Hot Club de Norvège

The Hot Club de Norvège is a Norwegian jazz quartet, which is based on the style of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, has produced numerous albums and has performed internationally with numerous guest soloists.

History

The two guitarists Jon Larsen and Per Frydenlund founded with bassist Svein Aarbostad, with whom she had been friends since childhood, the same trio in 1979. It appeared first in small groups and with street music. 1980 met the violinist Ivar Brodahl ( 1928-2003 ) to the group soon thereafter submitted a first album and the Norwegian Djangofestival justified. In 1981, the band collaborated with Raphael Fays and stepped on the Molde International Jazz Festival, in the following year in Finland Pori Jazz. 1985 replaced the violinist and harmonica player Finn Hauge Brodahl.

The band continued playing with Al Casey, Stéphane Grappelli, Didier Lockwood, Matelo Ferret, Boulou Ferré, Howard Alden, Debarre, Jimmy and Stochelo Rosenberg, Romane, Philip Catherine, Ulf Wakenius, Babik Reinhardt, Ola Kvernberg, Andreas Öberg, Florin Niculescu and Nigel Kennedy. Stylistically, the band showed their openness through collaborations that ranged from Norwegian folk singer Øystein Sunde about the Vertavo String Quartet and the Symphony Orchestra Tromso to Punk Jazz Project Løver & Tigre.

Prizes and awards

1982 the Group received together with Lille Nilsen for the album Original Nilsen the Spellemannprisen. The album Swinging With Jimmy with Jimmy Rosenberg was awarded by the Norwegian composer Association NOPA as "Factory of the Year".