Laila Dalseth

Laila Dalseth ( born November 6, 1940 in Bergen) is a Norwegian jazz singer.

Work

Dalseth began her professional career in 1960 when she moved to Oslo and in the 1960s with Kjell Karlsen (from 1961), Egil Kapstad, Frode Thingnaes and Helge Hurums worked. In 1963 Dalseths recording debut Metropol Jazz ( 1963). She sang in the following years in the Stokstad / Jensen Trad. Band ( 1973-75 ), in Per Borthen and left in 1976 in Teatret Vårt in the Stpck Havhesten on. Since then, she has worked both with European and American jazz with musicians; on their albums for the label Gemini had, inter alia, Terje Venaas, Bucky Pizzarelli, Milt Hinton, Al Cohn, Red Mitchell and Philip Catherine with. In addition, she was involved in productions of her husband Totti Bergh, as in albums by Arne Domnerus and Bengt Hallberg. During the 1980s and 1990s, she performed at numerous international festivals together with Flip Phillips, Major Holley, Roger Kellaway, Frank Capp, Nat Pierce and Per Husby.

In 1962, she won with the two songs Mormors spilledåse (# 5) and Kom sol, kom regn (# 1) twice the Melodi Grand Prix. For her performance, she was a total of three times with the Norwegian Spellemannprisen and in 1986 awarded the Gammleng - prisen; the Norwegian Jazz Society also honored her with the Buddy pinches.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Just Friends (1975 ) with Per Husby
• Glad There is You (1978 )
• Daydreams (1984 )
• Time for Love (1986 ) with Red Mitchell
• Travelling Light (1986 ) with Al Cohn
• The Judge and I ( 1991) Milt Hinton with
• A Woman's Intuition ( 1995) with Philip Catherine
• Listen Here! (Gemini 1999)
• One of a Kind (Gemini, 2000)
• Everything I Love (Gemini, 2003)