Odin Records

Odin Records was a Norwegian jazz record label that was founded in 1981 and existed until 1993.

Once in the 1970s, almost all of the modern Norwegian jazz recordings were released on the ECM label in Munich, the Norwegian jazz label Odin emerged in the 1980s after the short-lived label Nordisk in Oslo. Their first production was in 1981 an album of Thorgeir Stubø quintet; until the mid- 1990s, more than 50 albums emerged, including the album Fairytales singer Radka Toneff and pianist Steve Dobrogosz (1982 ), which became the best-selling Norwegian jazz album. Involved in the label of the Norsk was jazzforbund; In 1993, the label went into the possession of the label Curling Legs.

When Odin the music of artists such as Knut Riisnæs ( Flukt, 1982), Oslo 13 ( anti Therapy, 1982), Espen Rud appeared (Hotel Suite, 1984), Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell, Karin Krog and John Surman ( Freestyle, 1986) Jon Eberson, poor Donelian / Carl Morten Iversen / Audun Kleive (Trio '87 ), Tore Brunborg, Vigleik Storaas, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Per Husby ( Notes for Nature, 1990), Jon Balke ( On and On, 1991), age Bjørn Haug, Knut Riisnæs / Jon Christensen with John Scofield and Palle Danielsson (1992 ), Carl Morten Iversen Jan Gunnar Hoff ( Syklus, 1992), Lee Konitz ( Steps Towards a Dream, 1993) and Knut Kristiansen ( Monk Moods, 1993).