Mikkel Flagstad
Mikkel Flagstad | |
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Birth name | Michael Flagstad |
Born | Oslo | 23 April 1930
Origin | Norway |
Died | 29 June 2005 Oslo | (aged 75)
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instrument(s) | Tenor saxophone |
Michael "Mikkel" Flagstad (23 April 1930
Career
Flagstad was raised in a musical family surrounded by future jazz talents like
He suffered from tuberculosis in 1954, and after convalescence in the country he slowed his music ministry. His film music for the Line was awarded with Buddyprisen in 1960, and he led his own Mikkel Flagstad Quintet including Atle Hammer (trumpet), Kjell Karlsen (piano), Erik Amundsen (bass) and Ole Jacob Hansen (drums), while he took dentist education. Flagstad was suffering from fear of flying and therefore avoided the so-called Bent Sølve Accident, the plane crash 1 May 1969 where the rest of the pop-jazz-orchestra of Bent Sølves were killed. The disease shortened his career in the early 1970s, then he suffered a stroke in 1990 and died of pneumonia in 2005.[2]
Honors
- 1960: Buddyprisen
Discography
- 1988: Oslo Jazz Circle Presents: Arvid Gram Paulsen, Mikkel Flagstad, Kristian Bergheim (Gemini Music)
- 2001: Portrait of a Norwegian Jazz Artist: Kjell Karlsen (Gemini Music)
References
- ^ "Jazz Musicians born on April 23". All About Jazz. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Mikkel Flagstad død". Dagsavisen. 17 July 2005. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
External links
- Mikkel Flagstad Biography at Ballade.no