Bjørn Alterhaug

Bjørn Alterhaug
Bjørn Alterhaug Quintet at Oslo Jazzfestival 2017.
Background information
Born	(1945-06-03) 3 June 1945 (age 78) Mo i Rana, Nordland, Norway
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument(s)	Upright bass
Website	www.poncajazzrec.no/alterhaug

Bjørn Alterhaug (born 3 June 1945) is a Norwegian jazz bassist, arranger, composer and professor of music.^[1]

Career

Alterhaug was born in

• Buddyprisen 1975
• Rana municipality Culture Prize 1975
• This year's jazz musicians in Norway 1975 .
• Spellemannprisen 1980 in the class jazz for the album Moments (1979)
• Gammleng-prisen
  1989
• Sør-Trøndelag County Culture Prize, together with John Pål Inderberg 2011

Bibliography (in selection)

• Good morning, Duke (1999)
• A song - not too happy (1999)
• Bass means love (2004)
• A ballad (2004)
• Improvisation on a triple theme: creativity, jazz improvisation and communication (2004)
• Old Louis (2005)
• Moments (2005)
• Long ago (2005)
• Snake talk (2005)
• At the waters edge (2005)
• January morning (2005)
• Ballad to an old bass (2005)
• Maybe (2005)
• Epitaph (2005)
• Hymn to grotesque beauty (2005)
• Bluza 33 (2006)
• Mellom panikk og kjedsomhet (2006)
• Improvisation, action learning and action research (2007)
• Beep (2008)
• Kyrie (2009)
• Songlines (2009)
• Kyrie (2009)
• Bird lovers (2009)
• Shailén (2009)
• Message from a sad dolphin (2009)
• Christmas song for children of Thelonious Monk (2010)

Discography

Solo albums

• Moments - (1979)
• A Ballad - (1986)
• Some Other Time, with Bjørn Johansen, Frode Thingnæs, Laila Dalseth, Ole Jacob Hansen and Egil Kapstad - (1991)
• Constellations - (1991)
• Steps Toward's a Dream, with Lee Konitz, John Pål Inderberg and Erling Aksdal Jr. - (1995)

With Bjørn Alterhaug Quintet

• Songlines (Ponca Jazz Records) - (2009)
• Innocent Play (Ponca Jazz Records) - (2014)

Collaborations

• Østerdalsmusikk, with Various Artists - (1975)
• Selena, with Ketil Bjørnstad - (1977)
• Til jorden, with Rolf Jacobsen and Egil Kapstad - (1979)
• Snjóuglan, with Snjóuglan - (1979)
• Frency only, with Åge Aleksandersen and Sambandet - (1979)
• Friends, with
  Johansens Quartet - (1980
  )
• Notice, with Thorgeir Stubø - (1981)
• Drøbak kassetten 1981, with Various Artists - (1981)
• Live at Jazz Alive, with Thorgeir Stubø - (1983)
• Norsk Jazz 1960-1980, with Various Artists - (1983)
• Veintetid, with Tove Karoline Knutsen - (1984)
• Epilog, with Egil Kapstad - (1985)
• For a Small Planet, with Trondheim Kammerkor - (1987)
• For the Time Being, with Warne Marsh - (1988)
• Fuglar, with Noble Noise - (1989)
• Blackbird, with Siri's Svale Band - (1990)
• The Jazz Sampler Vol. 2, with Various Artists - (1991)
• New Church Music from Nidaros Cathedral, with Various Artists - (1993)
• Remembrance, with Egil Kapstad Trio - (1993)
• Norske bilder - (1993)
• Pot's On, with Asmund Bjørken Sextet feat. Jan Erik Kongshaug - (1993)
• A Woman's Intuition, with Laila Dalseth - (1995)
• Min vemods fryd, with Jan Henrik Henriksen - (1996)
• Jazz Out of Norway, with Various Artists - (1996)
• Plays Norwegian Music, with Arctic Guitar Trio - (1996)
• Gemini - (1997)
• Notice/Live at Jazz Alive, with Thorgeir Stubø - (1997)
• Necessarily So..., with Siri's Svale Band - (1997)
• Over at Ola's, with
  Kevin Dean Quintet - (1997
  )
• Norsk tonekunst i kontraster, with Embla - (1998)
• Night Birds, with Totti Bergh - (1998)
• Gemini and Taurus - (1998)
• Round Chet's Midnight, with Hilde Hefte - (1999)
• Oslo Jazz Circle 50 år - (1999)
• Double Circle, with Ivar Antonsen - (1999)
• One of a Kind, with Laila Dalseth - (2000)
• Man, Woman and Child, with Tore Johansen - (2000)
• Early Years, with Ketil Bjørnstad - (2000)
• First Song, with Bodil Niska - (2000)
• Pictures, with Equilibrium - (2001)
• Playsong - (2001)
• Distant Reports - (2001)
• Advenio, with Vokal Nord - (2003)
• Hildes Bossahefte, with Hilde Hefte - (2003)
• Bjørn Johansen in Memoriam, with Various Artists - (2003)
• Wolfvoices, with Maiken Mathisen Schau - (2003)
• The Next Step, with Jon Larsen - (2003)
• Foot Prints - (2003)
• Wistful, with Hallgeir Pedersen Trio - (2004)
• Django Festival 3, with Various Artists - (2004)
• Blue, with Bodil Niska - (2004)
• Jazz Collection 1, with Various Artists - (2005)
• Like That, with Karin Krog and Tore Johansen - (2005)
• Sval draum, with John Pål Inderberg - (2005)
• Bluero, with Hallgeir Pedersen Trio - (2006)
• My Funny Valentine, with Chet Baker - (2006)
• On the Corner, with Hilde Hefte - (2006)
• Jazzsnadder, with Various Artists - (2007)
• Live in Oslo, with Lee Konitz and John Pål Inderberg - (2007)
• An Evening in Prague, with
  The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - (2007
  )
• Oslo Calling, with Karin Krog - (2008)
• Veckan 44, with Norsk/Svensk Cool Sextet - (2008)
• Arctic Bird, with Kjell Bartholsen - (2008)
• A Portrait of Jon Larsen, with Jon Larsen - (2009)
• Åge-boks 1, with Åge Aleksandersen - (2009)
• Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair, with Various Artists - (2009)
• Q (2009), with Henning Gravrok - (2009)
• Flight - (2010)
• Piano Pals (Ponca Jazz Records), with Oddbjørn Blindheim Trio - (2014)

References

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External links

• List of publications by Bjørn Alterhaug in BIBSYS (Norway)
• Bjørn Alterhaug Biografi - Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC-no
• Bjørn Alterhaugs label