Einar Iversen
Einar " Pastor'n " Iversen ( born July 27, 1930 in Mandal ) is a Norwegian jazz pianist.
Life and work
Iversen grew up in Oslo, where he studied classical piano, played in the school band and the Katedralskolen since the late 1940s was occasionally active as a jazz musician. After a year as a sailor and military service in the Tysklandsbrigaden he was known in 1952 as a professional musician under the name Pastor'n Iversen.
He first played with Cecil Aagard and debuted in 1953 on an album by Rowland Greenberg. He then worked for several years on a transatlantic liner and has appeared Anthony Ortega ( 1954), the Modern Jazz Quartet and Orchestra Kenneth Fagerlund (1955 ) on. In 1956 he played on recordings with Bjarne Nerem; In 1958 he worked on the album Swing Time in Norway with Verden Rundt and Verdensrevyen 's All Stars with.
From 1957 to 1960 he was a member of Åge Kjelstrups dance orchestra in Oslo Humlen Restaurant, which spawned also the quartet of Mikkel Flagstad. He played a radio broadcasts and gave concerts with Karin Krog and Lucky Thompson. In 1958 he received the Buddy pinches.
1960 took Iversen on with Magni Wentzel; In the same year he played the soundtrack to the film a line. In the new Metropolitan Jazz Center, he joined with Dexter Gordon ( 1962), Coleman Hawkins ( 1963) and Johnny Griffin ( 1964) on.
Since the early 1960s, Iversen was active as a conductor and accompanist at Det Norske Teatret, the Chat Noir and the Oslo Nye Teater. In 1965, he appeared with Svend Asmussen and Stuff Smith, 1967, he recorded the album Me and My Piano with his own trio.
In the late 1960s he played with the Thor Leif Østereng Radio Big Band, early 1970s with the Ditlef Eckhoff Quintet, from 1972 to 1973 with the Steen / Bergersen Quintet. From his interest in ragtime was founded in 1974 the popular album The Sting. In the following years he recorded with the Bjarne Nerem Quartet (1976) and Laila Dalseth (1978). In 1978 he undertook a tour with Povel Ramel, Monica Zetterlund and Putte Wickman.
The mid-1980s he retired for health reasons from active musical life largely back. In 1990, he was heard again on the album Jazz på Norsk, in the following year he published his own CD Who Can I Turn to. The end of 1992 a portrait Iversen appeared on television for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1996 he played on Totti Bergh CD Warm Valley, appeared in 1998 Einar Iversen solo. The next year, followed by two more albums of his own ( Pastor'n & Diffen - Plenty of and Merry Christmas ); an album with guitarist Thor Erik Falch was released in 2000, as well Seaview in a trio with Tine Asmundsen and Svein Christiansen. The Oslo Jazz Circle in 2001 published in the series Portrait of a Norwegian Jazz Artist an album of photographs of him from 1960 to 1994.