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Jaga Jazzist

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Jaga Jazzist (also known as Jaga) is an experimental jazz band from Norway that rose to prominence when the BBC named their second album, A Livingroom Hush (Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune), the best jazz album of 2002. [1]

63 relations: A Livingroom Hush, Acid jazz, All About Jazz, Anders Hana, Andreas Mjøs, Aphex Twin, Øystein Moen, Bass clarinet, Bass guitar, BBC, Britten Sinfonia, Dag Arnesen, Don Cherry (trumpeter), Drum kit, Electric guitar, EMusic, Erik Johannessen (musician), Even Ormestad, Experimental rock, Gammleng Award, In the Fishtank 10, Inga Juuso, Jazz band, Jazz fusion, Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz, Jørgen Munkeby, John Coltrane, Katowice, Kristin Asbjørnsen, Lars Horntveth, Line Horntveth, Live with Britten Sinfonia, Martin Horntveth, Mathias Eick, Morten Qvenild, Motorpsycho, Ninja Tune, Norway, Nu jazz, One-Armed Bandit (album), Poland, Post-rock, Ravi (Ivar Johansen), Rhodes piano, Scandinavia, Sjur Miljeteig, Smalltown Supersound, Soft Machine, Spellemannprisen, Squarepusher, ..., Stereolab, Stian Westerhus, Talk Talk, Tønsberg, The Mars Volta, The National Bank (band), Tortoise (band), Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Vibraphone, Warner Music Group, YouTube. Expand index (13 more) »

A Livingroom Hush

A Livingroom Hush is the debut album of Jaga Jazzist, released in 2001 by Ninja Tune under the authority of the Warner Music Group.

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Acid jazz

Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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Anders Hana

Anders Hana (born 7 August 1982 in Stavanger, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (guitar) and composer, known as a veteran of the bands Noxagt, Ultralyd and Moha!, and a series of album releases.

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Andreas Mjøs

Andreas Mjøs (born 1 March 1976 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician, record producer and composer, known from a series of performances and albums within Jaga Jazzist.

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Aphex Twin

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by his main alias Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born Cornish electronic musician best known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in styles such as ambient techno and IDM during the 1990s.

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Øystein Moen

Øystein Moen (born 16 August 1980) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer known for his participation in the bands Jaga Jazzist and Puma.

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Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Britten Sinfonia

Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK.

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Dag Arnesen

Dag Syver Arnesen (born 3 May 1950) is a Norwegian jazz pianist with a series of album releases.

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Don Cherry (trumpeter)

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription.

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Erik Johannessen (musician)

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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Even Ormestad

Even Enersen Ormestad (born 9 November 1978 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian bass guitarist and music producer, known as a member of the band Jaga Jazzist.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Gammleng Award

The Gammleng Award (Gammleng-prisen) is a Norwegian culture award created by The Fund for Performing Artists in 1982, 25 years after the fund was established in 1957.

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In the Fishtank 10

In the Fishtank 10 is a 2003 EP by Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist Horns, recorded in 2002 during their European tour and released via the Konkurrent label in 2003.

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Inga Juuso

Inga Juuso (5 October 1945 – 23 August 2014) was a yoiker, Sami singer and actress in the film The Kautokeino Rebellion.

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Jazz band

A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz

Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz (released 1996 in Oslo by label Thug Records - THUG 011) is an album by Jaga Jazzist.

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Jørgen Munkeby

Jørgen Munkeby (born 3 September 1980 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz and heavy metal musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, known as the frontman in the band Shining and former member of Jaga Jazzist.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Katowice

Katowice (Katowicy; Kattowitz; officially Miasto Katowice) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of 297,197 and the center of the Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2.2 million.

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Kristin Asbjørnsen

Kristin Asbjørnsen (born 12 May 1971) is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer whose focus is on improvised music.

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Lars Horntveth

Lars Horntveth (born 10 March 1980 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (saxophones, clarinet, percussion and guitar), band leader, and composer.

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Line Horntveth

Line Horntveth (born 26 November 1974 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (tuba, flute percussion, and vocals), the sister of the musicians Martin and Lars Horntveth, married to the upright bassist Bjørn Holm, and known from a series of recordings within Jaga Jazzist.

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Live with Britten Sinfonia

Live with Britten Sinfonia is a live album by Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist and English orchestra Britten Sinfonia.

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Martin Horntveth

Martin Horntveth (born 20 September 1977 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (primarily drummer), composer and electronica artist, the younger brother of tubaist Line Horntveth, but best known as the drummer and key member of Jaga Jazzist and The National Bank together with his brother Lars Horntveth.

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Mathias Eick

Mathias Eick (born 26 June 1979) is a Norwegian jazz musician, and the brother of the jazz musicians Johannes Eick and Trude Eick.

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Morten Qvenild

Morten Qvenild (born 31 August 1978 in Kongsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, band leader and producer.

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Motorpsycho

Motorpsycho (initiated 1989 at Trøndertun, Melhus, Norway) is a band from Trondheim.

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Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune is an English independent record label based in London.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Nu jazz

Nu jazz, also known as jazztronica, is a genre of jazz and contemporary electronic music.

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One-Armed Bandit (album)

One-Armed Bandit is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Ravi (Ivar Johansen)

Ivar Christian Johansen (born 28 April 1976 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian popular artist, musician (vocals, keyboards and trumpet), composer, journalist and program manager (NRK and TV2 Norway), known under the pseudonym Ravi (his first name backwards).

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Rhodes piano

The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano or simply Fender Rhodes or Rhodes) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Sjur Miljeteig

Sjur Miljeteig (born 4 January 1974) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet), composer and author, married 20 October 2007 to the actress Ane Dahl Torp (1975), and they are residing in Oslo with their two children, a boy (2010) and a girl (2012).

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Smalltown Supersound

Smalltown Supersound is an independent record label based in Oslo, Norway, and dedicated to new forms of jazz, rock and electronic music.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Spellemannprisen

Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians.

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Squarepusher

Squarepusher is the principal pseudonym adopted by Tom Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), an English electronic musician.

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Stereolab

Stereolab were an English-French avant-pop band from London, formed in 1990 by Tim Gane (guitar/keyboards) and Lætitia Sadier (vocals/keyboards/guitar) who both remained at the songwriting helm across many line-up changes.

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Stian Westerhus

Stian Westerhus (born 2 April 1979 in Jådåren near Steinkjer, Norway) is a Norwegian guitarist known for his experimental style, exposed with keyboardist Øystein Moen in the bands Jaga Jazzist and Puma and in collaborations with musicians like Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang and Ingar Zach.

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Talk Talk

Talk Talk were an English rock band formed in 1981, led by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass).

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Tønsberg

Tønsberg is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak.

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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001.

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The National Bank (band)

The National Bank is a Norwegian rock/pop band, whose debut album was released in Norway in 2004 and featured the hit song "Tolerate".

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Tortoise (band)

Tortoise is an American experimental rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaga_Jazzist

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