Name Torgrim Sollid | Role Musical Artist | |
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Instruments Trumpet, flugelhorn, drums Albums Osterdalsmusikk (feat. Helge Lien, Sigurd Hole, Morten Halle, Sigrun Eng, Birger Mistereggen, Tom Steinar Lund, Guro Gravem Johansen & Margrete Nordmoen) Similar People Morten Halle, Sigurd Hole, Helge Lien | ||
Occupation(s) Musician and composer | ||
Vår Gukko (1975)
Torgrim Sollid (born 17 June 1942 in Eidskog, Norway) is a Norwegian self-taught traditional folk musician, composer and jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn and drums), known for combining folk music with jazz, and for playing within Jan Garbarek Quartet and Warne Marsh Sextet.
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Gukko fra Åsbygda (1975)
Career
After growing up in Stor-Elvdal Sollid was drummer in "Veitvet Big Band" and "Jan Garbarek Quartet" (1962–63), prior to training in music therapy in Mo i Rana, where he also played with Guttorm Guttormsen Band. In Molde he played in Erling Aksdal Sextet, and the two then gave out the "mountain jazz" project Østerdalsmusikk (1974) with music by Ole Mørk Sandvik. In the same vein he started the big band Søyr (1976–) in Trondheim, which he has led since to a number of album releases. Sollid played on two albums Sax of a kind (1983) and For the Time Being (1987) by Warne Marsh, with Sidsel Endresen and others in "Blue Moon" he performed at the "Oslo Jazzfestival" in 1995, and participated on the Thomas Winther Andersen album Line Up (1998).
He has been associated with the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium, and is currently associate professor in jazz trumpet at Norges Musikkhøgskole, where he initiated Norway's other jazz education, additional to the Jazz program in Trondheim (NTNU). With Knut Værnes he led the summer school for "Norsk jazzforum".