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Jon Audun Baar

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Origin
  
Associated acts
  
Record label
  
Cuneiform Records

Labels
  
Cuneiform Records

Genres
  

Instruments
  
Drums

Name
  
Jon Baar

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer

Website
  
pixelband.no

Music group
  
Albums
  
We Are All Small Pixels, Reminder

People also search for
  
Jonas Kilmork Vemoy, Harald Lassen, Ellen Andrea Wang

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Jon Audun Baar (1986 in Tomter, Hobøl, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz drummer.

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Career

Baar studied jazz drumming at the Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers like Jon Christensen and Rune Martinsen. He has played on several jazzfestivals in Norway such as Moldejazz, Oslo Jazzfestival and Dølajazz with many different bands and artist. He plays within the critically acclaimed trio Eberson/Baar/Eberson with the international jazz guitar legend Jon Eberson and his daughter the keyboardist Marte Maaland Eberson.

Baar is the drummer of the bands Axel Jensen Lucky Three, Ambush, Malmfrid Hallum Band, Pedersen/Myhr/Baar Trio and Pixel including the front figure double bassist and vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy and saxophonist Harald Lassen, noted as "one of the most memorable moments" of the Match and Fuse Festival, by the Jazz magazine Down Beat.

Honors

  • 2013: Featured at Young Nordic Jazz Comets within Pixel
  • Discography

    Within Pixel
  • 2012: Reminder (Cuneiform Records)
  • 2013: We Are All Small Pixels (Cuneiform Records)
  • 2015: Golden Years (Cuneiform Records)
  • References

    Jon Audun Baar Wikipedia


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