (Bolage Records)

2012: Göteborg (Gigafon Records)

Collaborations

With Marita Røstad

2007: Silent Sunday (Magica Records)

Within Team Hegdal quartet including Eirik Hegdal, André Roligheten and Rune Nergaard

2010: Vol 1 (Øra Fonogram)

2011: Vol 2 (Øra Fonogram), sextet including additional Mattias Ståhl and Ola Kvernberg

Within Scent Of Soil quintet including Tore Brunborg, Kirsti Huke, Petter Vågan and Rune Nergaard

2011: Scent Of Soil (Hubro Music)

With Elvira Nikolaisen and Mathias Eick

2013: I Concentrate On You (Grappa)

With Arild Andersen and Helge Lien

2016: The Rose Window (Deutsche Media Productions), live at Theater Gütersloh

References

Gard Nilssen Wikipedia

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